David, I am happy to share my finding: IB+ account needs some time to get activated after the actual earnings. For me, it took 3 days.
Last night I checked through Milan-Barcelona, the price is quoting like above, I did a search just now, it's showing me "Reward Flight Saver" and quoting a total payment of 9,000 Avios + 35 .00 € for MXP-MAD/MAD-BCN on IB BlueClass and 4500 Avios + 17.50 € for a vueling flight.
Well I still don't understand how the 9000 avios comes but at least Reward Flight Saver applies!
Originally Posted by
vincentliu
Thanks David. I think I just brought this up in another thread last night. FYI, the weird thing is that I do have some points transferred from ACCOR in my IB+ account 3 days ago. It's still quoting me on this Vueling flight as previously mentioned.
As for the Reward Flight Saver, I've been looking into this for the last several days. To my understanding, my itinerary MXP-BCN could be "broken" into:
MXP-MAD IB3251(operated by IB)
MAD-BCN IB6772(operated by IB)
with total payment: 7500 Avios + €17.5
(Well I thought this should've been 4500 Avios, but I did search on gcmap, which gave me 715 mi for MXP-MAD)
BUT,BUT! iberia.com is quoting me 9,000 Avios + 67 .30 € for this route!
And, did you mean that if my IB+ account is active, the redemption for a vueling flight would also be 4500 avios + €17.5 ?
And allow me to move my post in the other thread here:
Take another route, GRX-FCO, for example:
GRX-MAD/MAD-FCO costs 15,187 Avios + 53 .70 € on iberia.com
same route costs 7500 Avios + less than 20 € on BAEC and avios.com