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Originally Posted by taliesin
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No, not so easy, given the current 40% transfer bonus from Amex MR to BA Avios (assuming that one is a U.S. cardholder).
And if flying on BA, I probably wouldn't bother with Business Class. BA's Club Europe service has recently been downgraded, and now features markedly reduced pitch between rows.
Hmm, forgot about the transfer bonus. Yeah ideally you would transfer to BA and thence to IB, and take advantage of the transfer bonus and also IB's lower fuel charges when flying IB metal. But to do that both your BA and IB accounts must be three months old, and I doubt OP meets that requirement. If so, great, if not it's a question of whether saving the 6000 or so MR points is worth the $50 difference in fuel charges. I suppose it probably is.
I don't think that the cash components would be any higher on BA. A Reward Flight Saver RAK-LON should cost 10K Avios + $27 per person in Coach; an RFS LON-GVA should cost 4.5K Avios + $27 per person in Coach. The only tricky part is that the two RFS redemptions
might have to be booked separately, so there could be an issue in the event of IRROPS. Of course, the travelers might want to stop over for a day or more in the U.K.
