BigEck Welcome to FT
Originally Posted by
BigEck
I have got 100K Club Carlson points achieved by staying in a Radisson Hotel for 10 weeks.
I would like to convert these points to air miles to enable me to take my better half somewhere "nice".
Can I convert all these points to air miles?
How do I get a "frequent flyer" number?
Is a frequent flier number mandatory?
Do I find a participating airline, select the flights required and buy as normal, except for using cash?
As above you would be better to buy the air fares with cash and use the points for a hotel. Far better value.
Frequent flyer programs are/can be complicated until you understand how they work
For the frequent flyer award flight you
buy from the airline web site/phone with ff miles. Award flights are limited and airline ffp release awards from 331/335 days out. Award flights can be very hard/impossible to get close to date a flight.
Some airlines have the option of paying a regular flight with miles instead of cash. These are often extremely very poor value and can be many times the mile cost of a normal award flight.
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/infor...help-here.html
Edit:
Looking at your profile I see you are in GB (Great Britain). More of a reason to the points for a hotel and buy the flights