Originally Posted by
sarabeargoesthere
Please bear with me...I still can't wrap my head around this stuff and my husband is no help.
We have about 73K ultimate rewards points and are trying to maximized them for our trip to Italy this summer. We have to go at a specific time because we have a wedding in Verona.
I was thinking of transferring the points to Virgin Atlantic.
We can fly from JFK - LHR for 40K + $297.80
Then we will take a domestic flight from LHR - FCO (Rome)which I found for $188 TOTAL
So going that we are at 40K miles + $485.80
Then on the way home basically the same thing but from Milan or Verona. But since we don't have enough miles we will probably pay more out of pocket to get home.
Or we can fly Norwegian from EWR - FCO Direct for $639.80 TOTAL - Which now that I'm reading what I wrote it seems like the smarter and simpler way to go.
Then I guess we can fly the Virgin Atlantic way home from Milan or Verona.
However, I have no experience with Norwegian and is there anyway we can us our 73K ultimate rewards points for this flight?
Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.
Is the Norwegian Air flight cost for round trip tickets?
You can't transfer UR points to Norwegian Air but - if you wanted to - you could pay for the tickets using a Chase card and then redeem your UR points for cash back on your statement (73K points would net you a statement credit of $730.00). Thus, you'd basically pay for your Norwegian tickets using the UR points you have.
(I will note that the 1 cent per point that you get for redeeming cash back is not considered a "good value" redemption amongst most of the members on this forum but it seems to check the box for what you're trying to accomplish, especially given that you're trying to travel during peak travel season.)
Good luck.