Originally Posted by
jackowilkinson
Hi all,
I need 205 TPs before my year end to retain gold.
I need to be in New York on 27/28th February, so I was thinking to try and make it into a TP run.
Does anyone have any creative suggestions - the base LHR-JFK return is £275 at the moment netting only 40 TPs. Because of the Saturday night rule, I will have to depart US on 3rd March, so have 1st and 2nd for any positioning flights.
Your advice would be greatly appreciated as always!
Thanks
Not sure what your budget is, but we found Turin > JFK to be the cheapest via LHR.
Deoending on which flights you book, you can connect via LGW on the way out (taking a position flight from LHR or wherever to Turin), then on the way back you can connect coming in to LHR from JFK and out of LGW to Turin. This would mean you could fly in to LHR, collect bags and then drop the final sector.
That woukd give 40 + 140 + 140 if booked in business so 320 total. It was about £1200 for the dates I was looking at. If you took the whole trip I think it’s about £3.33 per TP so a bit pricey.
There might be options to optimise better!