Originally Posted by
masterthespian
Avios is currently giving a 40% bonus and Iberia has a nice sale on flights to Barcelona from NYC in January. I have 110000 amex mr and 120000 UR points currently.
Ideally, I want to transfer just enough mr points to get the round trip flight, but when I try to see how many points it will cost, it just says I don't have enough avios to complete the purchase(I have zero avios currently)
I am estimating I would need about 18k mr points to do this flight round trip(it's 109 dollars nonstop there, about 150 for the return) with the 40% avios bonus. Should I just convert like 15000 points now and if it says I need more, I can convert another 1000 points, and keep adding more points until it says I can make the purchase? Also, the nonstop 109 dollar flight that shows up on Iberia plus is actually an American airlines flight. I can still use avios for that flight correct?
Is the sale for
cash fares or
award flights with avios? For outright cash price at $109 - $150? (Mid winter is low season)
If the sale is for cash fares I would not automatically expect a sale with avios.
Just because a flight is for cash sale does not mean there is award availability.
An AA operated flight can be booked with avios, if there is award availability. Will be an AA flight number and not the IB codeshare flight number
https://www.iberia.com/us/iberiaplus/use-avios/
To me its showing NYC MAD (band 5) at 34,000 avios return, plus real taxes and possibly cash surcharges. (That may be incorrect) BCN may be different .
https://pointstobemade.boardingarea....-reward-chart/
Great Circle Mapper
https://upgradedpoints.com/best-ways...ia-plus-avios/