Hi,

I have about 75,000 miles that will expire by the end of this month. Ideally, I'd like to use them for travel on Emirates in an upper cabin. The problem is that I'm based in TLV.

I was hoping that Emirates will launch its TLV route soon, and that award buckets will be available, but this hasn't happened yet. If this won't be possible, what should be my course of action?

• Should I book award travel departing, say, AMM or CAI or LCA, in the hope of being able to change the departure airport to TLV once these flights begin? Is such a change even possible?
• Or should I settle instead for cheap awards on EasyJet later next year? This seems like a pretty poor value for miles, isn't is?
• Any other ideas I should consider?

Thanks a lot for your help,

Shuly