AJLondon

Hmmm. You can get to OZ in paid F (albeit inflexible F) for about £4k-ish and for about £2.5k in J.

Given you spent just north of £1k and 100k miles, I personally would value the miles spent at just about £2k. You also have to account for the opportunity cost of the foregone miles that could have been earned on a long trip of this nature. Especially if you earn F mileage at the higher rate of 625%! That would work out to over 60k miles earned each way!!!

FlyingOnceMore

Agreed, when you start putting a value to miles used for a redemption, you must add to the equation the miles you would have earned, had you paid.

I do, however, have one personal exemption to this rule. If the price of said paid ticket is out of my league, I happily forget the above rule.

Traveloguy

Too true.... That said, I will be lucky to hit 55K now that my travel patterns have been significantly reduced so 625% not even vaguely possible.

In fact, I will be luck to hit even *G unless I switch a bit more business to *A. Problem is convincing other people around me. All my upcoming business travel is most likely to go to BA although LH is not completely out of the question.

kyushuman

Is this a "legal" routing for BKK-PEK:
BKK-SIN (LX or SQ F)
SIN-PVG (SQ F)
PVG-PEK (CA C or F)
Is there a segment or mileage limit when flying an indirect route? There is nothing available on BKK-PEK direct, so I'm looking at other options.

Also, do Diamond Club reps have availability on their computers for Air China flights? CA joined Star Alliance a month ago, and I haven't seen anyone who's redeemed on CA flights yet.
Thanks!

Airframe

I have now confirmed bookings as follows : -

MAN - FRA LH (C)
FRA - LAX LH (F)
LAX - LAS US (F)

and return both as 2 x one ways for 2 pax.

How do I make seat allocations on these flights ?

BMI call centre told me I needed to call airlines direct but when I called Lufthansa and gave the booking references they told me they cannot do it and I need to get BMI to make any seat allocations ?

The bookings have been confirmed for over a week now and show on checkmytrip.com but I guess they have not been ticketed yet as no E-Tix No.s are showing and miles and cash not yet been taken either. This is despite call centre telling me that any itinerary with US involved has to be ticketed immediately as they cannot hold US Flights. Not worried as the flights are over 6 months away but I would hate for US to cancel their portion and then have to take a less convenient connection.

Could the none ticketing reason by why I cannot make seat reservation with the airlines direct ?

redshift27

No.

Lufthansa should be able to allocate seats in F for you. I guess you had a bad agent. Phone again and ask again, if the Amadeus reference does not work use the specific Lufthansa one showing on checkmytrip. I would start the conversation with "I am flying in First with you and I want to allocate seats ...." not "I have made an award booking with bmi". Seize the high ground at the start!

Then you should phone bmi and harass them about the unticketed flight. It may be that a paper ticket is required for US - this was once the case but I thought no longer. A paper ticket would not show on checkmytrip but then the miles / cash would be deducted when it was issued.

xcalx

sorry cant help with seat allocation but was looking at this route and wondered what miles are required thanks cal

FlyingOnceMore

For a return ticket.

Miles only - 90k + taxes.
Cash & Miles - 50k + £280 + taxes.

The taxes will be high, an F ticket ex. UK connecting in FRA is expensive both in real tax and the fuel surcharges which an LH itinerary will incur.

Airframe

Yes taxes were high GBP 301.58 per pax.


I called again to LH and this time got a great agent who did all the necessary for me and even apologised for the previous agents poor response.^


Rang Bmi to find out about the ticketing issue and was told US is now an eticket so no problem there. Requested that they ticket asap as they cannot hold US Flights and I do not want to lose them. I was told this will be done.
If not done in a few days may try the Visa requirement line and see if this works.

Tiger_lily

Works every time for me

xcalx

thanks i wasnt aware i could add on LAX to LAS on the same award, would it be ok to have stopover in LAX then go to LAS

cmcbugg

yes - you can fly LHR - LAS (via FRA and with a stop over in LAX). If you book as two one ways you could have a stop over in both directions.

eg LHR-FRA-LAX(stop)-LAS and return
LAS-SFO(stop)-LHR
or even LAS-JFK(stop)-FRA-LHR

or something like that -- as long as the stopover is at a transfer point and not way out.

FlyerTalker46423

CPH - LHR - HKG (Stopover) - NRT

O/W Business Award in Aug

18,750 Miles + £127.50 Cash + .... wait for it.... £59.60 Tax

dodgeflyer

Two one-way's for two people.

LHR-FRA-JNB-CPT-FRA-LHR in C and F for the FRA-JNB segment.

87,500miles plus +app £600 + £500 taxes, dep 28/3 return 13/4.

Biggest gripe is that due to married segment logic I only get 1hr in FRA and ideally would like more. A much earlier flight is wide open but this only returned one available seat on the FRA-JNB segment.

Anyone knows if LH are leanient enough to space-available stand-by in at LHR?

Jaimito Cartero

My first reward booking.

CGK-SIN-CMB, in SQ First. 20k miles, OW. £57tax, plus credit card fee.

As someone used to booking in the US, it was certainly a different experience. It was a bit hard to understand the agent, but in the end it seems to have come out okay.