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Old Jan 6, 2013, 5:41 am
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Lucrative runs that have been reported under £3/TP - current availability not guaranteed
Route | Booking class | Fare | Booking channel | TPs | £/TP | credit

American Airlines

SFO-LAX-MIA-CUN | A/A/I | £498 return | aa.com | 620 TPs | £0.80/TP | chris1979
ORD-STL-DFW-SJU | A/A/I | £458 return | aa.com | 520 TPs | £0.88/TP | timezonehopper
SFO-LAX-MIA-CUN-MIA-LAX-LAS | A/A/I/I/A/A | £581 round trip | aa.com | 620 TPs | £0.94/TP | courtster
AMS-LHR-LAX-SFO-JFK-LHR-AMS | I/I/A/A/I/I | £1641 round trip | aa.com | 630 TPs | £2.60/TP | mccorry
IST-LHR/LCY-JFK-EZE-MIA-LHR-IST | I/I/I/I/I/I | £2106 round trip | aa.com | 790TPs | £2.61/TP | nth_utsera_sth_utsera
45 day advance purchase required, minimum stay 7 days.

British Airways
LGW-MLA | R | £248 return | ba.com | 160 TPs | £1.55/TP | LDNConsultant
LGW-RAK | R | £280 return | ba.com | 160 TPs | £1.75/TP | mfgr
Book by 31/12/13 for this price.
JER-LGW-AMS | J/R | £259 return | ba.com | 160 TPs | £1.62/TP | joejet
LGW-JER | R | £181 return | ba.com | 80 TPs | £2.26/TP
LGW-AMS | R | £199 return | ba.com | 80 TPs | £2.49/TP
BRU-LHR//LCY-JFK-SEA (last bit on AA) and back | I/I/A | £1,529 return | probably have to phone up | 920 TPs | £1.66/TP | stifle
Outbound 12/4-27/4 or 25/6-24/8, min stay Sat night, ticket by 2/1/14

Royal Jordanian
BEY-AMM-AQJ | D | £255 return | rj.com | 160 TPs | £1.59/TP | DeanB

Malaysia Airlines
SIN-KUL-KCH | D | S$660 return | malaysiaairlines.com | 160 TPs | £2.12/TP |HPN-HRL
DEL-KUL-BKK | Z | INR41,666 return |malaysiaairlines.com | 360TPs| £1.15/TP| Seshy
DEL-KUL-NRT | Z | INR92,395 return |malaysiaairlines.com | 560TPs| £1.64/TP| Seshy
ICN-KUL-SYD/MEL | Z | KRW1,582,600 return |malaysiaairlines.com | 560TPs| £1.65/TP| armagebedar
SIN-KUL-DXB | Z | S$1084 return | malaysiaairlines.com | 360 TPs | £1.50/TP | qasr (+long haul equipment on KUL-DXB)
SIN-KUL-TPE | Z | S$1078 return | malaysiaairlines.com | 360 TPs | £1.49/TP | qasr
SIN-KUL-DEL | Z | S$1018 return | malaysiaairlines.com | 360 TPs | £1.41/TP | qasr
SIN-KUL-KTM | Z | S$1006 return | malaysiaairlines.com | 360 TPs | £1.39/TP | qasr

Qatar Airways
CAI-DOH-BKK | £759 return | D/D/D/A | 360 TPs | £2.10/TP ExpatSomchai
DME-DOH-SGN | I | £1255 return | qatarairways.com | 560 TPs | £2.25/TP |continentalclub
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Old Jan 18, 2013, 3:20 am
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Originally Posted by degreecy
Yes this is very tempting and yes making 15 trips to JER doesn't sound very appealing. I'll check that route out for Feb/March I think.
It's 16 trips to JER to make 1280 TP (unless positioning flights are counted?)
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Old Jan 18, 2013, 3:32 am
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Originally Posted by xenole
It's 16 trips to JER to make 1280 TP (unless positioning flights are counted?)
You are indeed correct.

15 trips to JER gives the same TPs as the HNL TP run, that's where I got the number 15 from!
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Old Jan 18, 2013, 4:06 am
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Originally Posted by degreecy
I'm left with needing 1280 points.
Since you only need 1280 points, then just a simple r/t should do it:

BRU-LHR-ORY-EWR-LAX-HNL, HNL-LAX-JFK-LCY//LHR-MAD-BRU: 1280 TPs £1792. £1.40/TP. If you start from BRU on Saturday morning, you could have all Sunday afternoon, Monday and Tuesday to spend in HNL, setting off Tuesday night and arriving back in BRU Thursday evening. Sounds like a delightful trip!
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Old Jan 18, 2013, 5:36 am
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EWR-JFK?
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Old Jan 18, 2013, 5:56 am
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Originally Posted by stifle
EWR-JFK?
...by taxi (?) = 0 TPs, 0 Avios

Unless angatol's planning to propose a quick trip to SCL and back in there somehow!
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Old Jan 18, 2013, 6:04 am
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Originally Posted by stifle
EWR-JFK?
Oops. Corrected.

I won't mind doing this trip myself actually. Don't think I could persuade the missus to come along though...
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Old Jan 18, 2013, 6:49 am
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Originally Posted by angatol
I won't mind doing this trip myself actually. Don't think I could persuade the missus to come along though...
Same here, actually, although I only need 900 TPs between now and September. Might be nice to have a mostly-redeem year and still be silver afterwards.
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Old Jan 18, 2013, 7:31 am
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May seem obvious with the flights in the sticky, but JER-LGW-RAK in R comes to 339 for 240 TP, making it a rather attractive 1.41 per TP.
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Old Jan 18, 2013, 7:44 am
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ATH-JFK 580 TPs, 28,236 Avios for £1,257
Here's a TP earner for those that can start from Athens - 580 TPs for £1,257 @ £2.17 per TP, not the lowest perhaps but it includes CWLCY flights.

ATH-LHR/LCY-JFK-LCY/LHR-ATH in CE and CWLCY; 80 TPs and 3,735 Avios each way between Athens and London, 210 TPs and 10,383 Avios each way between LCY and JFK, total 580 TPs and 28,236 Avios. (Avios calculated as silver.)

A compulsory <24 hour overnight in London is necessary westbound if you want to use BA1 and a <24 hour overnight in London is optional on the return.

I7 bookable until 5 February, complete travel by 30 Sept 2013. No >24 hour stopovers in London. Earliest return from JFK Sunday.
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Old Jan 18, 2013, 7:49 am
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Worth point out that the run fares to Caribbean/Central American destinations outside the US (ANU, BGI, PTY etc) are "proper" Business class I fares. If there is any rebooking you are more likely to be accomodated in the forward cabin rather than dumped in Y with a xUP fare.
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Old Jan 18, 2013, 8:32 am
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Originally Posted by Roger
Here's a TP earner for those that can start from Athens - 580 TPs for £1,257 @ £2.17 per TP
You can optimise this a little bit if you go to BOS instead:
ATH-LHR//LCY-JFK-ORD-BOS r/t 820 TPs for £1347 @ £1.64/TP
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Old Jan 18, 2013, 9:11 am
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Originally Posted by angatol
Code:
Travel restrictions
  VALID FOR TRAVEL COMMENCING ON/AFTER 09JAN 13 AND ON/
  BEFORE 30SEP 13.
Sales restrictions
  TICKETS MUST BE ISSUED ON/AFTER 02JAN 13 AND ON/BEFORE
  30JAN 13.
Damn you, hadn't realised the O/B travel window was so long - I'll now need to investigate!
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Old Jan 18, 2013, 10:25 am
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Also a nice little earner is to go to Thessaloniki via Jersey.

LGW - JER rtn (80 TP, £180)
JER - SKG rtn (via LGW) (240 TP, £314)

I make that 320 TP for £492, or £1.54 per TP.

Doing a similar routing to places like Dubrovnik, Bari, Verona, Pisa, Geneva etc all seem to return <£2 per point when routed via JER.

Would be a pain of course!
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Old Jan 18, 2013, 11:59 am
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Originally Posted by angatol
You can optimise this a little bit if you go to BOS instead:
ATH-LHR//LCY-JFK-ORD-BOS r/t 820 TPs for £1347 @ £1.64/TP
Brilliant, thanks!
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Old Jan 21, 2013, 1:45 pm
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All help appreciated. In Washington early March
Hi All,

I will be in Washington in early March visiting friends (LHR - IAD in Club, Avios upgrade from WT+ thanks to my education from FT!!!!!!) and have a few days spare between 3rd and 5th March for a TP run. No target for TP. Anything between 300 and 500 will be handy.

There are those on this forum with more expertise than me at sniffing out the best deals so all pointers appreciated. I've done a few TP runs in the last few years but has always taken me ages to work something out. I know about Instant Upgrade as that's what I've used, normally DCA to JFK and then on from there but no idea how to find the most lucrative routing!

Appreciate any help
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