How to get ~ 1900 miles
 

Hi folks,

I have approx 68100 miles in my Skywards account..
With my current project and location, there is no way to earn more miles by travelling on EK in the near future ..

Some of my miles are expiring this year and hence I wanted to use these..

From my base location (CCU), 70k miles takes me to western europe and I am few miles short..

Anyway to get ~ 1900 miles without flying ? and nope, I don't have EK CC.

Seek advise..
A

Buy them?

2,000 miles @ USD 80

Or you can transfer miles from someone else. 2000 will be $50. It's cheaper than buying them.

Do you have any hotel stays coming up.? There are quite a few hotels which give 500 miles per stay.Or you can apply for spg membership, get the star points and transfer them to skywards miles.

hotel stays are only viable if you were planning to stay there anyway.

however spg recently sent me an email giving me 4000 bonus star points per stay up to 12000 star points if i stay in their hotels irrespective of the hotel

there are several hotels in India which cost less than $50 and 4000 star points which are equal to around 5000 skywards miles is a bargain for less than $50.

Ah, clever:p

So you have to stay there right? You can't just incur a cost of $50 for 5000 miles can you?

Still cheaper than the $200 that EK wants for 5000 miles:D

Thanks for the detailed info.. Need some further help since am not clear..
I am a SPG member ( had 2 stays last year of 2 nights each and had transferred the points to M&M)..

We earn 2 star points per USD spent at hotels from what I see in their site .. Is there any minimum earning of 500 miles as you say or are these for specific hotels only ?
Also, i checked the transfer to airline miles info and seems starpoints to emirates is a 1:1 transfer and not 1:1.25 as you say ?

Am presently in bangkok for few months so no option for India hotels but Bkk hotels surely ..
Am a novice in this .. seek advise..

I think this is your best option for getting miles quickly.

Miles not expiring very soon, so not looking at a very quick option.. something to make it in 2/3 months would do too :)

The 500 miles I had mentioned was directly with skywards .
(Hilton for example) and not via spg. At the Hilton I give my skywards number and
500 miles credit for each stay


The. 5000 bonus miles is when you convert star points to skywards miles
In tranches of 20000. That means 20k star points is equal to 25k skywards.

Is this a targeted offer ?

Could be targeted. I joined spg 5 months ago when the Uk amex spg card was giving 20000 starpoints for joining. I had not booked any spg hotels for the first few months and got the offer I mentioned. I think it was valid for upto 3 stays till feb 2013.

good welcome bonus :)..
thanks for the info..

Don't forget there's a 5% discount for making redemption bookings online (or is this no longer valid in 2013?) - you could require less miles that way. Or fly to Europe (East), or from DEL instead of CCU from where I think mileage requirement is lower (if all else fails)