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Originally Posted by ukdoctor (Post 22807490)

Sometimes you get incredibly cheap deals ex India. Sometimes it can be 50 % of the ex Uk fare. Obviously I have to travel to India first .

Its usually cheaper to buy a J out Y in ticket ex Uk. I then throw away the Y ticket once I reach India.Then buy a J return from India and come back to the UK. The return To India is used to go back to India.

gotcha, very nice ^

do you have a lot of planned travel to Ind? or is the bold part a flex ticket where you can keep changing dates into the future? I would assume not since the itinerary is already in progress, but that'd be dope.

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Originally Posted by sadiqhassan (Post 22784974)

I seriously doubt it will cause any problems.

I once had a ticket IAD-DXB-KHI with a stopover in DXB. My plans changed and I needed to go to KHI earlier than planned but there were no seats on EK so I tossed DXB-KHI and bought a ticket on another airline. I figured I wouldn't get the miles for IAD-DXB-KHI since the miles are only given once you complete the trip. However, to my surprise, miles for IAD-DXB posted a little while later despite me skipping a part of the ticket.

It seems that EK is now automatically crediting miles if the final leg goes to waste, unused. It used to be that you had to call them and ask for manual crediting; not anymore.