Emirates & Booking.com Team Up
Oct 4, 2017 | 9:59 am
#2
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: Economy, mostly :(
Programs: Skywards Gold
Posts: 7,791
Typical!
You book your holiday and then this shows up.
Great initiative.
Would be cool to see one use their skywards miles to redeem nights.
You book your holiday and then this shows up.
Great initiative.
Would be cool to see one use their skywards miles to redeem nights.
Oct 4, 2017 | 11:11 am
#3
Join Date: Jan 2015
Programs: EK Silver, BA Blue, MH Blue
Posts: 46
At a rate of 1 euro = 1 Skyward mile, it is probably not going to divert any hotel spend away from existing channels, but if you were going to use booking.com anyway, seems like a helpful way to pick up a handful of miles here and there.
Oct 4, 2017 | 2:25 pm
#4
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Europe
Programs: EK plat, ex-FB gold, Accor plat
Posts: 1,074
Thanks SCOTTY for the info.
Going via EK website, booking.com recognized me.
Nevertheless :
> "genius" discount doesn't seem to appear
> 1 mile for 1 euro is very expensive. I get 500 miles whenever I rent a car, and I don't pay 500 euros ... Anyway, you are right, one mile gained is better than nothing.
Going via EK website, booking.com recognized me.
Nevertheless :
> "genius" discount doesn't seem to appear
> 1 mile for 1 euro is very expensive. I get 500 miles whenever I rent a car, and I don't pay 500 euros ... Anyway, you are right, one mile gained is better than nothing.
Oct 4, 2017 | 2:29 pm
#5
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: Economy, mostly :(
Programs: Skywards Gold
Posts: 7,791
As I mentioned you can use Rocket Miles, I think the lowest earning is 500 miles, with many properties being higher, and it has pretty much the same inventory as booking.com (I think they plug into their backend engine). Discussion here: Rocket Miles - Earn and Burn
Oct 5, 2017 | 1:30 am
#6
Join Date: Jul 2016
Programs: Skywards Gold
Posts: 112
As I mentioned you can use Rocket Miles, I think the lowest earning is 500 miles, with many properties being higher, and it has pretty much the same inventory as booking.com (I think they plug into their backend engine). Discussion here: Rocket Miles - Earn and Burn
But, redeeming skywards on booking.com is quite low
For the same place in VA I was booking:
Skywards on booking.com 587
Skywards on Rocketmiles 3500 (without promo)