115,292 Guest Miles for LHR-AUH??
Hi,
I am currently sitting on loads of UK Amex Membership Reward points and would like to redeem on a one-way from LHR to AUH on EY in June. The Etihad website is giving me a price of 115.292 miles one-way for 1 pax in business, 58,896 in economy. I can't get any information about taxes displayed because I don't have any miles in my account. Is this really the correct pricing? Seems like a lot. Any better ways to book that flight using a different Amex partner? Thanks |
Originally Posted by petter2
(Post 33100181)
Hi,
I am currently sitting on loads of UK Amex Membership Reward points and would like to redeem on a one-way from LHR to AUH on EY in June. The Etihad website is giving me a price of 115.292 miles one-way for 1 pax in business, 58,896 in economy. I can't get any information about taxes displayed because I don't have any miles in my account. Is this really the correct pricing? Seems like a lot. Any better ways to book that flight using a different Amex partner? Thanks Cheapest option by far is transferring your miles to SQ and booking LH/LX to DXB for 29,000 miles in business. Loads of LX availability in June after lockdown is supposed to lift. Tax & surcharges is £353 (of which £180 is the UK APD). To be honest I think the best deal (assuming you will be actually doing a return) would be BA premium economy revenue booking for £650. 24,000 BA miles each direction for the upgrade to business (many options available). Make sure you choose the A350 flight with the club suite with closing doors and direct aisle access. You will also earn miles for the PE revenue class (about 7000 miles). This same BA method could be used for a one-way but that would cost £480 for the revenue ticket. |
Thanks, so it's not just me!
There are some really cheap options with Wizz Air via SKG, ATH and SOF, coming to less than £50 each way, so I booked that for the way back with a 2-day stopover in SKG. |
Originally Posted by petter2
(Post 33100972)
Thanks, so it's not just me!
There are some really cheap options with Wizz Air via SKG, ATH and SOF, coming to less than £50 each way, so I booked that for the way back with a 2-day stopover in SKG. For the one-way then I would use SQ miles to do the LX option to DXB (and then head over to AUH). Starting your trip outside of UK (e.g. Booking ZRH-DXB direct) will save about £200 in the APD and taxes as well. |
Originally Posted by pogonation
(Post 33100241)
It should be 62,500 but I am also seeing 115,292 which is a bit odd. Either way, EY is a rip off and I would not recommend using them on this booking. Taxes & surcharges would be around £400.
Cheapest option by far is transferring your miles to SQ and booking LH/LX to DXB for 29,000 miles in business. Loads of LX availability in June after lockdown is supposed to lift. Tax & surcharges is £353 (of which £180 is the UK APD). To be honest I think the best deal (assuming you will be actually doing a return) would be BA premium economy revenue booking for £650. 24,000 BA miles each direction for the upgrade to business (many options available). Make sure you choose the A350 flight with the club suite with closing doors and direct aisle access. You will also earn miles for the PE revenue class (about 7000 miles). This same BA method could be used for a one-way but that would cost £480 for the revenue ticket. |
Originally Posted by petter2
(Post 33100181)
Hi,
I am currently sitting on loads of UK Amex Membership Reward points and would like to redeem on a one-way from LHR to AUH on EY in June. The Etihad website is giving me a price of 115.292 miles one-way for 1 pax in business, 58,896 in economy. I can't get any information about taxes displayed because I don't have any miles in my account. Is this really the correct pricing? Seems like a lot. Any better ways to book that flight using a different Amex partner? Thanks if you have some miles you can test this out for short haul routes, or at least that is what I found. Maybe worth a call to them to see what the real rate is |
Originally Posted by wsc
(Post 33105577)
hi - when you say LH/LX to dubai, is that starting from Frankfurt / Geneva to Dubai? Or is there London to dubai availability with SQ somehow?
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Originally Posted by pogonation
(Post 33106640)
Connections are included so you can use your SQ miles to go from anywhere in Europe for 29,000 miles. LHR-ZRH-DXB for example can easily be found and booked through the SQ website using miles.
Finding first class via this route is impossible I assume? I checked with no luck. |
Can UK Amex transfer to Aeroplan? They show Etihad availability at reasonable rates I've found.
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Originally Posted by wsc
(Post 33107310)
Great thanks, finding decent availability.
Finding first class via this route is impossible I assume? I checked with no luck. So yes the best option is LX in business LHR-ZRH-DXB. |
Originally Posted by wsc
(Post 33107310)
Great thanks, finding decent availability.
Finding first class via this route is impossible I assume? I checked with no luck. I thought I also read somewhere that SQ has no F until May of 2022? |
Originally Posted by petter2
(Post 33100181)
Hi,
I am currently sitting on loads of UK Amex Membership Reward points and would like to redeem on a one-way from LHR to AUH on EY in June. The Etihad website is giving me a price of 115.292 miles one-way for 1 pax in business, 58,896 in economy. I can't get any information about taxes displayed because I don't have any miles in my account. Is this really the correct pricing? Seems like a lot. Any better ways to book that flight using a different Amex partner? Thanks Yes just checked and confirmed that it is doing the taxes via miles, I believe that if you call you can pay the taxes as cash instead else use the slider in the payment field to reduce the miles to roughly that shown here and pay £337 in cash https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...1f19a14a96.jpg |
HAHA Just checked and for the same miles, 62k, and £532 in cash you can fly first ! That's only 200 quid for the upgrade which would be worth it in the old days - I just don't know what EY first looks like right now !
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Originally Posted by atsak
(Post 33107327)
Can UK Amex transfer to Aeroplan? They show Etihad availability at reasonable rates I've found.
And looks like Etihad is scrapping most of F... very sad, I wanted to try it out, looked amazing! |
Originally Posted by wsc
(Post 33122964)
Unfortunately not!
And looks like Etihad is scrapping most of F... very sad, I wanted to try it out, looked amazing! |
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