JP Miles Partner Redemption
#1
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JP Miles Partner Redemption
Hi,
Need some advice, I was looking to redeem JP miles to book BOM-LHR-BOM on 9W in Y, their website was showing the cost as 85k miles + ~INR 17k in taxes. I am not sure if it is worth it considering the taxes. Is there a better alternative to redeem with a partner airline on this sector, say Virgin or UA?
Thanks.
Need some advice, I was looking to redeem JP miles to book BOM-LHR-BOM on 9W in Y, their website was showing the cost as 85k miles + ~INR 17k in taxes. I am not sure if it is worth it considering the taxes. Is there a better alternative to redeem with a partner airline on this sector, say Virgin or UA?
Thanks.
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considering this, inr 17k for uk taxes is not a bad deal....
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agreed....in the past i used to take an extra flight from lhr-bru & spend the night in a hotel there just to save on the insane uk taxes....even with the flight & hotel it still came out a lot cheaper to fly out of bru instead....<br /><br />considering this, inr 17k for uk taxes is not a bad deal....
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Once again not sure about Jet policies but most airlines that allow online awards booking for partners will show routes on their metal first (no matter how many more stops / time it takes) and show partner options (even if they’re direct and faster) last. So partner bookings on their routes are always allowed - but that’s for the big 3 alliances. Jet may have different rules but I’ve never heard of this being the case.
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jet do have this rule in place & have had so for as long as i can remember....i've tried in the past to book award tickets on partner airlines on routes like del-dxb & del-lhr but jet wouldn't allow it saying that they don't allow their own miles to be used on routes that they operate on themselves....
Why would one credit miles to 9W? Unaware of options, trying for status (should be handful of people)?
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jet do have this rule in place & have had so for as long as i can remember....i've tried in the past to book award tickets on partner airlines on routes like del-dxb & del-lhr but jet wouldn't allow it saying that they don't allow their own miles to be used on routes that they operate on themselves....
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the last time i tried was a couple of years ago so don't know if this is a recent change but i have been denied multiple times in the past by the jp team stating that they don't allow this if they have their own flights flying the same route....
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Ditto - I've been presented with partner redemption itineraries on EK in the past where they've said that I'd need to make other arrangements for the BOM-DXB leg, since Jet operates their own flights on that route.
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Similarly right now with CX you can not earn and burn on HKG-India routes.
Other than CX(EK-JP partnership has ended) you can earn and burn on other carriers same routes as 9W. Like DEL-LHR on VS, India-AUH on EY.
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