EY have denied me lounge access twice, even though it says so on the Intermiles site. EY says they have no control over what Intermiles puts on their website.

AFAIK Intermiles' "partnership" with EY ended a few months after 9W dissolved. I don't think EY cared about renewing it at all for a million reasons. I'm surprised Intermiles still carries EY benefits on their website. The only benefit that Intermiles today carries is that EY flights are the cheapest to redeem (but still terrible value).

And do they give any excess baggage allowance? That's what I am mainly looking for.

I didn't need that so never checked. But if its mentioned on the EY website then they will allow it. If it is only mentioned on the Intermiles website then they won't.

I got priority check-in and lounge access (In BOM and AUH) with Intermiles Platinum in June. I'm flying EY tomorrow, I can ask the check-in agent if they still honour it but it seems unlikely since all the EY awards have disappeared from the Intermiles website as well.

The EY website does not mention Intermiles or even JPPL anywhere. I found that quite strange.

Any update from the check in agent? Thanks

Yes they said Intermiles is no longer an Etihad partner

CC Miles for BLR-MIA-NYC-BLR?
 

Hi Folks,

I am not that frequent Traveller but travelled to Europe, USA, Far East, Middle East and other countries. I have Yes Private Miles (about 2100k), HDFC DCB miles (about 100k), Axis (about 160k) can some of the experts help as I intend to travel for vacation in may end to USA and wanted to utilize CC Miles usefully to grab 4 seats. Want to travel premium eco but if the deal is good will take business, please suggest options.

Regards
B

Yeah so OP... 4J seats will be near impossible. 4 PE seats will be probably just as difficult. But you might have a ton of miles that works in your favour - I don't know as yet. I couldn't find any information on how these Yes miles translates to airlines miles. At least the first link I clicked on showed me a bunch of nonsense I don't care to know about yes bank. Can you share a a link to how that translates to airmiles and with whom?

yes miles can be changed to Vistara Miles and Intermiles with ratio 4:1 (4 yes miles to 1 vistara miles) I couldn’t find any airline partner.

So firstly you don't have a lot of miles so you will have taper down your expectations significantly.

Here are the options I could think of:
1. With AF you will have 260k miles. You could get 2 award tickets in PE for BLR-MIA & JFK-BLR in that. The rest you will have to pay cash for. Or you could get 4 award tickets in PE for BLR-MIA (or on the return) and buy the remaining as one ways with cash. You could potentially use the UK miles to buy UA awards on the MIA-EWR leg but that would not be good value.

2. With UA you have 210k miles. You could get 2 award tickets in Y for BLR-MIA, MIA-EWR, NYC-BLR. And buy the rest with cash. This should cost you 176k miles or so. So you could use the balance to buy 1-2 MIA-EWR award tickets in Y if possible.

You will have to check which route economics and other factors work best for you. Depending on how you look at your miles - just to burn, or to extract X value etc. would be a personal choice. But these are the only options I could think of.

1. How do i convert to AF miles from Yes Miles (Vistara or Intermiles and is it worth), HDFC DBC i can convert to AF, i am FlyingBlue Silver with about 30k miles

2. same for UA also.

If Yes miles only convert to Vistara & Intermiles, you cannot use it with AF. If you have more miles with AF & UA that will help you. Search for suitable dates. Get your options And after that if you need further help/suggestions share your questions here.

Got an email that my 30k leftover miles expire tomorrow. Can't book any tickets with it so what are my other options?