Help me get to japan!
 

Hi

I have seen that the bmi scheme does not have high taxes for award tickets. I wanted to go to japan (x2 tickets), and have only just joined the club with my welcome 1000 points. As ive seen, I need 70,000 each for ana to japan?

Which credit card offers and such would help me rack up these miles as quickly and easily as possible?

Would there be a way of maximising these tickets with stopovers and such?

Thanks!

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I think you might have missed something there. The fees they charge can be quite high.

Starting where?? And in what cabin?

Depends on where you are based but if you are trying to redeem only CC points for a trip to Japan odds are that bmi is not the correct program to go with.

Again, depends on where you are starting from.

AA has an award special:


http://www.aa.com/viewPromotionDetai...&_locale=en_US

It's from this page:

http://www.aa.com/AAdvantage/viewAir...false&from=Nav

Hi

sorry forgot to mention, from the uk

economy on ana i think?

really just looking for a way to take a 'free' run to japan

thanks

Just ran a quick comparison of some programs here and it looks like the US Airways cost is only 60K points in Y versus the 70K from bmi. They often have deals where buying the points is pretty cheap, though that's still probably about $600-700 in costs, plus the need to find award space. I'd probably go for 80K on US and get biz seats if you can; a much better value. Being in the UK means you won't be able to get the US credit card and such for bonus miles and the buy miles bonus right now is only for CC holders so not as great a deal, but still cheaper than buying the BD points. And the taxes/fees redeeming from US are much lower than redeeming from BD.

Only valid on the SFO-HND route operated by JAL and only for travel through the end of February.

Assuming you only have a UK address, this thread below will be most of value to you as far as CC offers. CC bonus offers don't tend to be nearly as generous in the UK and Europe. You mentioned 2 tickets - if you have a spouse or significant other that could apply for card(s) simultaneously that would help, of course.

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/miles...er-thread.html

This will inform your decision as to the best FF program along with the data that sbm12provided on redemption rates.

Just thought to add that Starwood AMEX does have an offer in the UK, though the 20K bonus in the above thread may not still be active (10K standard). However the recommendation to look at USAirways is good, and if you can get 20K Starwood points, that would transfer into 25K US miles, which would help.