Nelumbo

Is there foreign transaction fee charged for purchasing these miles when they are priced at ISK?

Tpa-flyer

When you say you were turned down, does this mean you never advanced to a confirmation page of the transaction? (I joined Saga yesterday and purchased miles this morning. I did get a confirm of the purchase, however the miles aren't in my account yet.)

Majikow

The purchase comes from points.com, so I don't think there is a transaction fee (and others have said the same). For 42,000 points my total came out to $542.

I got a confirmation on both purchases. However, when I went to the chat function at points.com and spoke with a rep, she said both transactions were declined because of the 10 day hold.

Tpa-flyer

I see. Given what happened to you, then, I'd predict I'll have the same outcome. Now I just have to decide if I should persevere given the time/legwork allotted to this deal already, or just pull the plug and forget the whole enterprise. One thing's for sure, at least when it comes to points/miles, the next good deal may not be on the next bus that comes around the corner, but eventually there'll be another one.

Majikow

I'm in the same boat. Can't decide if I want to keep at this. I found a great redemption in January, but then since last night when I wanted to book it, the departure is now gone. Not sure if I want to go in March.

Jared at Online Travel Review (who I think broke this deal), said in the comments of one of his posts that he reached out to IcelandAir and said this 10 day wait thing is a glitch in their system right now and we should be able to buy points. I guess it's going to get lifted in the near future so we should be able to buy points again.

Tpa-flyer

I appreciate this headsup via OTR. I'm going to give this some concerted thought but in a lot of ways, at least for me, the bloom is off the rose with mileage purchase complications. The airline rolled out their purchase bonus offer and customers are attempting to do business w/them. I congratulate those who were able to jump on this early on and make it happen for themselves. In this instance, I fear I'm an "also ran."

jblankoh

Hi - I'm Jared from OTR (perhaps I should change my FT handle).

In any case, to answer some concerns:

Their computers basically reinstated the 10 day hold without any warning. That was definitely not Icelandair's plan. They're trying to fix that problem - don't worry, it will be taken care of. They hope by tomorrow.

Tied in with this is an issue with points purchases/transfers that people have made in the past day or so -- some people have complained that their points have not posted. They know there is a problem, but it is not yet fixed.

They literally just told me that they're asking people not to purchase or transfer miles until they get this fixed (they hope tomorrow). I'll post again when it's working - no one will be charged for points they didn't receive.

On a positive note, the transfer and purchase bonus goes through September 28th. The folks over at Icelandair have been beyond overwhelmed, though I'm happy to say that most people have told me that the reps have been incredibly helpful.

poptarts

Do you mean $442?

Majikow

Nope. $542. Don't go off the Google calculation (which is messed up for some reason). I got thrown off by that at first too. When you do the conversion at one of the exchange websites it comes to about $528. Not sure where the extra $14 is coming from. Maybe they did charge a foreign exch fee. But my fee is only 1% on my VA Amex.

Red '74 TR6

So I just joined Saga Club for wife and myself. Would like to go to Iceland sometime next year, from Sacramento, or actually nearest hub which I believe is Seattle. <Just got confirmation of joining> Are we going to be able to buy enough points at a discount in order to fly 1st class from the West Coast?

samineni3

I tried to register for saga club, but got an error..i will try later

sktnyc

It's cheaper to use Alaska Air miles - 50K for Sacramento to Iceland. While with Iceland Air miles it is 70K for Seattle to Iceland (no Sacramento).

MVF Trekker

Would you be able to use these purchased miles to book an award through their subsidiary Air Iceland? I'm interested in traveling to Greenland.

mia

Begin reading here:

https://www.icelandair.us/frequent-f...redeem-points/

ducktape

If I want to use the miles on alaska, doe the flight have to be operated by Alaska or could it be a mix of Alaska and AA?