Need help - award ticket to europe
Jun 28, 2004 | 1:08 pm
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Need help - award ticket to europe
I have 90000 skymiles and my wife has 70000. I also have about 16900 SPG points that I can transfer to her delta account. Two business class tickets to europe is 90000 skymiles each. One option is to buy 3100 SPG points and transfer to her delta account. It costs 175 bucks - is there another way to make those 3100 points? The other option is to buy two round trip fares and upgrade to business class. What would you do?
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Jun 28, 2004 | 1:15 pm
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Originally Posted by nirvana
I have 90000 skymiles and my wife has 70000. I also have about 16900 SPG points that I can transfer to her delta account. Two business class tickets to europe is 90000 skymiles each. One option is to buy 3100 SPG points and transfer to her delta account. It costs 175 bucks - is there another way to make those 3100 points? The other option is to buy two round trip fares and upgrade to business class. What would you do?
Thanks.
Thanks.
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Jun 28, 2004 | 3:16 pm
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Jun 28, 2004 | 6:38 pm
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Originally Posted by hongkongphuey
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Jun 28, 2004 | 6:50 pm
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Jun 28, 2004 | 6:52 pm
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Buy the points
Originally Posted by nirvana
One option is to buy 3100 SPG points and transfer to her delta account. It costs 175 bucks - is there another way to make those 3100 points? The other option is to buy two round trip fares and upgrade to business class. What would you do?
Thanks.
Thanks.
Upgrading from selected fare to business require a 25K miles one way. a total of 100k miles for just an upgrade
Jun 29, 2004 | 7:37 am
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Thanks for the suggestions folks.
The miles can be bought at a cheaper price from delta but that would exclude the possibility of getting the 5000 bonus miles from SPG when 20000 miles are transferred.
LemonThrower - Yup, its been upped to 90K now.
For those who have travelled on Air France Business class across the atlantic - is it very different from the Delta Business Elite? Last year we travelled on Delta B/E and it was great but we have been told that the regular business class does not come close.
The miles can be bought at a cheaper price from delta but that would exclude the possibility of getting the 5000 bonus miles from SPG when 20000 miles are transferred.
LemonThrower - Yup, its been upped to 90K now.
For those who have travelled on Air France Business class across the atlantic - is it very different from the Delta Business Elite? Last year we travelled on Delta B/E and it was great but we have been told that the regular business class does not come close.