Taxes on Frequent Flyer Ticket !
 

Once again I find myself upset with Royal Jordanian.

I am looking into book a ticket using the 100,000 miles I have on RJ which they have made impossible to use.

They constantly find problems with my proposed bookings i.e. no flights available, partner airline only allows roundtrip tickets...

This time I am looking at a ticket for Tel Aviv to Paris for 22,000 points. They told me taxes were going to be $150. Then they changed their mind and move it up to $273!

Does anyone else find this to be a ridiculous price? This is $273 of tax on a one way ticket! I could buy a whole ticket for almost that price.

Anyone have any suggestions what I should do with my miles? They seem to be a liability...

Only allowing round trip flights is actually quite common. I would guess most carriers actually don't allow one-ways.

The taxes are indeed high but again not unheard of. I would just call again and get a breakdown of those taxes. Maybe they change their mind and they will come down to $150.

And with some airlines I frequently had situations where miles actually had negative value. In other words, the taxes I was supposed to pay on an award ticket where higher than what it would have cost to just buy a revenue ticket (which is what I end up doing). So yes, this can happen, not just with RJ but with many airlines.

If there is not much differential in cost to a revenue ticket I would just buy one and credit to anotehr program.
I am not fixatated on redeeming points, yes nice to redeem for expensive premium travel but not for economy.:eek:

So this means I will not be able to book an RTW ticket using miles, since only round trip flights are allowed? :confused:

Each frequent flyer programme has its own rules - you need to look at the rules of the programme/s you are enrolled in

Some allow one-way flights, some don't
Some have round-the-world award flights, some don't

I know nothing of the RJ FF programme, but I do know that:

• QF has a RTW award and 1-way awards and I think return awards too
• AA has 1-way awards and also has what it calls a Oneworld award, which allows plenty of stopovers and is distance based (longer distance = more FF miles required), but it does not require the trip be round-the-world

Note that there is no oneworld alliance-wide award - each airline has its own

Qantas' "oneworld" award does not have to be taken as an "around the world" journey. You could conceivablly circumnavigate the Pacific Ocean twice without ever visiting Europe or Africa.