Taxes on Frequent Flyer Ticket !
Dec 5, 2011 | 7:28 am
#1
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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...
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...
Dec 5, 2011 | 12:24 pm
#2
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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.
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.
Dec 5, 2011 | 4:09 pm
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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.
I am not fixatated on redeeming points, yes nice to redeem for expensive premium travel but not for economy.
Dec 7, 2011 | 1:43 am
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Dec 7, 2011 | 5:15 am
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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
Dec 8, 2011 | 12:27 am
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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.