Award Zone Jumping
Apr 27, 2002 | 3:00 am
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Award Zone Jumping
Does anybody know of any permitted zone jumps from the UK to take advantage of the 1 stopover allowed within the rules?
Apr 29, 2002 | 2:52 am
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by TRESY:
Does anybody know of any permitted zone jumps from the UK to take advantage of the 1 stopover allowed within the rules?</font>
Does anybody know of any permitted zone jumps from the UK to take advantage of the 1 stopover allowed within the rules?</font>
It's a little difficult to give you an answer given that you haven't provided a destination (to tell me which zone you want to end up in) - however the very basic answer is that if you wish to 'zone jump', then you will have to use the number of points required for the higher zone.
The only exception to this is 'unless a connection can only be made on Qualiflyer Partner airlines via this further zone'.
That being said, you are permitted a maximum of 8 sectors on a reward ticket (with some expections such as you cannot stopover at the same place twice etc). A stopover only counts if it is longer than 24 hours.
If you were flying from the UK, then a sample itinerary, for Zone 1 (UK to Europe/Northern Africa) could take you:
London-Warsaw (LOT) - Budapest (LOT) - Zurich (Swiss) - Lisbon (Swiss) - London (TAP).
Other combinations are possible and perhaps other Flyertalkers will give you some suggestions if you want.
Hope this has been of some help.
WG
Apr 29, 2002 | 6:37 am
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An excellent short summary of what one can do, LHR/MEL/Europe FF. Does anyone realise how impossible such a thing is with other FFPs, such as Air France's completely useless Frquence Plus, which divides Europe into separate zones? I have posted a major grumble on the Air France forum about how you cannot book anything remotely out of the ordinary with Frquence Plus. If anyone can correct me, I would be glad.
May 1, 2002 | 12:57 am
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As another example, on a standard ZRH-NRT return reward, we did:
MAN-ZRH(24 hour "connection")-NRT(turnaround)-ZRH-LIS(stopover)-MAN
We were trying for the algarve too, but the system recognised ...ZRH-LIS-FAO-LIS-MAN as a side trip, worse luck! However, if we'd been willing to travel in one of the PGA sardine-cans, ..ZRH-LIS-FAO-MAN would have been a valid add on, as I understand it.
Due to the nature of the flights to Singapore, doing both BKK and SIN in one award is "easy-peasy" http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif You can then get creative with your return routing if you want http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif
There is no doubt that QG's reward structure is one of the best for such "grand tours"!
Ken.
"That's OK, I've still got 3 spare segments to use"
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MAN-ZRH(24 hour "connection")-NRT(turnaround)-ZRH-LIS(stopover)-MAN
We were trying for the algarve too, but the system recognised ...ZRH-LIS-FAO-LIS-MAN as a side trip, worse luck! However, if we'd been willing to travel in one of the PGA sardine-cans, ..ZRH-LIS-FAO-MAN would have been a valid add on, as I understand it.
Due to the nature of the flights to Singapore, doing both BKK and SIN in one award is "easy-peasy" http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif You can then get creative with your return routing if you want http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif
There is no doubt that QG's reward structure is one of the best for such "grand tours"!
Ken.
"That's OK, I've still got 3 spare segments to use"
"I've never heard anyone put it that way before!" - TC Booking centre http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif