I think the rate is 20k, you saved 5k miles nonetheless! That is a great deal.

Is it also possible to redeem miles for jet airways flights? And what are the redemption levels?

I called the tollfree number today. I wanted to fly BR from CDG-TPE but the agent could only see the schedule, it is not bookable. He advised me to call again tomorrow and maybe it will be bookable in their system. On United's website, there's at least one saver seat available. Could it be that EVA Air is not releasing award seats to TK? Or TK not having access to BR?

Yesterday I successfully issued my second Star Alliance award ticket. FRA-HND in All Nippon Airways First Class for 65700 miles + €87,07 in taxes. Sadly it took the staff at the Frankfurt ticket office 5 hours to figure out how to issue the ticket, and I had to sit around and wait the whole time.

Why the low tax/no YQ amount?

Maybe this was the part that caused the troubles at TK ticket office.

YQ is capped by the Japanese government on flights to/from Japan. @:-)

Took the same flight last year but redeemed A3 miles.
Taxes are
Germany Airport Security Charge (DE)
€9.56
Germany Air Transport Tax (OY)
€41.99
German Passenger Service Charge (RA)
€33.61
NH YQ surcharge (YQ)
€1.92

Enjoy the flight LH4116!

ANA doesn't take out fuel surcharges at the moment, but they will begin at the end of this month. Currently the YQ is €2 which only covers the insurance cost, and it will soon be raised to €30 per segment to include a fuel surcharge.

I booked TK home with a friend's expiring miles, and the taxes set me back around €56. Had I chosen TK on the outbound it would have cost me around four times as much.

25 USD.
Overdraft works for *A awards too. Mixed cabin doesn't work, and there's no way to chose an extended layover in Frankfurt since the system will only allow the shortest connection.

Mixed feelings
 

I booked a Star award with TK miles for the first time. One-way, JFK-TLV, on Lufthansa, in business class.

The good: I called the TLV city office for the booking. On two out of three calls, they answered immediately. They were competent and completed the transaction smoothly. The reservation can be held for a few days without ticketing. 47K miles for this trip isn't bad.

The bad: I class availability as shown on ExpertFlyer.com does not match the availability they see. They offered me way fewer options than I expected. Once a booking is made, they e-mail you forms which you have to fill in and e-mail back (they won't take a credit card number over the phone). Once confirmed, you get an e-mail with the TK reference number but no Amadeus PNR (so no way to access the reservation on lh.com, for example).

The worst: they managed to screw up my reservation somehow, and if I hadn't found out I'd be stuck without a ticket. I called back and they fixed it within a few hours.

In sum, less smooth than booking a TK award online, but still didn't require too much effort and I'm happy with the results.

Shuly

You can get the Lufthansa PNR either by calling them, or using the manage my booking feature on SWISS website, where you enter the ticket number. Also since TK use married segments, the number of connections will be limited to only the shortest connection.

Anybody has recent experience in redeeming *A ticket through the YUL or YYZ office?

Thanks.

My experience:
made the reservations over the phone on a Sunday.
1 *A Award on United, 1 ¨*A Award on Ethiopian and one award on TK
Answered immediately, reservation made swiftly, confirmation emails received.
Agent was unable to tell me the tax/YQ on the *A awards.

On Monday I went to the TK offcice in Chicago (city not airport). Very friendly but the process is very slow: first they have to look up the taxes, write it down, add it up, make me pay (cash or CC).
Then they have to issue the tickets, it took 2 people and 20 minutes to issue them, while I had to hear "Ethiad is not part of Star Alliance" (ET= Ethiopian...:mad:). All well in the end.

They said the software is being renewed but if I wouldn't hold my breath.

Not so smooth after all: just found out they took miles for a return out of my account, not 50% for a one-way. I'll report on the struggle to get them back...

Thanks Ghentleman for sharing your experience.

I emailed the YUL & YYZ office. YUL quoted me wrong # of miles for the itinerary and asked me to call general reservation # for reservation & ticketing. YYZ office said they have checked " NH (Malaysian Airlines) and NH (Anna All Nippon Airways for Japan)" and no reward seat is available (though United shows availability).

Not too optimistic about the prospects.....