Written by joeheg @ Your Mileage May Vary
Happy Sunday to all of our travel friends, both near and far! Here are some articles we’ve read from other bloggers (and other sources) that we think you may like, as well, so we’re passing them along. Spending way too much time planning a trip is a pr…
Category: Redemption
Hilton: List of hotels you can book for 5000 points (Update)
Written by luxtravel @ Premium-Flights.com
Hilon update the list of hotels you can book with 5000 points. Here the full list of Hilton hotels for 5000 points per redemption night. With the 5th night free, the points you need of a five night redemption will … Read more
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Review: Le Meridien Etoile, Paris
Written by Miles and Even More @ Miles and Even More
I checked out of the Hyatt Regency Paris Etoile yesterday morning, and checked into the Le Meridien Etoile, just around the corner from the Hyatt, in the evening after a day’s sightseeing. Hyatt was kind enough to hold my bags for the duration of the day (which is a surprise in today’s world of terror threats), and I’m grateful to them for that.
The Le Meridien has standard and chic rooms as two of their base category rooms. As I mentioned in the introduction post, I booked a chic room on an award. Here’s a review of the hotel and room, but not breakfast (that didn’t come with the room, and we planned to head to the airport a little early in any case).
IHG announces PointBreaks list for bookings till 31 January 2017
Written by Miles and Even More @ Miles and Even More
IHG announces PointBreaks typically every quarter, where certain specific hotels are available for just 5,000 IHG Rewards Club points a night, irrespective of their category otherwise. IHG’s last offer some time in July covered the period till 31 October 2016, and the promotion that’s now been announced, is for stays till 31 January 2017. Here are the hotels and how you can book your PointBreaks award night(s).
Hilton hotel category changes announced, doesn’t affect India
Written by Miles and Even More @ Miles and Even More
Hilton HHonors has announced changes to categories for some of its hotels, which will take effect 12 October 2016. The good news is that this doesn’t affect any of their India hotels. That said, some of their changes are interesting. Let’s take a look.
New use for your JP miles as Jet Airways expands relationship with Delta, Air France and KLM
Written by Miles and Even More @ Miles and Even More
In March this year, Jet Airways moved its European hub (as part of its hub-and-spoke model) from Brussels to Amsterdam, while concurrently launching services to Amsterdam. Jet Airways has also operated daily flights on the Mumbai-Paris route for more than two years now. All of these give Jet Airways access to code-shares out of Amsterdam and Paris.
So the latest news is that Jet Airways will enhance its cooperation with Delta Air Lines and joint venture partner Air France-KLM. Here’s more on this development.
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New use for your Emirates miles, Sully, Defunct airlines of India, and much more
Written by Miles and Even More @ Miles & Even More
…or, The week that was – 11 September 2016.
Fifteen years back today changed the way many of us look at the world – more in the wrong way – and brought in massive changes to air travel. Think enhanced security, “random” screening, and whatever else!
Anyway, it’s been a rather slow week here at MAEM, but that doesn’t mean things aren’t happening out there in the travel, hotels and airlines space. So here’s a round up of the week that was – a summary of posts on this blog as also other things travel, aviation, points and miles that we found interesting.Hope you had a great week, and here’s wishing you the very best in the next one!
A huge change – Emirates will now allow Cash+Miles awards
Written by flyfromscratch @ Miles & Even More
Emirates, one the Big 3 Middle-East based airlines and probably the one with the worst Frequent Flyer program of the lot, has made a small change to their miles redemption program. However, Emirates will now allow Skywards (its frequent flyer program) members to book Cash+Miles award tickets, in addition to all-miles awards. My initial calculation shows that this converts into a HUGE change in value of their miles. Here’s more.
That one time when Jet Airways broke the rules…to help me out!
Written by Miles and Even More @ Miles & Even More
Many of us (and myself included) aren’t a happy lot with much of the changes Jet Airways is bringing about to the JP program. That said, I must admit (if it wasn’t apparent already), that I’m a pretty big fan of the airline and of Jet Privilege. Sure, they’ve made some flier-unfriendly changes, including Fare Choices, making JP pretty much a revenue-based frequent flier program, or the changes to partner award structures. Gone are the days of some fantastically awesome award routes for unbelievably low redemption requirements. But as with any and every other business, Jet simply reacted to the changes in the marketplace, and will continue to do so in the future.
And yet, in this post, I’d like to write about what I thought was a very “human” side of the airline.
Brussels Airlines to commence flights to Mumbai – here’s what you need to know
Written by Miles and Even More @ Miles & Even More
Brussels Airlines (SN) will commence direct flights from Brussels to Mumbai, filling in the gap created when Jet Airways chose to replace Brussels with Amsterdam as its European hub for its hub-and-spoke operations. According to this piece from the Aviation Tribune, SN is expected to commence operations in March 2017, though seats are currently not up for sale on SN’s website, indicating that this plan is probably in very early stages. Here’s a look at Brussels Airlines, and what to expect over the next few months in the specific context of the proposed Mumbai operations.
At a hotel for 36 years, the 2.1-billion-mile award ticket, borrowing a Kindle, and more
Written by Miles and Even More @ Miles & Even More
or, The week that was – 14 August 2016
Greetings to you on account of the Nation’s 70th Independence Day tomorrow!
Many of you, we guess, would be spending some time away from home this long weekend. But that’s no reason to stay away from updates from the points, miles and travel space.
So, here’s a round up of the week that was – a summary of posts on this blog as also other things travel, aviation, points and miles that we found interesting. Hope you had a great week, and here’s wishing you the very best in the next one!
2 billion JP miles for an Award Ticket??? And some crazy math to boot!
Written by Miles and Even More @ Miles & Even More
You just can’t make this stuff up.
Vinay and I were thinking of trying out First Class on Jet Airways Mumbai to Amsterdam, once they change the configuration from the A330 they’re currently flying, to the B777 (the change is expected to take effect from 30 October 2016). So we were looking for award ticket availability, when we found this gem.
Would you believe the cost of the award ticket is…2.1 billion JP miles?