Does use of 200,00 miles justify high fees?
Jan 24th, 2014, 01:56 PM
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I am not familiar with which cards pay you cash in the USA jryan, can't help you there. Start Googling as BigRuss suggests.
I should have mentioned that cards with cash rewards are as an alternative to cards with miles rewards. There is nothing stopping you from belonging to an airline frequent flyer program and also collecting miles when you do actually fly. My comment re cards is only about using cards that give you miles.
What I find though is now that I am not tied to air miles I usually don't fly with any major airlines. I use Low Cost Carriers (LCCs) almost exclusively these days.
For example I can fly Toronto to London (similar to your need for Boston to Rome, for $800 return quite easily on Air Transat.
So if I were in Boston and couldn't find an LCC going directly to Rome I might hop up to Toronto and onto an Air Transat flight to Rome on Sept. 12 returning September 24th (just an example obviously) for $935 CAD per person.
One of the advantages to being retired jryan is that you can be completely flexible when it comes to dates and time. But that doesn't mean you can't get good flight times either.
The flight I sampled leaves Toronto at 9pm, meaning you would have all day to get there. Or better yet fly up a day or two before to visit Toronto. The return leaves Rome at 2pm which is a fine time to be leaving and arrives in Toronto at 5.50Pm when you could either catch a connecting flight that evening still or overnight in Toronto on the return if you didn't on the way out. Those are non-stop flights as well by the way.
There are few very popular routes nowadays where you cannot find a LCC serving it. This might interest you in regards to Boston.
http://www.justice.gov/atr/public/pr...013/301616.htm
I should have mentioned that cards with cash rewards are as an alternative to cards with miles rewards. There is nothing stopping you from belonging to an airline frequent flyer program and also collecting miles when you do actually fly. My comment re cards is only about using cards that give you miles.
What I find though is now that I am not tied to air miles I usually don't fly with any major airlines. I use Low Cost Carriers (LCCs) almost exclusively these days.
For example I can fly Toronto to London (similar to your need for Boston to Rome, for $800 return quite easily on Air Transat.
So if I were in Boston and couldn't find an LCC going directly to Rome I might hop up to Toronto and onto an Air Transat flight to Rome on Sept. 12 returning September 24th (just an example obviously) for $935 CAD per person.
One of the advantages to being retired jryan is that you can be completely flexible when it comes to dates and time. But that doesn't mean you can't get good flight times either.
The flight I sampled leaves Toronto at 9pm, meaning you would have all day to get there. Or better yet fly up a day or two before to visit Toronto. The return leaves Rome at 2pm which is a fine time to be leaving and arrives in Toronto at 5.50Pm when you could either catch a connecting flight that evening still or overnight in Toronto on the return if you didn't on the way out. Those are non-stop flights as well by the way.
There are few very popular routes nowadays where you cannot find a LCC serving it. This might interest you in regards to Boston.
http://www.justice.gov/atr/public/pr...013/301616.htm
Jan 25th, 2014, 08:07 AM
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I also have gotten rid of one FF card and gone to a cash back card instead, it just makes more sense. Use the cash to buy whatever you want, the FF miles is just frustrating on some airlines. Delta, for example, I used to have a Delta Skymiles Amex card, but they keep raising the miles required and some of their foreign carriers won't hardly allow their use on any flight (Air France, for example), which was the main reason I got it. So I just switched to an Amex Blue card where I get cashback AND don't pay any annual fee.
Same thing with Cap One, although I never had one of their "miles" cards (which aren't really miles as they don't own an airline). I have always had one of their cashback cards, which is free. A friend of mine got their Venture card which has some kind of points for miles but you pay about $100 a year to have it.
Same thing with Cap One, although I never had one of their "miles" cards (which aren't really miles as they don't own an airline). I have always had one of their cashback cards, which is free. A friend of mine got their Venture card which has some kind of points for miles but you pay about $100 a year to have it.
Jan 25th, 2014, 11:45 AM
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Welcome to the wold of scamcharges, as noted by others this is typical of BA. Other airlines charge varying fees
Check out http://www.flyertalk.com
There is a section called the Information desk where new people can ask questions such as yours. Typically, the best value for your award redemption will be International business class.
Check out http://www.flyertalk.com
There is a section called the Information desk where new people can ask questions such as yours. Typically, the best value for your award redemption will be International business class.
