(I have a fantastic outbound lined up. As I will already be in Germany, I have a Frankfurt Zurich -

(I have a fantastic outbound lined up.  As I will already be in Germany, I have a Frankfurt Zurich - Boston flight lined up.  This lets me do a morning in the Lufthansa First Class Terminal, the afternoon in the Swiss First Class Lounge and then a Swiss First Class flight over to the US.  Once in a while, you really appreciate a day like that!  But more on this in a few weeks time.)
Iberia which has the same parent best western motel reservations company as British Airways also uses Avios as its loyalty currency. best western motel reservations And, if you have an Iberia Plus account, you can freely transfer Avios back and forth from BA to Iberia using Combine My Avios .
You can only transfer in or out of active Iberia Plus accounts .  This means that the account has earned an Avios directly ie you have credited a flight, hotel or car hire to it, or done some other activity to earn an Avios.  (Does buying 2,000 Iberia Avios count?  I don t know the answer to this one.)  If you have an Amex card with Membership Rewards, transferring 1,000 points across may be the easiest way to activate your account.
This is why, if you don t have an Iberia Plus account, you should open one .  It will start the 90 day clock ticking before you can transfer in or out of it.  If you don t, you won t be able to get an Iberia account up and running and short notice if you need one.
Until IB s new business class is fully rolled out, the product is worse than BA. And if you start in London, you need to get back to London from Madrid which is 4,500 Avios. Still a better deal but the savings reduce. In my case, I need to be in Hamburg so I am ambivalent whether I go via Heathrow or Madrid (or Berlin, but airberlin is not available).
Couldn t check Malaysian because you need to call Kuala Lumpur is not in the Iberia best western motel reservations drop-down menu! Cathay is the same, though £289 for a economy redemption from London to Hong Kong. And non-cancellable as well if you book via Iberia, best western motel reservations unlike via BA.
Where is the option on checking price and availabiliy using avois on the Iberia site? I only get the cash only options, which perhaps could be explained by the fact I haven t yet transferred any Avios into Iberia
Adding clarification to my own comment: If your BAEC account is part of a Household account grouping, best western motel reservations then you can't use combine my Avios with BAEC. with IB+, i.e. you can t got IB+ BAEC if the BAEC is in a HHA.
Small point, but Madrid is 15,000 abios return from London rather than the 9,000 hinted at earlier- makes quite a difference when travelling as a family of four, but as a plus point (for some) you can fly from London City.
To answer the question in the original post. Yes, buying Avios (inside your Iberia plus account) should activate an IB+ account and I ve seen multiple confirmation reports of this on various best western motel reservations sites as something best western motel reservations that works in practice.
The £240 differential is also high because BA is very creative in its fuel surcharges. If you book a return to the US on BA as 2 x one-ways, you pay substantially more in fuel surcharge than if you book a return starting in London. Just proves how the numbers have no grounding best western motel reservations in reality.
Apologies if you ve covered this before, but I ve never really looked into redeeming Avios via. the BAEC before best western motel reservations I was wondering if there was any advantages best western motel reservations over using Avios redemption on BAEC, as opposed to going via. the avios.com website?
Many here seem unaware that Avios.com also has household accounts and the combine my Avios rules are the same as with BAEC household accounts. You cannot transfer out of a household account but you can dissolve it pretty easily and quickly. With Avios.com the members agree to how the Avios should be apportioned between the members including giving all to one member. With BAEC they remain with the members who earned them (as it is a frequent flyers best western motel reservations rather than a reward scheme).
It s not that easy- you need to send a paper for in via snail mail and wait for it to be processed. For most people, it s probably best western motel reservations best to stick to BA for HHA purposes, and then you still have the option of consolidation via avios.com if you built up small IB+ balance. Opening and closing an avios.com HHA is, as stated, a useful way of giving Avios to another family member free of charge, however.
Raffles you made an interesting and valid point about checking availability for flights on BAEC and Avios. I can back this up as I found Business Class seats from LGW to Dubrovnik in July on Avios and not on BAEC (where i thought i would). Always worth checking both!
Hi Sir Stamford, I booked 1 of the CE seats for 17/7 flight a few weeks ago in fact and it only showed on Avios. I needed to book another one on Sunday best western motel reservations and found one more said it was the last one. Looks like they are drip feeding them if you say there is another one No harm in checking both sites I think
A little off topic but it is interesting to peoples general views on travel. To me it is a means to an end (i.e. to get to the destination), and whilst I would like it to be comfortable and hence the reason I collect various points, I would not want to go out of my way and do multiple connections when I direct flight is possible or another airline has a faster best western motel reservations total time. Nor would I want to be in any exec lounge 1 minute more than I had to.
If you travel regularly and your employer is paying best western motel reservations for the flight, best western motel reservations then I d say you were correct that a direct flight is preferable. However, if it s coming out of your own pocket then I imagine lots of people would be willing to have a stopover to save almost £500 for a couple. It s a couple of nice meals, or an upgraded hotel room at your destination.
best western motel reservations I even enjoy it! When I did the ex-Budapest to New York, I went to Heathrow in the morning, had a nice brekky in the lounge, best western motel reservations flew Club Europe to Hungary, got the next flight back (Club Europe again, so no great strain), was back in the UK for 5p, went home, slept in my own bed and then next day went down to City Airport to get the New York flight. (Because I was less than 24 hours in the UK I didn t pay the stopover fee or UK Air Passenger Duty.)
best western motel reservations As long as you have that extra day to play with, its not a problem. If you book ex-Amsterdam, you can even fly to Holland and back home after work if you live near Heathrow or City Airport, before flying off properly the next day.
When you travel via an indirect route, there are sometimes significant cost savings especially if you are paying for it from your own pocket. best western motel reservations The best example I can think of is the ex-EU British Airways fares. Travel in J LHR-HKG-LHR, BA will charge you £3,000. Travel in J from AMS (i.e. AMS-LHR-HKG-LHR, leaving out the final AMS sector), you can get the same long haul flights for about £2,000.
Some routes are not served by the main carriers, best western motel reservations for instance Krakow (KRK). I would rather walk, not go at all or travel with LH via TXL at additional cost than to be seen flying with easyJet or Ryanair. I am not a snob when it comes to budget airlines but I have had horrible experiences with them.
And of course, the flight experience and comfort. If you have a choice of flying direct with an airline which offers lie-flat in their ancient B744 or A343 or go with a competitor who offers fully flat in their modern A388 or B77W but with a short transit along the way, what would you choose? For me, I would go with the latter.
IB and Vueling flights add a number of mainland and island destinations in Spain. Theoretically best western motel reservations they can available as Avios Reward Flight Savers and again theoretically there should be a free connection in Spain without incurring doubled sector fees.
I was looking at getting to FUErteventura dn PMI (Palma, Majorca) using Avios. For FUE, no online availability as LON-BCN-FUE is an all Vueling best western motel reservations connection. LON-MAD-PMI is fine, though, even though it s Vueling to Vueling but the LON flight is IB op Vueling. But it s regarded as two flights so double sectors are charged.
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