Airfares

[rhythmaning]

I've just booked a flight.

I wanted to use points on my (in)frequent flyer card. I have many thousands of points on both BA and BMi cards.

I checked what the normal price was for my flight, and then I thought I'd see what it cost in points.

The free flight using points cost more in taxes and surcharges - that's in real £s, not points - than the ordinary flight.

So my points are more or less worthless. This makes good sense from the airlines point of view, obviously. But it pisses me off greatly!

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[frumiousb.livejournal.com]

So my points are more or less worthless. This makes good sense from the airlines point of view, obviously. But it pisses me off greatly!

And they often have a limited number of seats that can be bought with points per flight. So if you could, somehow, find one that was cheaper, I've found that you would need to book it ten months in advance or something.