Originally Posted By Liberty Belle >>Sadly Mr X, the UK carriers reset them (i.e. if unused within a year, they are lost!) each year. Not cool.<< Ouch! That's a real shame Here we have a similar rule to the US - if you have 'activity' once a year or something you keep your points. I have a frequent flyer credit card, so I have 'activity' (sometimes far, far too much activity) every month!
Originally Posted By The Goddess Mara I'm glad I bought my ticket for October back in April. $860 plus taxes, comes out to just over a grand. Must be a lot more now (particularly from the east coast).
Originally Posted By The Goddess Mara Just checked on United. If I were to book the same ticket today, the base fare would be 935 with an additional $410 in taxes, for a total of almost $1400 for a round trip! My $1000 ticket also includes a stop in Bangkok for a few days on the way to Tokyo, which makes it even a better deal.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Yep, flights to the US have gone up to $840 each, toyko $1500 - so it has come down a little. There are claims that there may be a reduction soon as jets are now leaving empty to keep their slots at Heathrow. I'll believe it when I see it. Needless to say, DLP only costs us about $300 as a family to get to, compared to $3360 for the US and $6000 to Tokyo. I think my children will be improving their French over the coming years.
Originally Posted By Mr X Conversely, my family and I have pretty much decided to confine our trips to places like Guam or Hawaii (or elsewhere in Japan, perhaps), and other cheap locations for now. Sadly, my family in Boston and Florida will not be seeing us for a while.
Originally Posted By leemac <<LA is actually CHEAPER?>> Almost always - the MCO route is effectively protected as only BA and Virgin fly direct. LAX has a lot of capacity with BA (3x daily) Virgin (2x), United, American and now Air France (yup - from London!). We use United for work and I've not seen any increase in LAX fare for years. We actually paid more in '95 on American than I have ever paid since (and I'm on a LHR-LAX flight usually every few weeks).
Originally Posted By leemac <<Sadly Mr X, the UK carriers reset them (i.e. if unused within a year, they are lost!) each year. Not cool.>> Who are you flying with Dave? BA definitely don't do that - I've got something like 1.2m BA miles in my account which is the accumulation of several years. I don't fly Virgin so can't comment on that but I'd be very surprised if it is any different.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Lee- that was with BA and Virgin. Because I do not fly international as much as I used to, I lose them. Because your account is very active, you accumulate.
Originally Posted By leemac Dave - BA's policy is: 12.3. If a Member has not earned or redeemed Mileage for 36 consecutive months, all Mileage that has accrued to that date will expire. Not a member of the Flying Club anymore so can't help you there. The definition of Mileage is also any BA Miles activity (so the same policy as most US airlines).
