That $23.50 of fees is great news if it holds up. Can you get that up again and take a screenshot-maybe we can figure out how to work it.When I found the award on ÀF Flying Blue ít only said $23.50 each way in fees. I travel most of the year and have never flown to a "gateway" or any other city. We just use ground transportation, usually a car service these days. OK sorry, I sort of understood you. We live within 3 hours of JFK and IAD and less from EWR, PHL, BWI so we are pretty much covered.
At our age I don't take flights that get me in late at night (exccept in and out of DXB there may not be a choice. We sometimes arrive in SIN very early morning, but my hotel of choice there pretty much always lets us check in.
My major question here was, do I want to use 125K(times 2 since my wife and I travel together) UR points to "buy" AF Business to Paris or am I better off just spending the cash. The Points Guy says AF points worth 1.3 cents so I'd be getting 2 cents but maybe I could do better like I used 420K UR to transfer to KE for EK First JFK-DXB-JFK
I like the country-western song "I ain't as good as I once was, but I'm as good once as I ever was".If I lived in Omaha, God help me. PA is bad enough these days. Thanks for your input. I'm old and mymind doesn't work as well as it used to.
Price it out. Amex's International Airline Program is for refundable business and first companion fares. The $2500 fare you found is almost certainly not refundable. Amex's price for one ticket could be well above $5000, so even with the companion fare "free" (+taxes/fees), you'd be worse off.I may have found the solution. AX Platinum has a deal on Business or First Companion fares plus gives 5X points on airfares booked with them or directly with an airline. I could buy one, get a deal on the other one and get 5X points convertibole to SQ or wherever.
http://thepointsguy.com/2016/06/amex-platinum-companion-fare/
http://frequentmiler.boardingarea.com/2016/10/06/amex-biz-platinum-50-bonus-minor-game-changer-heres/
No but thanks for the input. Actually no x 2 lolPrice it out. Amex's International Airline Program is for refundable business and first companion fares. The $2500 fare you found is almost certainly not refundable. Amex's price for one ticket could be well above $5000, so even with the companion fare "free" (+taxes/fees), you'd be worse off.
Do you have the Business Platinum card and 500k Amex points? If so, you could redeem 500k points for the 2x $2520 Air France tickets you found and you'll get 250k points refunded to you. So net you've paid 125k points per ticket, but it's a mileage-earning ticket.Code:http://thepointsguy.com/2016/06/amex-platinum-companion-fare/
Code:http://frequentmiler.boardingarea.com/2016/10/06/amex-biz-platinum-50-bonus-minor-game-changer-heres/