Selling air miles.

[Ken Figenus]

Its just SO difficult to use any points ever I find. BA has so many clauses - just booked 4 flights to Argentina could I use a single Avios point towards the cost? Nope. Could I use them on another One World Iberia flight instead? Nope.

Hope that PayPal money clears mate...sounds a bit fishy - its either paid or isnt?

[GT03ROB]

Ken Figenus said:

Its just SO difficult to use any points ever I find. BA has so many clauses - just booked 4 flights to Argentina could I use a single Avios point towards the cost? Nope. Could I use them on another One World Iberia flight instead? Nope.

Hope that PayPal money clears mate...sounds a bit fishy - its either paid or isnt?

Using AVIOS is not too difficult depending on what you want. I use around 100-200k a year for flights. If you want in school holidays to holiday destinations you will probably be out of luck. But I have my Christmas flights home booked (Home 20th Dec, back 2nd Jan) using them in Club.

Using them towards the cost is poor value.

[boxst]

Ken Figenus said:

Its just SO difficult to use any points ever I find. BA has so many clauses - just booked 4 flights to Argentina could I use a single Avios point towards the cost? Nope. Could I use them on another One World Iberia flight instead? Nope.

Hope that PayPal money clears mate...sounds a bit fishy - its either paid or isnt?

I've managed to use them much more in the last couple of years. BA seem to have opened up more flights. Went to San Francisco, Los Angeles, Spain, Las Vegas and Hawaii in the last two years most during school holidays. All in economy though, only managed to book business class on one flight (two adults, two children).

By far the best value is internal flights in America as the tax is so low. Flying from LA to Hawaii ( a six hour flight), was £15 each

[Ken Figenus]

boxst said:

Flying from LA to Hawaii ( a six hour flight), was £15 each

That is the last time I successfully used them!!! And the Marriott points for Maui. Still chuffed. That is 10 years ago though!

I reckon that is a TOP TIP! Thanks.

[downthepub]

That's almost $1000 now paid into my PayPal account which works out to be about £720 in real money after the currency conversion and PayPal's pimp fees. I guess the only thing which is a bit strange is that they need your login credentials to book the flights for other people; guess it operates on trust. As I barely use my Virgin login, he can knock himself out.

[Ken Figenus]

GT03ROB said:

Using AVIOS is not too difficult depending on what you want. I use around 100-200k a year for flights. If you want in school holidays to holiday destinations you will probably be out of luck. But I have my Christmas flights home booked (Home 20th Dec, back 2nd Jan) using them in Club.

Using them towards the cost is poor value.

Good tips Rob - thanks. I also have a wedge of Amex points that could be converted to Avios. The points are worth £955 on Amazon... I just don't have the time or will to work out what value these almost 200k points COULD be if converted to Avios... And then if I cant remotely book what I want, when I can go, then they are utterly worthless. It does tire me but I do like a bargain!

[GT03ROB]

Ken Figenus said:

GT03ROB said:

Using AVIOS is not too difficult depending on what you want. I use around 100-200k a year for flights. If you want in school holidays to holiday destinations you will probably be out of luck. But I have my Christmas flights home booked (Home 20th Dec, back 2nd Jan) using them in Club.

Using them towards the cost is poor value.

Good tips Rob - thanks. I also have a wedge of Amex points that could be converted to Avios. The points are worth £955 on Amazon... I just don't have the time or will to work out what value these almost 200k points COULD be if converted to Avios... And then if I cant remotely book what I want, when I can go, then they are utterly worthless. It does tire me but I do like a bargain!

I have an advantage that I use a route that aside from holiday periods & Fridays always seems to have availability. I'm buying tickets for it at least monthly. Using AVIOS really saves a lot of money during the year. I know the route pricing & how it varies so I play the game between cash & AVIOS to get try & get the best value. Never use them for Economy LH as it's an awful use.

I've also used them with BA holidays where flights have been booked in Club, but then 1st availability opened up & I snapped those up instead with the AVIOS. Domestically in Australia with Qantas there seems to be good availability too & there was zero fees there.

[so called]

Very interesting thread, I didn't know you could sell your miles.
I get about 150k miles per year.
My Wife doesn't fly so only flights I've bought with miles was for my daughter and a friend to holiday in California and also got flights for my neighbours son to fly to Las Vegas to meet his family.
Otherwise I spend them on goods or upgrades for myself.
The Lufthansa milesandmore on line shopping is very good and not restricted by your location.

[Paddymcc]

Any tips or ideas what i could do with 425k virgin airmiles? Bit of a pain using virgin flights based on where i am in the UK.