Canadian Kilometers notes yesterday that Mileage Plan miles can be redeemed for travel on Emirates to Europe. This isn't actually new and has been the case since the partnership formed, but it's probably a good time to post a reminder of it since Emirates launched service between New York and Milan earlier this week. Anyway,…
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@ Pointsloverrrrr -- Generally quite good, it's not unusual to see two first class award seats on the route.
Great article, Lucky. I should point out that the routes you discuss (Dubai/Milan) from the US are 777 routes, so no showers.........also, for West Coast folks, it makes the travel to NYC difficult..LAX to Dubai will be A380, as you mentioned.
Doesn't JAL also have some other sweet spots in their award chart, especially for Business Class? I seem to recall Steve Belkin discussing them at some point at one of the seminars a couple years ago. I think Turkish had a sweet spot as well for one of their regions.
@ carl -- They have many sweet spots, all depends where you want to go. Are you talking about for travel on Emirates? They also charge just 85,000 miles for business class between New York and Dubai, which is a phenomenal value as well.
@Lucky - not just Emirates. I'll have to revisit the JAL chart again. But wouldn't mind seeing another post one of these days on some of the foreign carrier mileage programs and where they offer good deals, especially in Business Class.
I think for an Alaska award you can actually do WAS-LAX-stop-DXB-stop-LHR all in F, all on one award combo Alaska/Emirates... am I right?
@ Lantean -- It depends somewhat on the agent, though not sure they'd allow transcon backtracking in the wrong direction.
I have 200k of Wyndham points, want to transfer to miles, do you think Alaska, and JAL are better than United, or AA? I mostly want to fly US to Asia.
@ Charles -- I guess it really depends what your goal is. American and United are incredibly valuable for Asia as well, so it just depends on where in Asia you're going and which airlines you most want to fly.
Is the stop over just a <24hr connection or can you actually spend a couple of days in Dubai? How about on the way back?
Is there a good way to get Amex MR points into Alaska for this type of an award? It would be a bucket-list trip for me to fly LAX-AMS via Dubai on the A380 =)
Stephan -- You can stay for as long as you'd like. Alaska allows stopovers on one way awards, so you can have a stopover on both the outbound and return if you'd like.
I'm thinking of booking the JFK-Milan sale fare and trying to decide how to credit miles. It looks like I could do it to Alaska and get 5,625 miles as an MVP and credit towards status. But, Emirates has a 2500 mile sign up bonus, 20% bonus for family member's flights and 1500 mile refer-a-friend so I could earn 9,500 Skywards miles and my significant other could earn another 6,250. We don't have a use for Emirates, but might be worth it to almost have two one-ways on Jetblue.
@ Matt -- If you live in the US and ever fly American or Delta I'd probably still credit to Alaska. While it may be fewer miles, they'll be more useful and can more easily be combined with miles from other sources (credit card sign-up bonuses, Starwood transfers, topping off an account, etc.).