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Airlines in general |
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12/09/00 (132 review reads) |
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Advantages: free except for airport tax
Disadvantages: have to book so long in advance to secure seat
I used to save airmiles.
Every time I went to Sainsburys I cashed in my vouchers and transferred 40 airmiles to my account. I even received them on my credit card and I also had an airmiles savings account with my bank, and I got them for petrol as well.
But try to book a flight anywhere and you are told that there are none available, that they only have a limited few. When I queried this the airmiles operator told me, did I not realize some people actually book 12 months in advance and you have to be in early if you want the flights at all. This sort of takes the fun out of all the saving and booking. With the cheap flights we have now with many airlines, airmiles in my opinion do not work out reasonable when you add on the airport tax. You would be much better taking your Sainsbury vouchers to the likes of Principles where they will allow you double the value on them.
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- 06/07/01 I work in the travel industry and can only advise people to ignore the air miles scheme. Like most things, if it looks to good to be true, it is too good to be true. It is extremely difficult to be able to book seats using airmiles as there are only a hnadful of seats on the plane (and not on all flights) which are available to air mile redemption customers. |
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- 05/03/01 I agree with this. The Airmiles program simply sucks. YOU will be better off, sticking to individual airline's frequent flier programs.
Most frequent flier programs allow members to earn miles without flying (such as credit cards, banks, telephones etc,)
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