Business Platinum Card from American Express
130,000 MR points
Booking an Avios Multi-Carrier Award + Spontaneous Trip Update
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Business Platinum Card from American Express
- Earn 90,000 MR points upon spending $15,000 in the first three months
- Plus, earn 40,000 MR points upon making a purchase in months 14–17 as a cardholder
- And, earn 1.25x MR points on all purchases
- Also, receive a $200 annual travel credit
- Transfer MR points to Aeroplan and other frequent flyer programs for premium flights
- Unlimited airport lounge access for you and one guest at Priority Pass, Plaza Premium, Centurion, and other lounges
- Credits and rebates for business expenses throughout the year with Amex Offers
- Bonus MR points for referring family and friends
- Qualify for the card as a sole proprietor
- Annual fee: $799
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Does each segment has to be a direct flight, i.e. no connection for each segment?
Well, if there were a connection then that would count as two separate segments.
Any experience/thoughts with a routing of North America(east coast)>Australia>Asia>North America(west coast)>South America>North America(east coast)? Using all eight segments and the open jaw in the 25k-35k band? That is a logical route to me reading IATA zones……
Sounds like one of those that works in theory but may be tricky to get past an Avios agent in practice. Definitely worth a try though in my mind!
Wow – great info! Still new to points & miles but have shied away from BA Avios in lieu of Iberia Avios to avoid fuel surcharges. So even though I earn Avios with both carriers – I have transferred them over to the Iberia Avios account. Does Iberia have a similar multi-carrier award?
Good question Mary and not something I’ve looked at before. If they do, you can be sure I’ll cover it at some point!
Say BOS-MAD wasn’t available in J when you booked it … if you later find a J seat in that route and call to change it, would the change fee apply?
I believe so.
As usual you have given the miles and points community valuable information to increase our enjoyment of travel. I can hardly wait to try out this chart.
What this post really shows, however, is the divide between your millennial readers and , may I say your more mature followers.
The fact that you could arrange these flights on your cell phone while eating dinner and walking down the street in Tokyo boggles my mind.
While a younger reader may say” Ho Hum what else is new” , as an older person, I find this extraordinary.
A question though, when you say backtracking in zones would not be allowed, can you backtrack within a zone? ie CDG – FCO – CDG for example.
This was definitely one of the more "on the fly" award booking situations I’ve pulled off 🙂
Backtracking within a zone seems to be at the discretion of the agent. Some data points indicate that it must be a single continuous easterly/westerly direction, while others have been allowed minor backtracks like that.
Salon. Drool.
Neat to see they changed the design on the JL F cup. Looks like I have an excuse to fly them again.
Jay, don’t be that kid who does other people’s homework for them!
🙂
Haha :p
Tease. 3 questions come to mind, but I’m lazy. There are probably 5 if I really get into it.
I wanna know about the BA no-queue call centre. What’s your BA status, please?
I actually have no status, but I somehow seemed to have stumbled on the phone number for Gold members. That’s what the call centre’s automated script said anyway.
I have the same question as Bob. The cryptic nature of your blog post tells me you got this for Y.
the JAL website can actually be pretty good for searching for JAL award space once you get used to it, as you can see the whole month/year summary quite easily
What’s your plan with the final segment in Y? Are you just dropping it? Or are you allowed to upgrade it to J when space becomes available like with Aeroplan?
Who knows. I have a feeling that upgrading to business would be quite costly for me, so maybe I’ll fly it just for the jamón.
Did you get this ticketed at the Y pricing for 100k Avios? That would be unreal