I am not a seasoned traveller and have little idea about booking flights like this ... want to go to New York for Xmas shopping. Someone told me that they booked their flights through Virgin but substantially reduced the price by pre-buying airmiles through Virgin as well ... i.e. £75 worth of Airmiles gave a flight discount of around £150.
Can anyone confirm this please, explain how it all works and give me contact points to do all of this? Thanks ....
2006-10-28 00:53:44 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Travel ➔ Air Travel
You can buy 'Airmiles' , many people sell them on ebay, you can also buy frequent flyers miles from the airlines, such as BA and Virgin, you can buy airmiles, this is often quite costly and I do not believe the deal that you have spoken about, as I used to work for a large loyalty programme. On BA you can clearly see where you buy more points, as I dont fly Virgin I am not sure.
If you collect Airmiles, then I would suggest you give them a call as they have some excellent offers, especially on the route you are wanting.
You will need to be booking around now to get the best price, as prices will start going up pretty heavily, I was made aware by a contact at the Flight Centre that one of the American airline was offering a return trip at £169 return, upto 13th December (0207 836 9502), not sure if they are still available.
You will find a London to New York flight will start from £249 at both Virgin and BA (no price fixing there then!).
2006-10-28 03:59:17 · answer #1 · answered by search4travelwebsites 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can get the flight for 271 with Icelandair flying from Heathrow to JFK, New York. If you are going to the USA for shopping, I wouldn't recommend New York though. Have you checked out Baltimore or Minneapolis? They have much lower prices and accomodation is also less expensive.
Have fun in the USA
2006-10-29 01:04:20 · answer #2 · answered by IC 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Virgin Atlantic is pretty cheap already - £289 in economy class.
You can join their frequent flyer club to qualify for their "miles" scheme. You can also buy miles.......but I don't think whoever told you they bought £75 of miles and saved £150 on the flight is telling you the whole truth.
You can check out current flights and the miles scheme on the attached links.
2006-10-28 01:00:59 · answer #3 · answered by the_lipsiot 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only reason to fly to New York is to go shopping. No other reason. New York is not the United States. To most Americans, it is almost a foreign country, a nice place to visit, but wouldn't want to live there.
2006-10-28 01:11:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Plan on spending most of your time in New York going through airport security
2006-10-28 01:03:25 · answer #5 · answered by harv 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had never hear about buying airmiles.
2006-10-28 00:56:38 · answer #6 · answered by CharWiz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can buy air miles but you need to be part of the 'Flying Club'
check here for more details
2006-10-28 01:00:25 · answer #7 · answered by sugarplum9903 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do not think one can buy air miles. Stii please confirm it from the particular airline whose miles are on sale, by calling on their toll free number.
2006-10-28 03:56:11 · answer #8 · answered by KB M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
im dumb
2006-10-28 01:56:00 · answer #9 · answered by МɨҞҾ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋