How I made £3.80 out of useless Korean Air miles

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• tony says:

  4 Apr4 April 07:22

  Might be worth pointing out that there does now appear to be a sensible family account option in SkyTeam, in the shape of AeroMexico.

  I’ll be putting it to the test shortly!

  • Rob says:

    4 Apr4 April 09:21

    Interesting, thanks Tony. Can you let me know afterwards how easy it was to set up and then redeem? I can then write something.

• Ian says:

  4 Apr4 April 08:24

  On a similar thread, I’ve been looking through my accounts and have found some “useless”miles and wondered if there’s a way they could be “useful”.
  I’ve got 3500 Delta miles, 1201 United and 1500 Southwest. I appreciate these were from one trip stateside and a very low amounts but I am very unlikely to add to the totals.

  Any ideas?

  • Mr Bridge says:

    4 Apr4 April 08:55

    I too have ‘useless miles’, 7772 asia miles and 12212 thai royal orchid, any ideas on these?

    • John says:

      4 Apr4 April 09:11

      Asia miles can be converted to several other things via points.com
      Thai, I would try to get a few more and then use for the lowest redemption level
      1201 United are basically useless, unless like me you can be bothered to add 2000 e-rewards every 3 months until 12500 for the lowest redemption 🙁

      • Rob says:

        4 Apr4 April 09:35

        I did a big article on points.com recently – do a search in the search box. It tells you how to use it without being legged over!

    • Rob says:

      4 Apr4 April 09:34

      12,000 Thai is a lot – how much is a one way on Lufty, Swiss, Austrian or LOT inside Europe?

      • Mr Bridge says:

        4 Apr4 April 11:28

        actually, turns out have 15k, but cant make a booking on thai website, how do i use with austrian?

        • Mr Bridge says:

          4 Apr4 April 12:04

          thai redemption is 20k each way to europe to europe so thats no go.

          15k Thai miles x2 as my partner has the same, and they can not be combined 9 no family acc exists)

        • xcalx says:

          4 Apr4 April 13:34

          15,000 is good for 1 return in economy within Thailand. Over £200 value on the pricey Bangkok Ko Samui hop.

          I have 90 Bangkok Airways points, 30 of which expire 31st December 2014. 100 points is the requirement for a Thailand OW flight . Unluckily I am planning Koh Samui for Jan/Feb

          We could do with a swop shop here on Head for points. Ha

  • Rob says:

    4 Apr4 April 09:26

    Some US sites have hotel and car booking portals where you can book a room and partpay using whatever balance you have. They will go through as third party bookings so no points or status benefits though.

• Roger says:

  4 Apr4 April 08:35

  Checking the Etihad website, I see that FlyBe is an ‘earn miles’ partner, though only redemption rates are shown.

  There’s a huge number of codeshare partners – http://www.etihad.com/en/about-us/our-partners/ – but I’m assuming that only Etihad flight numbers qualify for credit.

  Thanks for pointing out this opportunity. I’d never have dreamed of directing non-alliance flights this way.

• Adam says:

  4 Apr4 April 09:34

  I’ve got about 17,000 enrich miles with MH, that I put in the account 1 month before it became part of Oneworld. I’m not sure how to / if it’s possible to use these for flights in Europe with BA / Air Berlin. The members area is very clunky and customer service (pre disappearing plane, so i imagine there is no chance now) was virtually not existent.

  Does anyone have any ideas?

• Lloyd says:

  5 Apr5 April 22:20

  This is the issue for a lot of people, redundant points that will just get wiped away. I have 5,107 Asia Miles and about 10,000 Aeroflot bonus plan. Ideally I’d like to convert into whatever i can get avios wise but suspect there is no way to do this!

  • Rob says:

    6 Apr6 April 09:47

    You can convert 5107 Asia Miles via points.com – read this https://headforpoints.com/2012/08/18/pointscom-exchanging-miles-points/

    5107 seems to get you 897 AA miles, 2170 IHG Rewards Club points or 2,411 Melia points, amongst other things. The Melia points WOULD convert to Avios but you need to check the minimum requirements.

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