Breaking: Aer Lingus redemptions now bookable on avios.com – but Boston loophole closed

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• Lumma says:

  1 Dec1 December 14:24

  Seems to me that for economy travel to the US, Norwegian is far better than wasting miles on redemptions. Can book one way for about £150 (or £200 with a bag and seat selection) and don’t have to get to Dublin/Dusseldorf/Berlin/Madrid beforehand.

  It’s a shame they don’t fly to Asia for cheap tax redemptions back from Hong Kong

  • Nick says:

    1 Dec1 December 23:24

    Wait until Norwegian start running DUB-BOS hopefully next year. There was talk of 69USD each way, a few days ago 🙂

• HIDeHi says:

  1 Dec1 December 14:27

  I see SNN to BOS is also being priced at the higher end.

  • HIDeHi says:

    1 Dec1 December 14:28

    I wonder if you can still get the old rates on ba.com

    • JAXBA says:

      1 Dec1 December 15:12

      EI redemptions not available on BA.com – yet.

      • Rob says:

        1 Dec1 December 15:34

        You can call – whether they have the same availability is a question.

• HIDeHi says:

  1 Dec1 December 16:53

  SH does not qualify for RFS either and their taxes are highish e.g. NOC-LGW £35 in taxes one way (Ireland has low departure taxes, as does NOC airport afaik, so I’m guessing they are adding in YQ or something similar)

  • HIDeHi says:

    1 Dec1 December 16:58

    It is disappointing really because there is not a huge incentive to book off peak flights like this if they are 4000 avios and £35 in taxes, given that flights on this route are generally in the £40 to £50 cash range. Sometimes these flights do get expensive e.g. at Christmas they can be £150 one way, but whether they will ever have availability during those periods…

• HIDeHi says:

  1 Dec1 December 17:12

  OK while this is mainly not treat, there is one area where there seems to be value.

  From BOS-DUB one way (and presumably from NYC etc.), it is only 50k avios off peak and £90 in taxes. At my valuation, this is about £490 for a O/W business class flight, which roughly matches what you can get in sales (e.g. £800/£900 return).

  In Economy, it is 13k avios and £70 in taxes, This is one of the few times where an economy long haul redemption is actually not bad value. I value this as £174 total in cost, which for a one way from US to Ireland, is pretty good, especially as the BOS flight is only 5hrs and 55mins so not too long to have to sit in economy.

• Planeflyer says:

  1 Dec1 December 23:50

  Looks like Avios/EI are pulling the same redemptions tricks as LH does (unless they book in EI “Plus”). I just looked for a one way LHR-DUB:

  Avios price: 4000 + £76.05 (Taxes, fees & surcharges)
  Same flight on aerlingus.com: £60.99 (inc taxes)

• Owen Rudge says:

  1 Dec1 December 23:52

  Apparently you can collect Avios on United Airlines with Aer Club! I wonder if that’s applicable to any UA flight or if it has to be purchased as part of an EI booking or something along those lines.

  • Lumma says:

    2 Dec2 December 02:54

    Seems to be any United flight. 50% of miles flown, good news when looking for cash US domestic flights to collect more avios than with American and crediting to BA

    • Lumma says:

      2 Dec2 December 02:54

      For cheap economy tickets I should add

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