Monthly Archives: May 2018

How to book easyJet using Emirates Rewards

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If you log in to your Emirates Skywards account and choose to redeem miles, the only city pairs offered are those that Emirates fly.

So, you cannot select Edinburgh to Geneva, for example.

What you need to do is to go to this site which is the “Emirates Partner Rewards” site.
However, you must first be logged in to your Skywards Account.
The above link will take you back to the main Emirates site.
From there, choose to Redeem Miles from the bottom of the menu on the left.
Then choose “Partner Airline” below the search engine

There, you can then book easyJet and the process is very simple.

Fares depend on availability and a typical last-minute price for a single ticket is from 28,000 miles to approx 50,000 miles You can add a check-in bag using Skywards miles: Approx 5,000 miles

British Airways Online Support

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Booking online an ba.com and experiencing a problem?

Example Problem
You choose to discount your airfare with Avios, you select the amount and when you reach the final payment page the price reduction does not show.

There is a “useful link” to “Online Customer Support Information” which you may be forgiven for believing would provide a team of people who are familiar with the online booking process …WRONG!

The number 0344 493 0787 is eventually answered by a call centre who then offer to sell you a ticket, but first you have to be placed on hold for another 20 minutes by which time, you’ve timed out online and have to start the entire process from scratch!

How to discount your BA flight ticket using Avios?
The answer by trial and error to the above problem is that you must sign in to your executive club (although that was not offered at the choose discount stage)

 

More Air France and French Rail Strike Dates

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Air France / KLM chief, Jean-Marc Janaillac has resigned after French staff at Air France rejected a new pay deal.

This means that in addition to the ongoing rail strikes, that Air France staff are likely to increase their (in) action beyond the current date due Monday 7th May

According to Connexionfrance.com these dates are set:

Monday, May 7 – Air France strike

Tuesday, May 8 – Rail and Air France strike

Wednesday, May 9 – Rail strike

We contributed approx £15 via the 0345 Air France KLM telephone number this morning and failed to get through ….

Which is the Busiest International Air Route

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I would expect the busiest route to be a long-haul city pair such as London – New York but was surprised to read in this BBC Article  that it is …. Singapore – Kuala Lumpur

Given that there is an existing railway between the two cities it is a shame that over 80 flights a day are polluting the atmosphere when an upgrade to high speed rail should have been built.

I’ve travelled by train several times and it is a slow journey. It was even slower – or must have seemed to be – when my father was interned by the Japanese in Singapore and transported to work on the Burma Railway … but that’s another story.