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Bonus miles on Emirates Airline flights

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Emirates Airline is offering bonus miles – but only on less popular flights.

For example, from Heathrow to Dubai the bonus applies to the day flight departing 08:40 and arriving 18:45, or the 17:00 departure arriving Dubai at 02:50

The bonus is 1,000 miles per flight for economy class, 2,000 miles for business and 3,000 for First Class travel

At the time of this post, there are no bonus flights offered for the following months in 2013

July, September, November or December

To opt into the scheme you need to either book online at Emirates where you’ll receive the bonus automatically or if booking through an agent, you’ll need to login to your account and visit this page which will activate your registration.

This must be done during the same month that you purchase the ticket.

The good news is that the deal applies irrespective of the fare you pay.

Free hotel stopover in Dubai flying with Emirates

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Emirates now have 5 daily A380 aircraft flying to Dubai and an onward worldwide network. To fill these planes, they offer very competitive fares worldwide. However, when looking for seats, sometimes there may not be a suitable connection in Dubai.

The minimum connection time in Dubai between Emirates flights is just 1 hour and 15 minutes .

If the best available connection requires 8 or more hours stay in Dubai (economy class) or 6 hours + (business class) Emirates will provide free stopover hotel in Dubai

There are other rules, you must be flying Emirates in and out of Dubai (and not a code-share flight),

and the “ticket fare” i.e. the net amount paid to Emirates (net of commission or travel agent markups) must be as follows:

Fare East: USD1,100 return
West Asia & Gulf, Middle East USD900 return
Australia & New Zealand: Any fare – no minimum price
East Africa USD800
Rest of Africa USD850

And all Skywards redemption tickets except Saver Economy are eligible, although I don’t rate Skywards very highly – see my article here.

Economy passengers only get to stay in the Copthorne Airport Hotel which, according to our hotel comparison site, is worth approximately £80 – £100 per night.

Business and First class passengers will be accommodated in Le Meridien Dubai which would normally cost between £200 and £300

The stopovers, called “Dubai Connect” must be booked in advance via Emirates and only after tickets are issued