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Icelandair is a partner of Alaska Airlines. Their award chart for using miles on Alaska discout hotels motels orlando florida is extremely favorable : 20,000 miles roundtrip in coach, 30,000 miles roundtrip in first class. I do not know why it is so favorable, considering redeeming for flights discout hotels motels orlando florida on Icelandair can be extremely costly.
discout hotels motels orlando florida There s a 20% bonus on purchased miles running through September 28th. That means those 25,000 purchased miles actually get you 30,000 miles, enough for a roundtrip ticket in first class on Alaska Airlines.
So, if you buy 50,000 miles it will cost you $525. If you then go and transfer those miles to someone, they will have 60,000 miles (because of the 20% bonus). Those 60,000 miles, then, will cost you a total of $550. That means you are either getting 2 first class flights on Alaska for $275 each roundtrip, or 3 coach flights for $183 each roundtrip.
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There s always the chance that a given flight option doesn t work out, that an overnight discout hotels motels orlando florida connection forces the award to price double, or that Icelandair changes the rules (e.g. that they stop allowing redemptions to cities where they do not codeshare). All speculative.
So what I would do is Icelandair Saga Club , find the award seats on Alaska Airlines that you want, ring up Iceland Air at 1-800-223-5500, and have them verify availability and cost of the award. Then buy the points you want, and redeem for the tickets.
I wouldn t bank Icelandair miles for the future. This isn t a glitch or mistake, but it s too good of a value to last. At some point the opportunity will go away. Icelandair does permit purchasing up to 100,000 miles per account discout hotels motels orlando florida each year. I would only buy right in advance of redemption, personally
With the bonus being available on inital purchase and then again on transferring to get two first classs tickets to hawaii how many points do i buy initially(and what does it cost)? how many will i get after the bonus? then how many do i transfer? and how many will i get after the second bonus? The math is hard to follow
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@Gary did you edit the post? Earlier you said that in your experience it was easier to get FC saver space out of ATL then a few other cities, now I don t see that. I was going to ask you if you had found and ATL Saver space.
@Scott, sorry, I was in the middle of editing because I wrote Atlanta but meant bizarrely enough Minneapolis (both Delta hubs and all). I was going to strikethrough Atlanta and correct myself with MSP, then I got distracted.
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@Carol I believe they use points.com for the points purchases, so i assume not, you d have to pre-designate icelandair in any case so you would have to not have already chosen an airline for the year. But I think it s a long shot.
@Karen there s nothing wrong with this. Jared, who originally posted the deal, has been emailing directly with the head of their Saga FF program and she knows about it. She is even grateful for the publicity. And on that note, it really is great publicity. Look at how many people it is directing to their website and FF program? That is great exporsure. I just booked our trip to Puerto Vallarta in first, very excited.
I actually think Karen was kidding, because of comments made in some earlier posts about how I shouldn t be sharing information for the world to see and take advantage of, since folks who already have that information want to keep it a secret
The only drawback is I like to fly into LIH, and that s not a non-stop on Alaska. The alternative is to buy a revenue ticket way in advance (so I m a lock for an upgrade) and use BA miles for the same AA flight for my wife (cheaper than booking with AA miles).
I live in Seattle, so this is probably a lot more usable for me than many here we have nonstop flights on AS to Oahu, Maui and Kauai (in fact, I m on one of those flights to Kauai in about 3 weeks on an award ticket earned by getting 2 AS credit cards, but I digress).
Also, as we re going to Kauai in just a few weeks, discout hotels motels orlando florida I m having some difficulty justifying this deal to my wife (who doesn t like repeating trips). I d consider banking these miles for at least a little while. How long does it seem this deal will stay fresh before the miles start to rot?
@Beelzabubba the Icelandair website SAYS U.S. and Canada destinations, so they could limit you to that, but as I recommend in the post call and have them check availability and tell you the miles price, and THEN buy the miles
my two cents: I jus bought 42,000 miles ($543) plus 20% = 50,400 miles .transferred 50,000 to my wife s acct. ($25) so we have 60,000 miles for $568 ..we are in PHL..so PHL-HNL (if possible) First Class for $284 each is a Grand Slam but it we can t work that, PHL-SEA or SEA-HNL FC for $284 is still a home run and we may have up to four years to book this not much downside!
FYI folks. I got the error as well during acct setup, so I sent the email to set acct up manually. The auto reply says that they (Saga Club staff) are only available M-F 9a-4p their time. Iceland is EST +4
Everything finally worked for me found a solid transcontinental positioning discout hotels motels orlando florida flight so I could avoid the problem with multi-leg / overnight bookings and will pay the change fee if they ever get it fixed. Looks like they might have changed some of the flight numbers overnight just to give everyone discout hotels motels orlando florida a heads up.
I used 3 Saga Club accounts. By the way, my accounts were created within hours even though they gave me that error saying they weren't created. Also, certain browsers give problems, so I'd recommend switching browsers if the site doesn't seem to be working. Firefox under OS X worked for me, as did Internet Explorer under Windows. Also, the password that you give them when you sign up doesn't work – you have to use the one they give you in your email confirmation.
I just received the email back from Iceland Air giving me my Saga number. The first 6 numbers are my birth date in three sets of 2 digits in day-month-year order. I found that sort of odd. Is everyone s Saga numbe like that or was mine an amazing coincidence?
I am a little concerned that these miles will be devalued by the time I can use them. I would be happy to buy now if I thought I could wait until next autumn and still get the same 1st class r/t for 30k. Call me paranoid.
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Im almost inclined to dive in for my family of four since ill soon not be able to earn as miles through other means (due to another blog thread which ive argued should not be on here) but whats interesting is that ive found one can use as miles to fly on iceland and get pretty decent redemption when flying say bos-ams thru iceland @ 55k pp for next may for example. Most carriers want 90k pp for that. So what im now wondering is: can i buy iceland miles, get the bonus, transfer them to as, and use those to book an iceland award? Dont see why not but am curious of others thoughts
The Icelandair deal is great for redemptions on Alaska. If you do enough points discout hotels motels orlando florida transfers in a chain you should be able to get the cost down to where it is not CRAZY for redemptions with category 7 Hilton HHonors properties. Or where it is not CRAZY for redemtpion on Icelandair. But not amazing even then no matter the contortions you go through. Even if you get the cost per point down to half a cent it s still no