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israel with miles
« on: June 24, 2010, 04:34:21 PM »
so i wanto use miles to go to israel
firstly- i have abt 100,000 amex miles (from a gold business card)
and 65,000 united miles (can these be used with continental)
I dont know WHERE to begin!!!!!!

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Re: israel with miles
« Reply #1 on: June 24, 2010, 04:59:11 PM »
 Id say begin with when are you looking to go

 what class

 are stops OK

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Re: israel with miles
« Reply #2 on: June 24, 2010, 06:03:05 PM »
Id say begin with when are you looking to go

 what class

 are stops OK
And how many people?

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Re: israel with miles
« Reply #3 on: June 24, 2010, 06:43:03 PM »
And you can use United for Continental, but it's often blocked, so you probably need to be flexible with your dates.

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Re: israel with miles
« Reply #4 on: June 24, 2010, 06:58:37 PM »
And you can use United for Continental, but it's often blocked, so you probably need to be flexible with your dates.

 Ok but how do you expect them to get to TLV with only 65k in UA miles?  UA isnt with Amex MR so they would have to buy or trade someone for the additional 10k if they wanted to go Coach

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Re: israel with miles
« Reply #5 on: June 25, 2010, 09:48:22 AM »
so it would be just one person, me,  i would want to go coach, from aug 8th - 18th prefb.

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Re: israel with miles
« Reply #6 on: June 25, 2010, 11:39:08 AM »
so it would be just one person, me,  i would want to go coach, from aug 8th - 18th prefb.


 U do realize you are awaking up very late into the Game since thats Prime Time

 anyway the only thing I found was in Biz 115k

8/8 11:25pm - 1:55pm EWR-WAW on LO

8/9 10:55pm-3:35am WAW-TLV on LO

 or;

 8/9 9:30pm-11:35am EWR-ZRH on LX (738)

8/10 10:45pm-3:30am ZRH-TLV on LX

 coming back 8/23 (nothing before)

 1:20am-5:10am TLV-BRU on SN (319)

 9:40am-10:05am BRU-MAN on SN (puddle jumper)

 11:30am-2:25pm MAN-EWR on CO (752)

or

 6am-9am TLV-WAW on LO

 5pm-8:45pm WAW-JFK

 

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Re: israel with miles
« Reply #7 on: June 25, 2010, 01:36:57 PM »
can i combine amex and united miles from two diff accounts?

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Re: israel with miles
« Reply #8 on: June 25, 2010, 01:39:49 PM »
reply how abt coming back earlier than the 18th? and maybe even leaving aug 5th?

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Re: israel with miles
« Reply #9 on: June 25, 2010, 01:54:38 PM »
reply how abt coming back earlier than the 18th? and maybe even leaving aug 5th?

 I take it you didnt read my post that well did U? "coming back 8/23 (nothing before) = I checked a few days before and Zippo

 if you are so Flex then call Continental and have them do any further checking

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Re: israel with miles
« Reply #10 on: June 25, 2010, 01:58:18 PM »
can i combine amex and united miles from two diff accounts?

 1 you cant combine any 2 UA accts so 65 in 1 and 65 in a 2nd = just that and not 130 or 75 and 55

 nor CO mile aand UA miles

2- UA isnt a partner with Amex MR so you cant move your MR pts to UA (I learnt this most recently)

 as I see your sit you need to get 115k into CO and only have 100k in Amex = short by 15k, the only thing I can think of is to buy 15k from someone who has Amex MR pts  (BTW Im not condoning buying pts from someone) also Amex will front you pts Im not sure what the max is but of cause you will have to use the Amex and earn back those borrowed pts but at least you wont have to pay anyone for theirs

 I just logged onto my acct which has only a few pts left in it and I was offered a 15k advance, so call MR and see if you have the same 15k if yes thats how to do it take the advance and then move 115k to CO.BUT before U do the transfer call CO and see if its still available and if they could put it on hold for You (I doubt it but U wont know unless U ask, if you dont have a CO acct already then I doubt they will hold anything) The gamble is what happens if once the Miles are there the flights arent any longer = you will be sitting with 115k in a CO acct
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Re: israel with miles
« Reply #11 on: June 25, 2010, 02:32:04 PM »
can BA miles transfer anywhere else? also, star alliance website are they telling you avail or just the airlines that go on that day?

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Re: israel with miles
« Reply #12 on: June 25, 2010, 02:37:48 PM »
can BA miles transfer anywhere else? also, star alliance website are they telling you avail or just the airlines that go on that day?

 BA is OW and not *A so If I rememeber its 90k in coach and 130k in Biz, not that I think youd find anything at all but you can fly on BA,IB,MA (from BUD) and RJ

I was very surprised that I found what I did as the biggest problem was nothing avialble from the US to Europe or back from Europe, Think it over a few days and your Delema will take care of istelf = Nothing available any longer

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Re: israel with miles
« Reply #13 on: June 25, 2010, 03:50:20 PM »
my ques is, if i do take any of the flights above, do i pay any taxes or fees? Basically, do i pay anything on top of 115K miles?

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Re: israel with miles
« Reply #14 on: June 25, 2010, 04:03:41 PM »
One more quest, amex said they will advance me 15k miles? anyone done this before?

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Re: israel with miles
« Reply #15 on: June 25, 2010, 04:34:13 PM »
my ques is, if i do take any of the flights above, do i pay any taxes or fees? Basically, do i pay anything on top of 115K miles?

 if booked via CO only reg taxes that Everyone will pay no matter the kind of tkt so youd pay the US departure and security taxes, TLV departure tax and any that WAW has. But no segment fees or fuel surcharges as far as I know, it will be more if you do the Man-EWR flight but the LO flight back is into JFK while you will be flying out of EWR (I assumed you were starting and coming back to NY)

 so; EWR-WAW-TLV-WAW-JFK is $79.59 while EWR-WAW-TLV-BRU-MAN-EWR is $100.59

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Re: israel with miles
« Reply #16 on: June 25, 2010, 04:38:29 PM »
One more quest, amex said they will advance me 15k miles? anyone done this before?

not  the full 15k but lessor amounts its got to be by the 1000ths, if you CX the card before you spent enough to earn the 15k back they will charge you for the pts you didnt repay , dont know the amount off hand. If you dont pay them the $$ it will be sent to a collection agency and your credit score will get a hit for Non Payment something no one wants at least if they are relatively young

Not saying youd do this but wanted to give a heads up to anyone who might run it thru their head, not worth doing especially for 15k in pts or miles

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Re: israel with miles
« Reply #17 on: June 26, 2010, 05:21:38 AM »
my ques is, if i do take any of the flights above, do i pay any taxes or fees? Basically, do i pay anything on top of 115K miles?
Every flight has taxes. Its pretty much the same as a paid ticket.

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Re: israel with miles
« Reply #18 on: June 27, 2010, 12:26:39 AM »
i have a wedding in Israel Aug 16 and would like to use miles i have co miles i know its late and i cant seem to find anything even with a stop im flex with coming and going just have to be there for the 16th Thanks for any advice

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Re: israel with miles
« Reply #19 on: June 27, 2010, 12:39:50 AM »
i have a wedding in Israel Aug 16 and would like to use miles i have co miles i know its late and i cant seem to find anything even with a stop im flex with coming and going just have to be there for the 16th Thanks for any advice

 well if the 8th is too early and the 24th is too late to return,then you are SOL its in Biz for 115k