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Hi guys - looking at AMEX Plat charge again. Few questions: 1) Ascent Premium earn rate - I saw a referral link (With the 10k referral bonus) where the page states: As a member of Ascent Premium - our highest tier of rewards - you'll earn up to 3 Membership Rewards points4 per dollar spent on...

Congratulations JT!

re: Avianca "Life Miles" - New FF program in *A Caviar for breakkie! That is a brilliant idea! I shall try that on my way home! :)

re: Avianca "Life Miles" - New FF program in *A F service would almost always beat J service, even though some may think that the TG F hard product may not be as good as SQ J. We did SYD-BKK and BKK-MXP with TG F and thought the F service was excellent. You have 2-3 FAs taking care of an...

re: Avianca "Life Miles" - New FF program in *A I didn't get this - probably because I did not participate in this round's 2 for 1 offer

Yeah fingers crossed I get on the flight! :)

You are right MEL_Traveller - I shouldn't be taking up the award space others can use. I will cancel it in a few days - AV is painful to deal with to say that very least.

yeah that's what I am thinking! :p

I called Thai Sydney and tried to get them to change my booking from J to F - the sales agent insisted that I need to get AV to send a note to Thai head office in BKK to wait-list me in F and there is nothing they can do about it in Sydney. She was definitely not friendly at all so I didn't...

Yep that's a risk so I am debating whether I want to change my seat to F. Anyway finger crossed no drama until departure date!

After being told several times that my itinerary is invalid as it is back tracking and exceeds the MPM, I finally found an agent that put my booking through so they are all ticketed (I checked on CX and JL website and all flights are confirmed) The only "problem" is that there was only 1 F seat...

I just test it on both my wife's and my accounts - I did a 50k+50k gift from my wife's to mine last night as I thought max per account is 50k regardless of gift/buy. After I did that I went back to my account and noticed that I could buy 50k+50k again! So this morning I bought 14k + 7k another...

Thanks MEL_Traveller. I thought the cap is 50k as well but then I found out you can transfer 50k and gift 50k per account, which means that you can get a total of 200k each across two accounts. Just did 30k+30k for both accounts - now I just need to ring them up to get the booking locked in...

If I am making award redemption for me and my wife and the booking costs 120k miles per person, do I need to have all 240k miles in one account or I can get the USDM agent to take 120k miles from each account? Right now I have the flights on hold under my USDM account but I presume I can just...

I would just call USDM and give that a go - you never know what is possible.

Did you try searching them on BA instead? I did my research on BA and it showed all the correct JL availability

I got dropped off twice whilst they put me on hold. On the 3rd successful call, the agent actually suggested the direct NRT-TPE flight at first but I told him that I would prefer to travel in F so won't mind transiting in HKG. He just put that through without questioning. The booking on USDM...

Fingers crossed indeed! Could it still be rejected if the agent has priced it and put the booking on hold in the system?

Tried my luck today and all stars must have aligned - with a few HUACA I managed to put the following reservation on hold: SYD - NRT (JL) F HND - HKG (CX) F - TPE (CX) J on the following day TPE - HKG (CX) F with a stop-over in HKG HKG - NRT (CX) J - SYD (JL) F 240k miles for 2 with $499 tax...

Thanks for the explanation - that all make sense. Now I just need to find award seats for HKG-SYD. Might just have to fly with MH via KUL if nothin pops up for QF/CX