OK I can see there is ever increasing interest by so many in these cheap MEL-PVG / SYD-PVG flights I thought I might give you guys an insight into MU's FF program - Eastern Miles.
Earlier this year when I first saw MU offering $2,300 ret J MEL-PVG I dug a bit deeper to check. In April I decided to stick my toe in the water and decided to try this just to see how good / bad it was. Prior to paying for first flt I checked their FF program and noticed a couple of enticing promos:
1. Double points for miles flown + tier bonus equated to 2.5pts / mile flown
2. 50% discount on pts required to redeem MEL-PVG flts.
The upshot was that at that particular time I needed to fly 2 x return J and throw in a few dom flts then i would have sufficient pts to redeem another ret J flt MEL-PVG - so basically 2 x $2,300 plus about $1,200 in dom flts which I was going to spend anyway would reap me another $2,300 ret MEL-PVG J flt for ZERO - I kinda thought that was a good deal - 3 ret MEL-PVG flts ave cost $1,533.
So I joined EM on 18/04/2011 and received my temorary membership card in mail about 1 week later. I took 2 ret J flts in Apr and May. End of June the
fockers withdrew the 50% discount to redeem so I missed that - then I took a further flight in Aug and also missed the double pts so tier netted me 1.5pt / mile.
I called CE several times trying to get them to send me out the real membership card but to no avail - yesterday in the mail it arrived - so this is what an Eastern Miles membership card looks like:
and this is the covering letter included:
And just in case you guys cannot understand the structure of the Eastern Miles program then this should explain it for you:
And also included was the obligatory Membership Guide:
