I’m attempting to book an Etihad EY business class J award using virgin points (VA) for SYD to Europe (LHR or elsewhere) for Jun/Jul this year. EY shows many available awards via their site, but nothing is showing up on VA.
Anyone had any luck recently? VA has Y awards but no J.
Here are the Carrier surcharges for EY:I've been looking at flights from SIN to Europe in May or June and there are EY awards coming up, but you still have to pay quite a bit of cash on top of the points which is a bit of a kick in the gut, and reduces the valuation of the points. I think from memory they were asking about $500 on top
Note that these fees are per sector eg SYD-AUH-CDG return in J, carrier fees would be 4xUSD430 on top of usual taxesHere are the Carrier surcharges for EY:
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Yep. They beat EK ripping off QFF by a couple of years!So 2K AUD Plus normal taxes….. what a rip off
Thanks very much. Unfortunately because I don’t have any Etihad points balance, the Etihad website won’t allow me to see what type of award booking it is.I find it very hard to believe many awards are available from Etihad.
You need to be able to book "Guest Seat" awards on the Etihad website.
Note the difference below.
GuestSeat available;
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No GuestSeat available
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I didn't log in. Go to the Etihad Guest website to search.
Thanks AC website is a lot more user friendly!I didn't log in. Go to the Etihad Guest website to search.
Alternatively you can use Air Canada (select book with points) to search as well.