Interpreting the Thai Award chart

[burmans]

As both Matt and Pointhacks suggest Thai could be a good destination for MR points that I am looking for a home for with the looming devaluation. Having trouble interpreting the Thai chart though.

We have friends whose son is getting married just oustdie Chang Mai in January and 98K for return in business sounds reasonable but unclear if this is BKK - Australia and we'd have to pay BKK- Chang Mai seperately or would be included in the award.

Anyone done this, i.e. include a domestic flight within Thailand on a rewards redemption?

 

[MEL_Traveller]

As both Matt and Pointhacks suggest Thai could be a good destination for MR points that I am looking for a home for with the looming devaluation. Having trouble interpreting the Thai chart though.

We have friends whose son is getting married just oustdie Chang Mai in January and 98K for return in business sounds reasonable but unclear if this is BKK - Australia and we'd have to pay BKK- Chang Mai seperately or would be included in the award.

Anyone done this, i.e. include a domestic flight within Thailand on a rewards redemption?

It's distance based and as the connection to CNX would add 369 miles, this may push it into the next category, or 130K miles for the return flight.

Example:

• MEL-BKK = 4564 miles = the 98K category
• MEL-BKK-CNX = 4915 = the 130K category

It's the same with SYD/BNE - the connection pushes it into the next category, and for PER as well (although the flight to BKK is only 75K, the connection to CNX pushes it up into the next category of 98K)

(But you can have multiple flights within one band on the chart, as evidenced by the higher categories such as Australia-Europe which are clearly two flights.)

I'm not aware of any 'free' domestic connection - but worth checking with TG if in doubt.

 

[burmans]

Thanks, the published distance for SYD - BKK is 4679 miles so yes, this would bump up a category. Oh well, this is a time I feel grateful to have AA and Lifemiles points as an alternative (SQ as well but not competitive on this route).

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Thanks, the published distance for SYD - BKK is 4679 miles so yes, this would bump up a category. Oh well, this is a time I feel grateful to have AA and Lifemiles points as an alternative (SQ as well but not competitive on this route).

True. But TG round-trip BKK-CNX is as low as AUD89 (although January seems to be $107 or $53 each way). Business class $319 roundtrip.

 

[FreddyFattler]

Sorry to hijack, as i havent currently got any miles in ROP im unable to view the redemption pages etc, Any idea of what the taxes and fees are like on a SYD-BKK return ticket in J?

I think its the most likely place for my MR as i dont want to play the waitlist game with KF or AM

Cheers.

 

[FreddyFattler]

Any idea of what the taxes and fees are like on a SYD-BKK return ticket in J?

Quoting myself just to add info in case anyone else is considering TG for their MR before the “enhancement” but would like to know they’re not outrageous with their charges, Syd-BkK return is a smidge under $160 in taxes for J.

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