TAP miles purchase

[burmans]

Anyone have views on this offer, havent investigated thoroughly myself but on the face of it certainly seems like I should!

How To Buy Star Alliance Miles Super Cheap, Just $0.0065 Apiece (Act By November 30) - View from the Wing

A ‘Club Platinum’ subscription for 899 euros (US$982) gets you: 54,000 miles up front 8,000 miles per month that’s 150,000 miles total, plus silver status, premium boarding, and 400 status miles per month.

viewfromthewing.com

 

[Gold Member]

Anyone have views on this offer, havent investigated thoroughly myself but on the face of it certainly seems like I should!

How To Buy Star Alliance Miles Super Cheap, Just $0.0065 Apiece (Act By November 30) - View from the Wing

A ‘Club Platinum’ subscription for 899 euros (US$982) gets you: 54,000 miles up front 8,000 miles per month that’s 150,000 miles total, plus silver status, premium boarding, and 400 status miles per month.

viewfromthewing.com

I did a little bit of digging a couple of days ago when I first saw that article.

TP has gutted their partner awards with massive and unannounced devaluations in the past few years. Nevertheless, based on my research, the only decent points redemption for Ozzie’s is one-way to/from USA in Business with Emirates for 130K. And they don’t pass on fuel surcharges like Qantas does. I got excited when I discovered this, until I read further on FT that Emirates has been blocking long haul business awards to TP for a few years now.

There are some good business redemptions elsewhere, but not cracking deals. TP seems to be paying for the lowest level awards (ala Lifemiles) hence very limited availability with the decent Star Alliance carriers and destinations you want to fly to.

I didn’t look into the Star Alliance Gold status as this doesn’t interest me that much.

On the surface it seems like a great deal. But I just don’t trust TP, their booking engine, their customer service and more importantly the lack of award availability (which btw you can’t check until you have miles in your account) to take the plunge. If any anyone else does, please keep us abreast of your efforts.

 

[jase05]

I did a little bit of digging a couple of days ago when I first saw that article.

TP has gutted their partner awards with massive and unannounced devaluations in the past few years. Nevertheless, based on my research, the only decent points redemption for Ozzie’s is one-way to/from USA in Business with Emirates for 130K. And they don’t pass on fuel surcharges like Qantas does. I got excited when I discovered this, until I read further on FT that Emirates has been blocking long haul business awards to TP for a few years now.

There are some good business redemptions elsewhere, but not cracking deals. TP seems to be paying for the lowest level awards (ala Lifemiles) hence very limited availability with the decent Star Alliance carriers and destinations you want to fly to.

I didn’t look into the Star Alliance Gold status as this doesn’t interest me that much.

On the surface it seems like a great deal. But I just don’t trust TP, their booking engine, their customer service and more importantly the lack of award availability (which btw you can’t check until you have miles in your account) to take the plunge. If any anyone else does, please keep us abreast of your efforts.

There is also the possibility that IAG buy out TP and move them into the Avios cartel. Think we will see a bit change in the European market in the coming years