Some legs with points, some with cash..

[Chuq]

Just putting the feelers out to get people's experiences here...

I'm looking at going to London in August next year. I currently have enough VFF points to get a reward seat on MEL-AUH or SYD-AUH return (or rather, will in a couple of months). Is it worth booking these flights with points and then booking the legs at either end (I'd be going HBA-MEL/SYD-AUH-LHR) separately? (domestic leg would be about $200, AUH-LHR about $850-1000). Does the call centre accommodate requests like this if I were to book through them?

 

[greenfish]

You might find it is better value to fly one way to the UK on points, then buy a one way flight back.... cash cost won't be much different to what you've mentioned, and points are only 62500 rather than 94000 for the AUH return.

 

[adam15]

MH was surprisingly quite cheap from IST to MEL/SYD one way $600 ish with a free KUL stopover when I checked 2 weeks ago. It was only cheap coming back. Going out was not attractive at all.

 

[paultiffen]

It's really cheap to kul too and a handy one to know about

 

[greenfish]

No flights showing on MH IST-KUL past the 30th of June 2014, I wonder if they're dropping the route or just haven't loaded flights yet...