I am in the process of planning a UK/Ireland trip in April/May 2017 and have come up with an idea I would like to get some feedback from the more experienced KF flyers as it is too early to call KF to test it out.
Now as we all know there is no F out of PER which can make it difficult to find married sectors for mixed class redemptions.
So I was thinking of calling to book a J fare with a stop over and paying the $100USD fee.
Then saying I would like to change the SIN-LHR leg to F and pay the difference in points for this segment. Last time I had a successful mixed redemption KF agent put the booking under two separate PNRs to get around it so I may suggest this as an option as I am hoping that this may get around the married sector requirement.
So after the 15% discount is applied (because of course there is no way of doing this online) hopefully this would result in a points cost of 95,625 instead of 97,750 for a straight mixed J/F award.
I think I am going to need one of your KF Superstars though Cruiser, how long until your new protegee is back from leave?
Workings:
PER - LHR J 85,000
PER - LHR F 115,000
SIN - LHR J 80,000
SIN - LHR F 107,500
Difference 27,500
PER - SIN J - LHR F = 85,000 + 27,500 = 112,500
Minus 15% discount = 95,625
Now my other challenge is to drop the UK departure tax from my intended LHR-AUH EY Apartments flight. I thought I had it with buying some points from AA and departing from DUB on BA to transfer in LHR but the points devalution from March isn't helping the numbers there.