Saturday, July 22, 2017

All that glitters is not gold...maybe Onyx?

Yesterday I discovered that Air Miles is soon offering a new deal as of August 13 th Air Miles will be able to be used to buy travel vouchers that can be used at a transait travel agent, such as Marlin Travel, Sell Off Vacations, Trip Central, Thomas and Carson are the agencies I am aware of.
For every $100 in vouchers it will cost 909 Air Miles.   This is a wonderful deal for me.  I am a teacher and when I am able to travel I always experience black out dates.   I have been there and felt the frustration summers, Christmas to visit family, long weekends, nope nadda for availability.

I almost booked my vacation yesterday with my Miles and would have been left paying the taxes, airport fees etc outside of Miles using cash. Almost 980$ oop. And  it was great until the lady told me about this deal and it can be used to cover the taxes. AWESOME!!!

This may not appear to be a great deal to some, let me break down my logic.

Air Miles advertises that New York has flights for 1125 miles. Anytime I can fly its peak season but I spent some time playing with it for fun. I was not able to find flights to this point level but did find flights for 1463 miles which is awesome! The taxes is $143 still great deal, but none of these are direct flights. They stop in either Toronto, Montreal or Boston and are 5 to 7 hours flying time each way.  I bought a direct flight in May for $500 which was about 2 hours 15 minutes each way for a direct  flight for the low miles can be a challenge, and you need travel flexibility.  I prefer direct flights if the difference is $300 or less. When I'm on vacation I want to get to my destination quickly for more discovery time. If the price was more than $300 in difference  I will explore the shortest milk route for the lower price.
EQUATE DEALS WITH THE PRICE OF YOUR TIME

I have another exception. If you have a lot of time for your trip I encourage the lay overs and call and ask for a night lay over so you have time to explore a new city for just the cost of a hotel room. Now that's a great deal!

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