Europe Trip Flight Cost Estimation

[Enigmatic]

Hello there,

I have been a holder of an Axis Bank credit card since January 2023, and currently, I have accumulated 70,000 points. I will also be receiving an additional 75,000 bonus points for the months of February, March, and April. This means that I will have a total of at least 150,000 points, which I can convert into air miles, amounting to 120,000 miles.

I am curious to know if these points are sufficient for me to book a round-trip flight from India to Italy using air miles. If anyone has booked flight tickets using air miles, could you please let me know the approximate cost?

Thank you.

 

[Ravi007]

Successfully got 30k miles transferred to the Miles & smiles ffp (one way). Took 2 days to settle. Will book the tickets in July 🥹

Can we directly book flight from Turkish app or we need to call them and booked

 

[Venky]

Can we directly book flight from Turkish app or we need to call them and booked

You can do both

 

[Ravi007]

You can do both

Actually I read somewhere that some errors are coming while booking online

 

[Sharjeelshaikh]

Some noob questions here, as I've never done an award booking before. I have some points in Miles & More from a Swiss Air travel from before, who are a part of the Star Alliance. Does anyone know how can I transfer ERs to Swiss via Turkish? And what if I want to transfer all these points (including existing Swiss points) to Lufthansa? Or perhaps I can transfer to Turkish for now and club points from both Turkish and Swiss for a Lufthansa award flight at checkout?

Swiss is not partner of axis so er cannot be transferred to swiss.lufthansa too i think is not part of axis partner.what u can do is book ur Europe's tour with Turkish using Er with a pit stop. In istanbul.u won't need Turkish visa as pnr would be same for eg del ist ist zrh

 

[Venky]

Actually I read somewhere that some errors are coming while booking online

Yes but sometimes reaching the customer care is also a problem. I think you should try online first.

 

[bonheur]

Swiss is not partner of axis so er cannot be transferred to swiss.lufthansa too i think is not part of axis partner.what u can do is book ur Europe's tour with Turkish using Er with a pit stop. In istanbul.u won't need Turkish visa as pnr would be same for eg del ist ist zrh

Got it. I thought Star Alliance members would allow using points on other member airline bookings.

 

[Sharjeelshaikh]

Got it. I thought Star Alliance members would allow

Got it. I thought Star Alliance members would allow using points on other member airline bookings.

U can transfer ER to Turkish and Turkish miles to Swiss or Lufthansa but as it is u loose conversion 5:4 ER TO Turkish and if u convert Turkish to Swiss or Lufthansa then again u loose in conversion .isse accha hai fly Turkish it flies with max connection worldwide especially Europe .like i said as long as pnr is same on both legs of journey u don't need seperate Turkish visa .but u suggest turkey bhi ghoom lo very nice place.i assume u must be holding Schengen visa with a valid Schengen visa u get evisa of turkey in one hour time

 

[004archit]

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U can transfer ER to Turkish and Turkish miles to Swiss or Lufthansa but as it is u loose conversion 5:4 ER TO Turkish and if u convert Turkish to Swiss or Lufthansa then again u loose in conversion .isse accha hai fly Turkish it flies with max connection worldwide especially Europe .like i said as long as pnr is same on both legs of journey u don't need seperate Turkish visa .but u suggest turkey bhi ghoom lo very nice place.i assume u must be holding Schengen visa with a valid Schengen visa u get evisa of turkey in one hour time

You can’t book for other like you and your wife is travelling then I guess you can book for your wife.

 

[mojo_jojo123]

any referral offer in turkish air miles programme ?

 

[PSY]

How can we use HDFC smart buy points to book a flight to Amsterdam? I see there are few airlines like Turkish Airlines, Air France which operate in the same route. Which would be the most economical option for me? And approximately how many points would be needed for return trip (economy)?

 

[Sharjeelshaikh]

How can we use HDFC smart buy points to book a flight to Amsterdam? I see there are few airlines like Turkish Airlines, Air France which operate in the same route. Which would be the most economical option for me? And approximately how many points would be needed for return trip (economy)?

Klm se karlo direct from Mumbai and Delhi

 

[PSY]

Klm se karlo direct from Mumbai and Delhi

I checked KLM rates for Bangalore to Amsterdam. It’s coming around 1.5 times higher than Qatar airways. Isse better rates kisi aur airlines ne mil sakta hai ?

 

[Sharjeelshaikh]

I checked KLM rates for Bangalore to Amsterdam. It’s coming around 1.5 times higher than Qatar airways. Isse better rates kisi aur airlines ne mil sakta hai ?

Direct flight hai isliye expensive hai but redemption is one point and smooth

 

[rdargar]

Hey man, I’ll help you understand this a little better.

1) You can check the miles required for Turkish and United just by visiting their websites.
Turkish- Create an account, login, on right hand top you’ll see your name, click on it, then again on right side top you’ll see the menu icon, then miles transaction, scroll down a bit, and then you’ll see an option book now under the Star alliance award ticket tab. Then you can put in the details of your travel and it’ll show you the required miles.
United- Just visit them at united.com and tick the book with miles box, enter your details and it’ll show you the miles required that you need to book via United.

2) Some programs will need you to have miles in the account already before you could check the miles required. I just use two (above mentioned ones) and they don’t need you to transfer the miles before hand. But programs like Club Vistara do need you to have certain cv points before they show you the actual required miles for a ticket.

3) Award seats are the seats that are available to be booked using miles. There are very limited seats per flight to be booked using miles. Couldn’t understand what you meant about the ticket prices.

4) Every program has a different timeline. You’ll have to check before transferring. Max I think would be for hotel chains 7-10 days and avg 2-5 days for FFP’s. If its been longer than 2-5 days then you should definitely drop a mail to Axis and AirAsia.

I Venky , I hope you are doing good. I assume you have done all your bookings , wished to have a conversation with you , lmk if e can connect over telegram/whatsapp

 

[Venky]

I Venky , I hope you are doing good. I assume you have done all your bookings , wished to have a conversation with you , lmk if e can connect over telegram/whatsapp

No bookings man. Been more busy than expected. That booking of Europe turned to a long Himalchal trip.
I have kept those miles for now.