A narrow escape... and a question about reward flights
Posted: 29 Jan 2017, 00:52Evening all,
Phew is all I can say... after coming perilously close to booking an Easter flight to Lanzarote with Ryanair (austerity measures don't you know...), lo and behold, I spot 4 miles flights to BGI that have popped up in prime school holiday time. Bingo!
So, normal service has sort of returned to the RC household, apart from the fact that we are all in Y right now. And my body really isn't Y shaped (stop sniggering at the back please).
So my question, are there any decent tools out there that I could employ to track and alert me to any PE or UC miles availability that might come up? Or am I just going to have to keep doing hourly searches on that disaster of a website for the next 2 months?
<Rant On> Oh and while we are on the subject, it beggars belief that VS still can't manage miles bookings including children online. And then when you phone them, they still really can't manage it because they insist on charging APD for the children with a vague promise of a refund later on. Seriously?
<Rant Off>
Anyway, thanks for any advice. It's been 6 years since my last trip to Barbados so I must admit that I'm rather excited. Now I just have to find somewhere to stay...
RC
P.S. by the way, I know that the received wisdom is that Y reward flights tend to be a waste of miles, but in effect I saved £2060 off the cash flight price for 160k of miles, which I didn't think was terrible value overall. And it means that I'm not flying Ryanair. To Lanzarote. So there.
Phew is all I can say... after coming perilously close to booking an Easter flight to Lanzarote with Ryanair (austerity measures don't you know...), lo and behold, I spot 4 miles flights to BGI that have popped up in prime school holiday time. Bingo!
So, normal service has sort of returned to the RC household, apart from the fact that we are all in Y right now. And my body really isn't Y shaped (stop sniggering at the back please).
So my question, are there any decent tools out there that I could employ to track and alert me to any PE or UC miles availability that might come up? Or am I just going to have to keep doing hourly searches on that disaster of a website for the next 2 months?
<Rant On> Oh and while we are on the subject, it beggars belief that VS still can't manage miles bookings including children online. And then when you phone them, they still really can't manage it because they insist on charging APD for the children with a vague promise of a refund later on. Seriously?
<Rant Off>Anyway, thanks for any advice. It's been 6 years since my last trip to Barbados so I must admit that I'm rather excited. Now I just have to find somewhere to stay...
RC
P.S. by the way, I know that the received wisdom is that Y reward flights tend to be a waste of miles, but in effect I saved £2060 off the cash flight price for 160k of miles, which I didn't think was terrible value overall. And it means that I'm not flying Ryanair. To Lanzarote. So there.
