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Best Use of Atlas Reward points

raviemailid

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Okay, so you have done the expense and collected reward points (or miles as Atlas prefers to call) in your kitty. How best can you utilize it? For the beginners, there are two ways of using the miles -

  1. Go to https://edgerewards.axisbank.co.in/lms/home and use your miles to get gift coupons. The reward rate typically is 5:1, meaning 5 points for 1 rupee of gift voucher. Some may be good, some bad, but it is never 1:1. This is also the portal to see all your RPs and see which transaction is giving you how much.
  2. Go to https://traveledge.axisbank.co.in/TE/home, where you'll go for your extra flight and hotel booking miles and use the points and miles transfer section to convert your miles to other hotel and flight chains. You can convert your miles to 1:2 here, meaning 1 mile is equal to 2 points for the respective hotel/flight. This is what we all end up doing.
But the problem here is that all the hotels and flights don't treat their points on an equal term. So 1 point of FlyingReturns doesn't mean 1 rupee while booking a flight. (it'll mean less).

Most of the flight partners give lower value of 1 point except maybe KrisFlyer and ClubVistara (people can correct me here). My advice is to never convert your miles to airline points. It gives you a very poor return. Also, those airline points can only be used for your own travel as the points are tied to the airline ID.

The benefit is actually in transferring to a hotel and among all the hotel Accor works the best and IHG and Marriott Bonvoy are the worst. ClubITC give you a fair 1:1 value of points and room cost. So if you have 5000 miles, you'll get 10000 points when transferring to Club ITC and if you're trying to book a room worth 10k, you can use all of your points and book it. This ratio is 1:0.5 in IHG and Bonvoy, resulting in a very poor value. I have 10k points in IHG and I am looking forward to ways to utilize it better.

Accor give you 1:1.8 value on your points. So if you send 5k miles to accor, you'll get 10k points. And each point is equal to 1.8 rupee so you can use 10k points to book hotel room worth 18000.

So from all the analysis so far - ACCOR works best, followed by ITC. Rest all are worthless, resulting in Atlas points to be meaningless unless you want to use it for these two partners.
 
This is an hypothetical scenario which I want to express for a long time.. Even though I mentioned several times that redemption value can only be derived after actual redemption happend and compared with prices at that time on known portals. But seems like people most of the time focussing only on what they can see rather what they get..

An example for food for thought:

Hotel A: Offered item 'Omelette' for 100rs. which you can redeem for 100 points.
Hotel B: Offered same item 'Omelette' for 300rs. which you can redeem for 100 points.

Note: Both hotels are similar category, available in nearby locations but brand, and other facilities may vary.

Now, should you consider 1 point = 1rs. or 1 point = 3rs.? and based on that say Hotel (A/B) works best? and other is worthless?
This is the trick quoted by many influencers on social media, especially YouTube.
so they show the value of the Mariott point to be well over 1 rupee, so that they can get newbies to buy Amex cards in order to get referral commission
 
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This is the trick quoted by all those YouTube influencers on social media
so they show the value of the Mariott point to be well over 1 rupee, so that they can get newbies to buy Amex cards in order to get referral commission

I agree. If anyone claims they can get ₹2 for each Marriott point, that is their personal redemption value and applies only to them.

IMO, if anyone wants to assume a general value for Marriott points before redemption, it should be approximately ₹0.50 per point. This is the value that most people typically achieve.
 
I agree. If anyone claims they can get ₹2 for each Marriott point, that is their personal redemption value and applies only to them.

IMO, if anyone wants to assume a general value for Marriott points before redemption, it should be approximately ₹0.50 per point. This is the value that most people typically achieve.
According to my calculation it is 43 paisa
 
In the guide, Qantas is 1.9 cents, Accor is 3 cents, almost 58% more.

But I have travelled Qantas and I am on their frequent flyer program.
I also stayed in Accor hotels

I value Qantas points at 63 paisa and Accor points at 1 rupee
Do you know if one can book/upgrade a reward ticket on Qantas for a partner airlines like American or Hawaiian,using edge miles transferred to their program, without ever having flown a Qantas flight?
 
Kya karu me itna dhan rashi ka?
What should I do with so many Atlas points?

I currently earn around 10,000 miles per month on my Atlas card, but I’m unsure how to maximize their value beyond the standard 1 point = 1 rupee redemption.


Mostly booking flights for others.
Open to using them for a vacation if I can get better value.
Willing to sell them if that offers a better return.
Would appreciate some guidance! 🙏
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Kya karu me itna dhan rashi ka?
What should I do with so many Atlas points?

I currently earn around 10,000 miles per month on my Atlas card, but I’m unsure how to maximize their value beyond the standard 1 point = 1 rupee redemption.


Mostly booking flights for others.
Open to using them for a vacation if I can get better value.
Willing to sell them if that offers a better return.
Would appreciate some guidance! 🙏
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transfer it to Accor, Marriott for ur hotel stay and for flight u can check united, Qatar, Aeroplan. and book ur apr/may vacation for 1person. If more than 1pp then either book flight or hotel
 
If you have a Burgundy account, you can request the relationship manager to give you Atlas lifetime free.
but its really not a good idea because 2500 miles given as joining benefit is worth more than 5900 joining fee
I tried this with my RM with Burgundy account but didn't get it. I am not going to use Accor. And will mostly go with clubitc or Marriot. So, 2500 points will be worth no more than 5000. Moreover, i may not use these points immediately. So, it loses worth further.
 
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