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Questions about booking my first award flight

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I need help with booking my first award flight
1) i have earned 77,000 edge reward points via axis select credit card
2) i got axis magnus credit card 1 week ago
3) i want to book a return ticket from mumbai to hong kong after couple of months

Can i use the 77,000 ER to book this flight ticket ?
What will the ratio of conversion from ER to miles ?


Thank You
 
This is a very open-ended question. But, I shall give you a scenario here. You have yet to mention whether you want to travel in Economy or Business. That is a major decision point.

If you want to book a non-stop flight from Bombay to Hong Kong using miles/points in economy class, your only option is Cathay Pacific, which is a One World airline. To book you should go through Qatar Airways, the only one-world partner airline available with Axis points. You need to transfer your Avios points to British Airways from QR (both use the same currency), as QR charges 35,000 Avios for economy and 70,000 for business class. Transferring the Avios from QR to BA allows you to book the same flight for 13,000 miles and roughly $140 in taxes. But the same flight has a cash fare of Rs 25892 in economy (one-way) when booked directly through CX- one-way international tickets may be expensive while paying cash, so if paying cash, book roundtrip.
If you are okay with having a stopover, you can fly on Singapore airlines, which has a cash fare of Rs 29,037 for a BOM-HKG-BOM roundtrip.

P.S: The flight costs quoted were checked for random dates of June 13 to June 17.

It's important to consider your constraints and preferences when deciding to whether to pay with miles or cash and whether to travel in economy or business class. Also for your last question, since you have a Magnus card, you can transfer ER points to partners at a ratio of 5:4.
 
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This is a very open-ended question. But, I shall give you a scenario here. You have yet to mention whether you want to travel in Economy or Business. That is a major decision point.

If you want to book a non-stop flight from Bombay to Hong Kong using miles/points in economy class, your only option is Cathay Pacific, which is a One World airline. To book you should go through Qatar Airways, the only one-world partner airline available with Axis points. You need to transfer your Avios points to British Airways from QR (both use the same currency), as QR charges 35,000 Avios for economy and 70,000 for business class. Transferring the Avios from QR to BA allows you to book the same flight for 13,000 miles and roughly $140 in taxes. But the same flight has a cash fare of Rs 25892 in economy (one-way) when booked directly through CX- one-way international tickets may be expensive while paying cash, so if paying cash, book roundtrip.
If you are okay with having a stopover, you can fly on Singapore airlines, which has a cash fare of Rs 29,037 for a BOM-HKG-BOM roundtrip.

P.S: The flight costs quoted were checked for random dates of June 13 to June 17.

It's important to consider your constraints and preferences when deciding to whether to pay with miles or cash and whether to travel in economy or business class. Also for your last question, since you have a Magnus card, you can transfer ER points to partners at a ratio of 5:4.
Thank You for explaining
1) I want to travel in Economy class
2) I dont mind 1 stop flights
 
I just checked award flights are available from Cathay Pacific and also from Singapore Airlines
but British Airways is charging a lot in taxes compared to Singapore Airlines
even after using miles on the Cathay Pacific flight i only get a discount of 20 to 30% compared to 80% discount on Singapore Airlines

Is their a better way to book Cathay Pacific flight using ER ?

Thank You
 
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