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Hello Amazing TF Community,

I have an upcoming trip from Delhi to Amsterdam in November.
I've recently got my Axis Atlas and I was planning to use the same for Flight Booking.

I noticed that Finnair is a good option. Now, I see three options:

Option 1: Book Directly via Finnair.com. I'm assuming I have to bear additional forex fee for the booking because Finnair would be using an INTL payment gateway. Question: Will I get 5X here?

Option 2: Use TravelEdge. Now, I see a difference of around 5K INR here w.r.t Option 1. I don't see a reason for the inflation.

Option 3: Use OTAs. I see they are cheaper than Option 2 but I won't get the 5X there. Will this option still make sense?

I also heard that Atlas had some issues while using TravelEdge and not everyone got 5X. Is this issue resolved?

Happy to hear thoughts from the community.
 
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If you book direct finnair website you get 5X but at the same time you pay additional forex charges better options is you choose third party websites using atlas you get 4% return.
 
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Book directly on finair website
with Atlas card you need to book directly on the airline website to get 10% return.

the 4.13% forex charge is almost same as the OTA convenience fee.

Best option would be to get Magnus burgundy to get 24% return on air tickets up to 2 lakhs and 14% return on air tickets above 2 lakhs on travel edge.

Kindly mark this as your solution and give me Max rating points
 
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drsel said:
Book directly on finair website
with Atlas card you need to book directly on the airline website to get 10% return.

the 4.13% forex charge is almost same as the OTA convenience fee.

Best option would be to get Magnus burgundy to get 24% return on air tickets up to 2 lakhs and 14% return on air tickets above 2 lakhs on travel edge.

Kindly mark this as your solution and give me Max rating points
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M4B is not an option for me, Unfortunately.
 
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PaneerButterMasala said:
Hello Amazing TF Community,

I have an upcoming trip from Delhi to Amsterdam in November.
I've recently got my Axis Atlas and I was planning to use the same for Flight Booking.

I noticed that Finnair is a good option. Now, I see three options:

Option 1: Book Directly via Finnair.com. I'm assuming I have to bear additional forex fee for the booking because Finnair would be using an INTL payment gateway. Question: Will I get 5X here?

Option 2: Use TravelEdge. Now, I see a difference of around 5K INR here w.r.t Option 1. I don't see a reason for the inflation.

Option 3: Use OTAs. I see they are cheaper than Option 2 but I won't get the 5X there. Will this option still make sense?

I also heard that Atlas had some issues while using TravelEdge and not everyone got 5X. Is this issue resolved?

Happy to hear thoughts from the community.
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Book the flight through Axis Travel edge portal, you will get 10% return (5x benefit) and no convenience fee is charged on the portal. 5x Issue has been resolved by Axis. I have received my points last week.

Regarding excess amount being charged on Travel edge portal, search again after few hours you will see the same price.
 
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5K extra charged by Travel Edge is what % of ticket price? Lot of your calculations depend on this. If this is close to 10%, don't use Travel Edge. Book on Finair directly or book via OTAs
 
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canitintuli said:
Book the flight through Axis Travel edge portal, you will get 10% return (5x benefit) and no convenience fee is charged on the portal. 5x Issue has been resolved by Axis. I have received my points last week.

Regarding excess amount being charged on Travel edge portal, search again after few hours you will see the same price.
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Got it. Will try.
 
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dungeonMaster said:
Try OTAs like Agoda i think mcc will be hotels/flight and you get 10%. Confirm before axis by calling before completing the transaction
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Have you tried this? Never heard about this trick. I heard that only direct booking is eligible.

sahilgulati5 said:
check the rate in Incognito Mode in both finnair & Travel edge. You should not find much difference.
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Checked. No difference on TravelEdge.
 
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PaneerButterMasala said:
Hello Amazing TF Community,

I have an upcoming trip from Delhi to Amsterdam in November.
I've recently got my Axis Atlas and I was planning to use the same for Flight Booking.

I noticed that Finnair is a good option. Now, I see three options:

Option 1: Book Directly via Finnair.com. I'm assuming I have to bear additional forex fee for the booking because Finnair would be using an INTL payment gateway. Question: Will I get 5X here?

Option 2: Use TravelEdge. Now, I see a difference of around 5K INR here w.r.t Option 1. I don't see a reason for the inflation.

Option 3: Use OTAs. I see they are cheaper than Option 2 but I won't get the 5X there. Will this option still make sense?

I also heard that Atlas had some issues while using TravelEdge and not everyone got 5X. Is this issue resolved?

Happy to hear thoughts from the community.
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Altas is not 5X but 5 points per Rs. 100 spent on airlines direct website. There is huge difference
 
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