Eva Air

[Matty 0]

Gus,

 

Be careful to check the rules on mixing and matching transferred miles with your own.

 

I have been reading up on doing exactly this ...

 

My buddy has 70k in miles and has no plans to use them so was prepared to come to a arrangement with me .

 

Upon reading all the rules it seems u cannot combine them with existing mileage for a free ticket or combine them for card renewal ,you cant even book a one way award ticket with Eva miles !!

 

Apart from me using them for a cabin upgrade and they only allow you to go one class up they are pretty worthless.

 

If any of you guys have any better ideas lets hear them pls .

 

Cheers

 

Matty

[Gus 97]

UK members be aware when booking your flight through Eva Air.

 

So you get free National Express tickets when booking through Ours Travel, WestEast travel etc, but if you book direct on the Eva website you are not eligible for free coach tickets.

I booked direct and paid about 20 quid more because you get a few extra FF miles but then found out about no bus tickets.

Next time I will go back to Ours or WestEast.

I shall just have to do more eating and drinking in the Lounge at LHR to get my money back

[exwannabe 1]

I'm in the middle of my 16'th trip here (th) and am quite anal about airline ticket value (including miles and given that I will not cross the Pacific in economy).

 

The two best value choices are almost always EVA (if Delux is OK by you) or CI. For biz class it's about a tie.

 

I have had no problem using my EVA miles for both a new ticket and an upgrade, but I'd plan carefully.

 

This trip was made on short notice (1 week) and the Delux ticket on a 747 cost $1080 rt from SFO all in. Not a bad price. If I fly biz, can get a ticket for about $2000 on either EVA or CI as long as fly BKK->USA->BKK as normal.

 

I have not yet tried flying trans-pac on the 777 exec economy, I know it will not be as good as in the 747.