While Air India Flying Returns has been getting a lot of heat past few weeks due to the sudden restructuring of their program, they just gave a sweetener to all their members to perhaps soften the blow.
Between March 14, 2016 to April 28, 2016 you can redeem flights on Air India network (domestic and international), for a 40% discount on the number of miles required, as long as you are travelling on a weekday (Monday – Thursday). This promotion makes travel very cheap on miles in case you are able to make plans to travel on a weekday. Here are some illustrations Air India shares:
The discount is valid on all classes of travel, and makes it easy to redeem for premium cabins at a large discount. For instance, a BOM-EWR first class which usually goes for 200K miles one way between BOM-EWR, is now available at 120K Air India miles.
Since the new redemption structure was put in place, there is no requirement to pay fuel surcharges, and all you are supposed to pay is airport taxes and other charges.
You can only redeem these points on AI flights, and not on codeshares or other partner airlines for Star Alliance flights. Additionally, the discount is valid only for travel between March 14, 2016 to April 28, 2016 for travel on Monday – Thursday. Tickets have become as cheap as 3,000 Air India Flying Returns miles.
Bottomline
This is a great promotion from Air India and if you can make it work for yourself or your family, you should.
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Ajay, Has AI stopped flying the dreamliner on Del Blr Sector ?
Sweet. I have 2 return trips on the Del Blr Sector till mid April. I checked the US sectors for late April but it shows only 1st class availability for most days
Used it for Blr-DXB return trip.
but Air India website is so bad, that just to verify that I got the discounted rate; i had to logout and go to redeem miles page to find out, what was original miles required.
no where in redeem page, they mention about the % saving. they just show the discounted rate.
@Santosh why do you need a comparison. the rules are clear and you get the discount when you follow the rules.
Just wish they had done this a little earlier. Good deal on BLR – DEL next week.
@ajay I am trying to login to my account after filling up all the details/ in email ID it is showing the following error. kindly suggest
Email: * Duplicate information found on the following fields: Email Address
Re-enter Email: *
@agrawal there are more than one accounts with your email on it.
yes me and my wife had a common email login id earlier
will same email will work or not?
@agrawal does not work anymore
Is this valid on upgrade redemptions as well?
@Manish no
F.I.R.