by Lufthansa Flyer | Apr 3, 2014 | Featured, Lufthansa, Miles & More |
‘Meilenschnäeppchen’ or ‘Mileage Bargains’ is a monthly promotion offered by Miles & More that typically discounts award travel by 50%. What is normally a 105,000 mile redemption for a Business Class seat becomes 55,000 miles and a 60,000 mile Economy Class ticket becomes only 30,000 miles! It’s one of the best redemption deals out there for travel between the USA and Europe.
For the month of April, there are nearly 150 destinations available from the US to Lufthansa destinations throughout Europe, Russia and the Mideast with 2 sets of eligible travel dates. One set requires travel to take place between April 8 through mid-May/early June while the second set of options cover travel from August 1 to August 30. The current month’s offerings will expire on April 30, but book sooner than later since these bargains are limited. The sooner you book, the better the chances of you finding the seats.
When you visit the ‘Meilen Schnaeppchen’ website, you’ll see that there is a drop down menu in the top right corner that lets you select country of origin for your travels. You’ll literally have 1000’s of possible combinations to choose from. For example, there are many ‘germanwings’ options for travel within Europe for only 10,000 miles!
If you find yourself short of miles, with no imminent travel plans that would earn miles, you may want to consider applying for the Premier Miles & More World MasterCard so that you can take advantage of future Miles & More deals thanks to the bonus miles you would earn with the card. With the current offer, new cardholders will earn 20,000 miles after an initial purchase and an additional 15,000 miles if a balance is transferred from another card.
Additional perks include a FREE companion ticket after an initial purchase with the card and on each account anniversary date thereafter and there are NO FOREIGN TRANSACTION FEES for using the card abroad. You’ll earn 2 miles per dollar spent booking travel on a Miles & More partner airline and 1 mile per dollar spent on all other purchases. The annual fee is waived if you are a Senator or HON level elite.
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by Lufthansa Flyer | Apr 2, 2014 | Airlines, Austrian, Contests, Featured |
AUSTRIAN is running a fantastic contest to celebrate their ‘Tashcerl’ amenity kit that is available on Austrian long haul flights. The contest is available through their Facebook website and is easy to enter.
Basically, AUSTRIAN’s Facebook visitors will enter the contest and vote for one of 3 destinations: New York, Ibiza or Bangkok. When the contest ends, a winner will be selected and will be awarded 2 Economy Class tickets to the destination that received the highest vote count. If you are reading this in the USA, here is a hint – don’t vote for New York! 🙂 Vote for something far more exciting and exotic!
Vote for your favorite destination, you may end up winning a trip to it! 🙂
In addition to the Grand Prize, 50 other winners will win an authentic Austrian Tascherl amenity kit.
The contest will run until April 13, 2014 with the winner being announced on April 16, 2014.
As far as participation rules are concerned, the contest is open to everyone EXCEPT those living in France or Italy.
by Lufthansa Flyer | Apr 1, 2014 | Airlines, Business Class, Featured |
EDIT: Initially I wrote about Business Fare deals only to Italy, but after looking at more options, other European destinations such as Paris and London have similar deals available!
EDIT 2: This is not a Fare error situation. The fares are valid as long as seats are available.
This certainly looks to be a fantastic but short term offer, but for the time being you can book BUSINESS CLASS travel on Lufthansa from the USA to several cities in EUROPE for only $1500 R/T. This is about 25-30% of what the normal Business Class fare would be between the US and Italy. It’s almost like getting Business Class for the price of economy!
When pricing like this happens, it may be very short lived so you may want to take advantage of the deals in the next few hours. Looking at sample bookings, available is fairly wide open from late June through early August and a variety of cities in Europe seem to be eligible, including Paris, Rome, Venice, London and others.
Let me know if you have any luck taking advantage of some excellent pricing! It looks like booking is also possible Swiss, Austrian, Brussels, United and Air Canada.
Looks like a 60 day advance ticket purchase is required as well as a Saturday or Sunday night stay.
H/T – Pat with a bunch of #’s!
