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Booked a unicorn.

 

ANA Business class with their "The Room" Cabin.

HND - JFK for Aug'25.

 

Had to fork a little extra miles than just DEL - JFK and will have to reposition to HND by spending time and money.

But this has been on the bucket list and booking this is almost impossible.

 

Notes:

1. Cost: 110k United miles + 4k in taxes.

2. The same flight is going for 7.22L INR in revenue, assuming a post set-off cost of 7.2L, i.e. a value of 6.54 INR per mile.

3. I am tempted to instead jump on DEL - JFK if SQ J opens up as it costs the same amount but without repositioning. Not as much of a unicorn but one of the top 3.

Will take a call when I see one.

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2 hours ago, LordSpymaster said:

How many spends in INR lead you to the 110K miles? Which card(s)? 

This is from the Magnus Golden Era.

 

Nowadays, it's quite difficult, assume that at max you will get 4-5% miles on your purchase.

10-15% if you use accelerated options.

You will need a mix of Amex, some thing from Axis.

 

If you have a huge spend coming up then maybe Magnus Burgundy will make sense but that needs patience.

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1 hour ago, LordSpymaster said:

Hmm yeah. 

I just hold a DCB, Amex Gold Charge, MRCC, Sapphiro and try to maximise the 2 Amex cards first for the Taj vouchers. Then drop everything else on the DCB and keep ICICI for backup / BMS.

You should get Plat Travel and put 4L on it. It's the most rewarding Amex card. You will get 40k MR and then a Taj voucher.

Use it with your other cards to build balance and try to use United or Marriot Transfer.

Always ready to provide a referral if someone needs one.

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18 hours ago, KunjanPSD said:

You should get Plat Travel and put 4L on it. It's the most rewarding Amex card. You will get 40k MR and then a Taj voucher.

Use it with your other cards to build balance and try to use United or Marriot Transfer.

Always ready to provide a referral if someone needs one.

Yeah, I am scaling up slowly. Got the gold charge few months back so planning to try it for a year first, see the offers on renewal fees and then decide about completing the trifecta. 

18 hours ago, KunjanPSD said:

DCB still has SQ as 1:1 but SQ has higher mileage and mostly best for SA.

 

Let me know your South Korea itinerary and the stays you decide.

No stays decided yet, I might try for the 25th show tickets first (Hoping for the right or left green seating)

18 hours ago, 0verlord said:

I recently got Amex Gold charge card. Have you tried to get Amex to waive off the annual fees? Do they? Or do they offer anything else instead?

Not yet, have not completed the first year till now.

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18 hours ago, 0verlord said:

I recently got Amex Gold charge card. Have you tried to get Amex to waive off the annual fees? Do they? Or do they offer anything else instead?


they used to waive it off if you called them and told that you’ll cancel the card. Used to work 10 years ago but their bonus MR points are such that you’ll almost overshoot the annual spend waiver threshold. 

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2 hours ago, dylanjosh said:

Regala Gold worth getting?? 

Yes it is, specially seeing now ICICI also just devalued there cards.

 

75K quarterly spend now for lounge access...

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4 hours ago, 0verlord said:

Recently They massively increased per month in-hand salary requirement for Infinia

How much is it?

Anyways apart from @AtheK I don't think anyone here would fulfill that criteria!

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