Planning a trip to Ireland later this year and looking to take advantage of the Bilt transfer bonus today to Avios. Seems like you can’t pick a seat at booking on points but if you call they will assign you one. Anyone run into issues with this?
Cash price is $944 for the flight I’m looking at and 20k points + $123 tax on points.
So I’m coming out to over 4 cents a point after netting out the taxes from the $944 (20k points equivalent to $821) - which I think is a phenomenal rate for an international flight to Europe.
I know that conventional wisdom is that business class is the best pure $ to points value out there but as long as I have an aisle seat I will be fine for an international flight and would rather save the raw points.
But hence the reason for the post…down to pay a little bit or more points to ensure aisle seat
Thanks!