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Can you Miles Boost before taking a flight?

PostPosted: 12 Feb 2016, 08:53
by Maximus
I was reading Head for Points this morning. On there it was suggested that you could miles boost before taking your booked flights.

I have flights booked this year (both M to G upgrades) to Miami and Washington/NYC.

Can I take advantage of the miles boost 30% bonus offer by purchasing them even before I take the flight? I was not aware you could do that if you can.

Re: Can you Miles Boost before taking a flight?

PostPosted: 12 Feb 2016, 08:56
by Luke12
Yes you can.

Login to your booking online, scroll down to the 'treats' section.

Re: Can you Miles Boost before taking a flight?

PostPosted: 12 Feb 2016, 09:24
by David
Only thing to remember is the miles don't post until you've taken the 1st leg of each "boosted" flight.

(mines actually posted a day before but don't think they are meant to)

David

Re: Can you Miles Boost before taking a flight?

PostPosted: 12 Feb 2016, 10:12
by Snora
Yes I agree with the others, you can do it before . I did it only a few months ago and interestingly the Bonus 30% miles were added immediately at the payment stage but the Boosted miles were added 3 days after my first leg of flights.

Re: Can you Miles Boost before taking a flight?

PostPosted: 12 Feb 2016, 12:06
by ScoobySu
Hi

Yes - I've boosted my May G flights now and did the same last year!

Re: Can you Miles Boost before taking a flight?

PostPosted: 12 Feb 2016, 21:20
by Maximus
Thanka all, I shall look into this then.

Re: Can you Miles Boost before taking a flight?

PostPosted: 14 Feb 2016, 22:21
by Maximus
I have another question if I may?

If my return flights gain me 5000 base miles each way (for example) I can miles boost the base miles (2 x 5000) to get 10,000 miles.

Or I can double the base miles for double the price to get 20,000 miles.

And at as there is a miles boost bonus currently available I will get an extra 30%.

My question is, do I still get the original 10,000 miles as well? i.e. 10,000 base miles + 20,000 double boost + 6,000 (30%) bonus miles = 36,000 miles?

Just want to check before I buy.

Re: Can you Miles Boost before taking a flight?

PostPosted: 14 Feb 2016, 22:48
by stuart_f
Yes you do. The 10,000 base points that you earn are are unaffected by the boost in any way.

As a slight variation to this, you can actually boost a reward flight that would normally gain 0 miles as a result of the booking class. In your example if you had double boosted this same trip booked as a reward flight you'd get 26,000 miles in total - The double boost (20,000) + 30% (6,000) + No base miles at all = 26,000.

Re: Can you Miles Boost before taking a flight?

PostPosted: 14 Feb 2016, 23:04
by Maximus
Thats fantastic. I think I will go for it for a 2017 trip. I am all for planning ahead :-)

Re: Can you Miles Boost before taking a flight?

PostPosted: 15 Feb 2016, 08:51
by dickydotcom
Yesterday I double boosted Mrs D's miles for our upcoming trip.
So thanks for the post I would have missed the opportunity otherwise.
My own miles balance is quite healthy so I didn't bother with mine.
Dick D