American Express and Avios have been running frequent transfer bonuses around the globe. The last one they ran for India was in October 2012, with a similar 30% bonus. However, right after that there was a Membership Rewards devaluation, whereby, MR made all airline transfers, which were earlier 1.6 MR=1 mile/point, to 2 MR = 1Mile/Point except Jet Airways.

Anyhow, Amex and Avios are now running a 30% transfer bonus, whereby for every transfer of 2000 Amex MR to your Avios account, you will get 1300 Avios instead of the usual 1000. This brings your cost down to 1.54 MR per Avios. This promotion runs till July 15, 2013. Transfer is usually completed within 24 hours. The minimum transfer is for 1200 MR, and would cost Rs. 250 to implement.

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Do remember, Avios redemptions from India on British Airways flights usually attract hefty fuel surcharges, however, you could use it for redemptions on other oneworld airlines as well.

If you’re some Avios short for your next redemption, I’d advise you use this promotion to top-up. Going by the way things are working here, I wouldn’t be surprised if a similar promotion comes by with PremierMiles soon.

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Jet Airways has sent out emails to several members of the Jet Privilege program, where they are crediting 20% of the flown miles for the last 20 flights flown with Jet Airways/Jet Konnect between the period 05 May 1993 to 05 May 2013. The mileage credit is exclusive of cabin bonuses, tier bonuses or any other bonus, and has already been credited to some accounts, while some others have received the emails but not the bonus credited into their account. In case of my own family, I’ve received the credit into my account, while my mom has received the email but not the credit, and my brother and my dad have not even heard from Jet Airways. I intend to wait up a few days to see how this plays out, because Jet Airway’s does take a while implementing promotions across the board.

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The interesting bit at the end is a clue of things to come:

Do look forward to many more such surprises as we continue with our celebrations through the year.

Enjoy the bonuses, and if they did not come your way, do write to jetprivilege@jetairways.comto make a formal request.

Tell me how many miles did you get in the comments section.

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Jet Airways sent out a survey few days ago, in tie-up with a hotel chain is circulating a survey for some feedback. The survey takes about 10 minutes to fill, and Jet Airways is offering you 1,000 JP Miles for this effort. Here is the email, and you can follow the link:

Dear _____ ,

We understand that your time is important, but we would be delighted to credit your account with 1,000 JPMiles for a few minutes of your time.

We, in association with one of our partners, are conducting a survey on ‘Luxury Hotel Experiences in India’. We would sincerely appreciate, if you could tell us what criteria you use to choose your favourite hotels during your business and holiday travel in India.

Do take a few minutes out of your schedule to help your preferred hotels create a more memorable and exclusive experience for you.
CLICK HERE to earn 1,000 JPMiles and complete the easy to fill in online survey form!

http://www7.intellisurvey.com/run/rni10161453cj
Once again, thank you for your time.

Warm regards,

Head – JetPrivilege

All the best. The miles usually should post about a week later.

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Like I wrote earlier in November, Citibank is offering a 30% bonus on PremierMiles transfer to British Airways Avios, and a 20% bonus on Etihad Guest transfers, both valid for transfers initiated till December 31, 2012. This is a quick reminder that if you wanted to make the transfer, right now is a good time [...]

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Jet Airways ; operates on domestic as well as international routes to the Middle-East, South-East Asia, Europe and North America from India. JetPrivilege is its frequent flyer program, which used to offer some of the best frequent flyer benefits in India. If you are not already on Jet Airway’s JetPrivilege frequent flyer program, and are [...]

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Beginning of the month I had alerted all of you regular readers about the promotions going on with American Express, where there is an offer to transfer Membership Rewards (their reward currency) for cards issued in India. There are two promotions: Transfer your Amex Membership Rewards to British Airways Avios, and you could earn a [...]

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I don’t know if Citi is playing catch up with the American Express offer for 30% bonus miles on Avios transfers / Etihad Guest Miles or it is their own initiative, but they just got some new brownie points in my book. I’d been secretly wondering if there were ever going to be bonus offers [...]

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I’ve said more than enough about my love for the Citibank PremierMiles credit card. You can read the review here. Back in May I had posted about a lovely promotion these bankers came up with to promote their credit card product. Since they already offered 10 PremierMiles per Rs. 100 on air travel, they added [...]

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A short while back I wrote about the excellent 30% bonus that American Express was offering for conversions from India-based cards’ Membership Rewards to Avios, which can be used on British Airways and Iberia. I also spotted today on the American Express Membership Rewards portal, that there is a promotion on for Etihad Guest Miles [...]

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I was just waiting for this to happen in India. American Express has been offering a transfer bonus on British Airways currency Avios for a while now, and different time periods for different countries. I was hoping India was on the map as well, and I just heard that was indeed the case. For a [...]

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For those of you who had transferred your credit card points to JetPrivilege by 31st May 2012 under the Mega Miles bonus offer, the 25% bonuses have credited on 4th June 2012. While most of my bonuses have posted, a couple of them have not. I would advise all of you to log into your [...]

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