Spicejet, one of the first low-cost airlines in India, is celebrating its 7th birthday on 23rd May 2012, and is giving out ‘cheap’ tickets on the occasion to those who want to buy.

Here are the details. Spicejet is offering tickets to people on 23rd May 2012 for its 35 destinations serviced within India, for a base fare (plus fuel surcharge) of INR 777 only. Airport charges and taxes will be extra.

The offer is valid for all tickets booked on May 23rd 2012 between 07:00 am till 08:17 am IST on all direct and via domestic flights, for travel till October 27, 2012. To book these tickets, you need to use the SpiceJet website www.spicejet.com, Spicejet airport counters or Spicejet phone numbers 9871803333 or 18001803333.

After some very interesting sales they’ve conducted in the recent past, this one looks one more interesting sale to have! Bank on it while you can.

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Jet Airways has come out with a new promotion for flyers wanting to purchase Jet Privilege miles on their program. Here is the offer they make:

• 500 JPMiles to 2000 JPMiles -> 10% more JPMiles
• 2001 JPMiles to 4000 JPMiles -> 20% more JPMiles
• 4001 JPMiles to 6000 JPMiles -> 30% more JPMiles
• above 6000 JPMiles -> 40% more JPMiles

JP Miles are usually priced at INR 1.25 per JP Mile (about 2.3 cents). Using this promotion at the highest end of purchasing more than 6,000 JP Miles per transaction, the cost per JPMile becomes INR 0.90 per JP Mile (about 1.6 cents) accounting for the 40% bonus. The offer is valid till 31st August 2012.

I see it as an opportunity to take up some miles to top-up your account if you need them, otherwise you can just pass! Here is why.

If you are a flyer primarily inside India, then you can combine this promotion with the 20% off domestic redemptionsas well. As per my calculations, however, this will not work out cheaper on any segments if you decide to go for redemption after buying miles, and will cost you a tier-point as well.

If you are looking forward to flying internationally, then you will anyways have a hard time finding seats on the Jet Airways network, more so in the premium cabin. However, there is an extensive network of 24 airline partners and you can use your miles for redemption on these partner airlines. Partners include Air France, ANA, AA, CX, QF, UA and TK. Some very reasonable award tickets can be had on this extended network, sometimes with reasonable surcharges.

Also, if you need the miles, don’t forget, you get 25% bonus on credit card conversions till 31st May 2012.

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This is downright the season of sales and promotions and one of those times which will really keep the frequent traveller very busy. After the Club Carlson giveaway which should debut very soon, it also seems that the Le’Club Accor, the renamed loyalty program of the Accor Hotels chain is also getting ready to announce a new promotion. Here is a little announcement that turned up on their Facebook page a short while back:

Like Gary at View From The Wing points out, it is pretty easy to get Platinum Status with this one, so get ready with the Platinum Status just incase you need to make a stay with them for getting some miles and bonus points!

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