Last year, when American Express and Jet Airways launched their co-branded Jet-Airways American Express Credit Card, they offered a special sign-up bonus of 10,000 JPMiles over and above the welcome gift of 20,000 JPMiles which is the standard on-going offer. However, the sign-up bonus was only available to those who paid the INR 10,000 + taxes as first year fees, hence, I chose to pay the fee in spite of being a JetPrivilege Platinum member and eligible for the credit card free of cost. I was getting miles at INR 0.33 per JPmile, and it was hard to beat that value. On my last Jet Airways flight earlier this week, I saw flyers around the cabin talking about the special…
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Etihad acquires 24% in Jet Airways and majority stake in JetPrivilege
Jet Airways has completed the induction of Etihad Airways as a 24% shareholder in the airline, following the initial announcement of this deal in April 2013. Under the deal, Jet Airways issued new shares to Etihad Airways, and the stake of the founder/promoter of the airline, Naresh Goyal, is now down to 51%. James Hogan, who is the CEO of Etihad Airways, and James Rigney, who is the CFO, have also come on the Board of Directors of Jet Airways. In a related move, JetPrivilege, the loyalty program of Jet Airways, which was spun off into a separate company last year, also got sold with 50.1% stake of the JP program now with Etihad. Like I have stated earlier, there…
2,500 JPMiles for enrolment with JetPrivilege
Jet Airways is offering all new members who sign up using their recent link, a sign-up bonus of 2,500 JetPrivilege miles. JetPrivilege does bring up this promotion from time to time. Points usually post instantaneously or within a few hours. While the duration of the promotion is unspecified, only new members should enrol using this link, because existing accounts won’t get any bonus miles to enrol again, and opening a new account is useless for you since you’re allowed only one JP account under the terms of the program. Mileage credits are usually instantaneous, or within a few hours. So, if you intend to be crediting miles to JetPrivilege for flights on Jet Airways or other partner carriers, this may…
An attempt with trying to book 0 JPmiles tickets
A couple of days back, I was in ticket booking mode, with a mix of work and play tickets being booked up. Now, while I usually book up tickets on revenue rates only, to make sure I am closer to requalification for the year, this one time I wanted to look up some reward tickets as well. And to my surprise, this is what turned up: Not bad at all, I thought. It said 0 JP Miles all over. I was already making a mental map of the places I could be visiting with this! So I tried a few random segments and it was all turning up like this, and I was convinced there was a system glitch somewhere.…
Earn JPMiles to book hotels with PointsHound + special promotion
PointsHound is a 11 month old website now, which offers mileage currency to book hotel rooms via their website. There is a tier system in place, where if you book 1-5 nights, you get a certain no. of miles, for being a Level 1 member. Once you move up to Level 2, you get the ability to earn a higher no. of miles per night, and if you go right up to level 3 (20+ nights booked), you get into the highest tier where you get the most number of miles per night. Most of the times, you’d have to give up the ability to earn status/elite benefits in your hotel program when booking via a 3rd Party. However, PointsHound…
Reminder: 1 week to get 20% bonus JPMiles on converting Credit Card points
Like I’ve written in the past, Jet Airways has been offering a promotion, where they top up your credit card points converted to JP Miles. There is a 20% bonus added by Jet Airways for converting your credit card points from the following banks: American Express Axis Bank Citibank HDFC Bank HSBC IndusInd Bank Kotak Credit Cards Payback Punjab National Bank SBI Card Standard Chartered Bank Tata Cards RBS The promotion is valid for conversions which credit to your JetPrivilege account by the 30th of September 2013. So, in case you want to convert some credit card points to JP Miles, here is your chance, and act now. All the details required are in these posts here and here. Related…
250-10,000 JP Miles for a financial planning session
Between 1 September 2013 to 31 October 2013, JetPrivilege is offering 250 JP miles for a 15 minute financial planning session with Aegon Religare Life Insurance. Also, 1 lucky winner every month gets to win 10,000 JP miles as well. Now, there is no obligation to buy insurance, but I’m sure you’d be getting followed up for one sooner than later. If you think this is worth the chance to win 10,000 JP Miles, feel free to participate by leaving your details here. You can schedule multiple meetings,but you’re only getting the 250 JP Miles only once. This tie-up is valid for the following cities: Mumbai Delhi Bangalore Hyderabad Chennai Kolkata Ahmedabad Lucknow Chandigarh Pune Related Posts: JP Miles to…
JP Miles to test drive & buy an SUV
JetPrivilege is offering miles to test drive and/or buy the Rexton, a Sports Utility Vehicle from Korean manufacturer SsangYong and marketed in India by Mahindra. The promotion states that everyone who test drives the car gets 350 JP Miles for the effort, and those who buy the car also get 7,500 JP Miles over & above. The promotion is valid till December 31, 2013. This is where partnerships start getting interesting in the Indian airline mileage space. If you’d want to register for this test drive, follow this link here. Live From A Lounge is present on Facebook, Twitter & available via email, RSS.
How long does it take for a flight to post to JetPrivilege, realistically?
At the outset, this is a rant. So those of you who don’t like ‘em, should quit now. Otherwise, read on. My last trip out of town was to Goa, when I popped on to a Jet Airways plane both ways to go to Goa and come back to Mumbai. Now, I am usually very particular about monitoring my 9W flight credits, because they don’t credit to JetPrivilege on time about 20-25% of the times. There is functionality on the website as well, to claim missing miles, which asks you to load up a lot of details and you’re through. It clearly also states, Incase the member has availed of an upgrade to Première or First Class against vouchers, JPMiles…
JetPrivilege extends 20% off redemptions for domestic & 25% off for international travel
JetPrivilege has been running a great promotion since March 2012, where they offer a 20% discount on the published requirement of JPMiles on any domestic sector in the the business or economy section of the plane, if you book your award ticket using their website JetAirways.com. This promotion is not available for you to call and book, or book via a ticketing centre. The promotion is usually run for a period of 6 months or so, and has been extended on a rolling basis. The last announcement for the promotion put it out till September 30, 2013 for booking and travel. Now, Jet Airways has updated their website to indicate that the promotion date has been extended till March 2014.…
Why does Jet Airways staff not process upgrades?
I usually do not prefer using my upgrade certificates from Jet Airways on domestic flights, however, sometimes I do like to take it easy and get myself on the list for a two hour long flight as well. Last weekend, me and my brother were flying on them to Delhi to meet the family. And I’d called in a few days in advance to put the both of us on the upgrade list. Like is the usual, I was told, that there were no upgrade seats available at the moment, and we would be put on the upgrade waitlist for this flight. The upgrade waitlist on 9W is never to be seen by passengers, unlike the American legacy airlines who…
