Jennie
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From now until November 30, 2008 you can book tickets on most airlines at the Amex travel division:
www.membershiprewards.com/pwpoffer
The tickets could be for flights in 2009. They just have to be booked on-line by November 30th.
You will use 30% less of your Membership Rewards Points by doing it here. The example they give is that if a ticket costs $300. you can pay for it using 21,000 Points instead of the usual 30,000. There's a 5000 point minimum. I don't see any maximum mentioned.
If you do not have enough points to pay for the entire ticket, the balance can be charged to your Amex card dollar for dollar. Buried in the fine print is that a $7.00 service charge per round trip ticket is included in the total fare shown. Oh, and you can book one way or multi segment tickets too and still receive the 30% point discount. And you book the ticket in anyone's name even if they are not a cardholder or family member.
I booked several tickets today using this deal for our Florida vacation in February. The prices shown at the Amex web site were the same as I had found on other web sites (Travelocity, Expedia, and the airlines' own web sites). Other than the $7.00 service charge per ticket, the Amex prices were the same.
The fine print states that the offer is non-transferrable and valid only for the addressee (person receiving the post card) . I almost threw it out thinking it was a piece of junk mail.
I guess there's no harm in trying to book something if you don't think you received the offer. If it doesn't go through on the web site, I would call and complain about why others received this offer and you did not.
www.membershiprewards.com/pwpoffer
The tickets could be for flights in 2009. They just have to be booked on-line by November 30th.
You will use 30% less of your Membership Rewards Points by doing it here. The example they give is that if a ticket costs $300. you can pay for it using 21,000 Points instead of the usual 30,000. There's a 5000 point minimum. I don't see any maximum mentioned.
If you do not have enough points to pay for the entire ticket, the balance can be charged to your Amex card dollar for dollar. Buried in the fine print is that a $7.00 service charge per round trip ticket is included in the total fare shown. Oh, and you can book one way or multi segment tickets too and still receive the 30% point discount. And you book the ticket in anyone's name even if they are not a cardholder or family member.
I booked several tickets today using this deal for our Florida vacation in February. The prices shown at the Amex web site were the same as I had found on other web sites (Travelocity, Expedia, and the airlines' own web sites). Other than the $7.00 service charge per ticket, the Amex prices were the same.
The fine print states that the offer is non-transferrable and valid only for the addressee (person receiving the post card) . I almost threw it out thinking it was a piece of junk mail.
I guess there's no harm in trying to book something if you don't think you received the offer. If it doesn't go through on the web site, I would call and complain about why others received this offer and you did not.