yeah, but China Airlines aren’t Chinese, they’re Taiwanese, so no point stereotyping Chinese carriers.

come to think of it, the Swiss Coop have a similar deal, although it’s much more expensive to get miles for them

7500 Points (7500 Swiss Franks worth of groceries… or 4 times what I payed to go to Canada (including accomodation) for ten days, three years ago ) can be traded in for 3’750 Swiss Travel Club miles (or 10’000 points for 5’000 Miles).

It only costs 20’000 Travel Club miles to get a free return flight in Europe on Swiss Economy, so it’s an absolute snip…

yeah, I get confused…

(without wanting to turn this thread into a shopping thread… :rolleyes: )

Tesco Clubcard 1 point per £1
Nectar 2 points per £1
Co-op Dividend 4 points per £1
Boots Advantage 1 point per 25p.

That sounds about right, I redeemed 1000 Sainsbury’s Reward Card points for 800 BA Miles last year, right before they stopped doing BA.
So it’d be about the same, 250 Tesco Clubcard points per 400 Miles.

Actually, does anyone know if Nectar still have the Diamond Club redemption option, or did they stop it when they merged the Sainbury’s/BP/Debenhams/someone else cards? :confused:

they merged with a US defense company, didn’t they?

I can’t be bothered with package tours, either, only time I’ve been on (what could be considered) one was my rugby tour to Canada three years ago with RFC Basel.

1’800 Swiss (about £720, US$1010) bought us return flights with AF in Economy ZRH-CDG-YYZ, a hired coach for the ten days we were in Canada, seven nights at the Holiday Inn, Oakville, ON, three nights at the Hotel Maritime, Montréal, PQ, full touring kit (2 Polo shirts with badge, playing jersey, shorts, socks and tour embroidered kitbag), plus return train tickets from Basel to Zurich Airport (about 75 minutes in the train), and match fees for three games.

While food/drink wasn’t included (although I’m pretty sure the Bar bill came to more than the food bill… :rolleyes:), we used the coach for sightseeing trips around Toronto and Montréal, the trip from Toronto to Montréal, as well as to visit Niagara Falls.

We also managed (somehow) to get free group tickets to go up the CN Tower (ok, as far as the first viewing platform but the glass floor was enough for me), I reckon overall that probably does represent good value, although it wasn’t a package tour as such, just stuff a Canadian on the team organised through various contacts with clubs at home, and through his office’s travel department.

‘Time is everything’ was teh Swissair slogan, which would also tie in with their two hubs… Zurich and Geneva.

Which league with only one competitor was decided before the final day of the season, the oh-so-exciting, all singing, all dancing, Premierboat (or ship, whatever you want to call it) or the oh-so-boring, only one team in it, Premier League?

😛 😛