First time buying something with points. I have 400K chase points and want to buy at least 2 one way business class tickets to new Zealand in January. Can anyone help guide me? Is it possible?

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Okay ..I found your best option...redeem 370,000 miles for Avios (British Airways). This will give you 480,000 Avios through the 30% bonus promotion which runs for about another 1.5 weeks. Transfer these to Qatar Avios. You can book each direction for 240,000 Avios in QSuites. Your total cost will be 480.000 Avios + taxes/fees (about $400 total roundtrip).

You can also do this 1 way for half the miles and use the other options I mentioned above, if you wish.

I think this is a great deal for a $11k ticket. You're getting 3 cents in value per Chase point.

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RSM so we looked into it and the Qatar suites have a 36 hour trip with a 3 hour stop over. I've heard with some airlines you can book a second leg of the trip for more of a stop over for the same amount of points. So 4 hours in Qatar and the long way to New Zealand doesn't seem worth it. But if we have a stop over in Europe for a day then I think this is worth it. What do you think?

You can check online pretty easily through the chase portal.

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Heard chase is inflated and not the best deal?

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What is your originating city?

That's a long flight. Business class tickets are going for around 10k roundtrip. You might be lucky to get roundtrip in premium economy ($4500 cash price) for 320k miles (air Canada Aeroplan)...if you have status, you can use points to upgrade to business.

Chase / Amex occasionally have promos where your points will get you 15 to 30% bonus miles on Aereoplan so that could drop your total to around 250k points.

Actually...you can book 1 direction in business class (United) for 250k miles (departure). And the other direction (return) in premium economy 65k miles (Aeroplan).

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If you redeem for miles, you can fly in economy for 62,000 chase points roundtrip.

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