Redeeming Our Pooled Mileage

For the past few years, we've been choosing Japan Airlines (JAL) over any other airlines for our trips to Japan. The promotional airfares from JAL are always more enticing and we do like the service we get on JAL flights. JAL is also quite generous with their mileage accumulation. No mileage for you on SQ with SQ's promotional airfares, you know.

I've written about the JAL Mileage Bank and JAL Family Club (JALFC) membership and you can check it here.

Although we need to pay a yearly renewal fee of 3,150yen for the JALFC, it is worth it. Accumulating mileage with JAL is easy. Apart from flying with JAL, there are other options to accumulate mileage as mentioned in JAL's website.

With JALFC membership comes the advantage of being able to pool our mileage with family members, as per the diagram below:

I just renewed my membership and a couple of weeks ago, I redeemed the miles we've accrued from our flights the previous year. 10,000 miles is worth 15,000yen in JAL coupon which is around RM550.00 at the current exchange rate. Sweet.

It took JAL only a week to process my request and have the coupons delivered to me!

We will either use coupon to pay for one of our hotel stay or dining at a JAL Hotel or use it for a spot of inflight shopping.