El Al Matmid Discounted Coach Awards
El Al has a pretty decent sale for coach awards across the globe, including travel between Tel Aviv and North America, South Africa, Europe, or the Far East.
Awards are discounted further for “Executives” and it’s pretty easy to become an executive. A transfer of just 5,000 points from the US AMEX Membership Rewards program to El Al’s Matmid program will earn you executive status for a year.
Note that transferred points expire after 36 months and can’t be extended with activity.
With this sale, executives will pay just 400 points one-way or 800 points for round-trip travel between JFK, Newark, or Toronto and Tel Aviv. That’s equal to 40,000 AMEX points round-trip.
Tickets between Los Angeles and Tel Aviv for executives will be 500 points one-way or 1,000 points for round-trip travel. That’s equal to 50,000 AMEX points round-trip.
Fuel surcharges and taxes add $355 round-trip from the US to Tel Aviv, but they add only $183 USD ($228 CAD) to round-trip tickets from Toronto to Tel Aviv.
-Valid for awards booked by March 19.
-Tickets between the US and Tel Aviv are valid for departures between April 19-May 31. The return officially needs to be completed by July 18, but from searching it appears that the return can actually be done at any time at the discounted rate.
-Tickets between Toronto and Tel Aviv (and tickets between Tel Aviv and the rest of the world) are valid for departures between April 19-June 30. The return date also appears to be discounted for travel at any time.
American Express is a DansDeals.com advertiser.
-American Express Membership Rewards points can be earned from consumer cards like The Amex EveryDay Credit Card , The Amex EveryDay Preferred Credit Card, the Amex Premier Rewards Gold Card and The Amex Platinum Card.
Business cards include The Enhanced Business Gold Rewards Card and The Business Platinum Card.
Points transfer instantly from AMEX to El Al.
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How much are the surcharges and fees each way from NYC?
Read the post?
Thanks, Dan!
Can I buy tickets for my parents using my Matmid account points, if I don’t fly with them?
do you have to transfer 5k mr to become executive club and then transfer 40k mr.or can you transfer 40k mr and that makes the ah matmid exec club
Dan what will I get extra if I transfer the 5 k I have a aa buissness class ticket in the summer
Is it worth it
@Andre: I’m not Dan, but yes.
@Aa gold: interesting… I didn’t know aa flies to Israel!
@eli Aa miles on el al flight
Can you fly in June from Tel Aviv to NY One way for 20,000 MR under this promo or does this promo expire on May 31?
The extended return date on a RT only works if you start your outbound travel by May 31?
are the fuel surcharges for one way $175
Hey! Happy Purim! Anyone know if these tickets are upgradable if I use cash and miles? And if so how would i go about that.
@Eli,
It’s USlessAirways.
Is it only amex points transferable or other airlines like avios transferable.
@Dan you wrote how much the fees are RT, I’m asking for the breakdown of fees NYC-TLV vs. TLV-NYC.
does this works as a round trip from Tel Aviv to New York and Back or just from NYC to TLV
awaiting urgent reply
@c read the post?
I just transferred 75000 amex points to elal and my status has not been upgraded to executive member. Does anyone know how long it takes for elal to upgrade my status to executive so that I can take advantage of the lower points cost?
Thanks
Moshe
can i still transfer to get executive status ?
if I have 222k HAS advantage usbank pts.if I transfer to matmid points (5,500) do I get executive status?
also with executive status, are the tickets that I purchase for my family also at the discounted rate?
i.e how many tickets can I get from NY to TLV for my 5,500 matmid points (222k usbank HAS card pts)
thx!
i.e if I transfer my 222k usbank HAS card points to the matmid program – does that give me executive membership, and can buy 6 roundtrip tickets from ny to Israel?