Jul 20, 2015, 2:39 am
Last edit by: headingwest
Please report all A3 mileage runs in this thread. These should be unusually good fares, not regularly available ones. If listing another airline other than A3/OA, please detail.
Categories are broken down by country of initial departure.
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Format as:
Date added - Departing airport - Intermediate Airport(s) - (Re)-arrival airport - Fare bucket - dates - miles earned - cost - cost per mile in local currency (or Euros) - (Airline)
e.g.
July 2015 - LHR-ATH-BRU-ATH-LHR - P - 12-19 Oct 2015 - 4226m - £108 - 2.56p/mile
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May 2016 - ARN-CPH-IAD-CPH-ARN - A (Premium Y) - 18969m - 27-31 Oct 2016 - 690 Euros - 3.7cpm - SK (Other starting points, e.g OSL, SVG very similar)
Categories are broken down by country of initial departure.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Format as:
Date added - Departing airport - Intermediate Airport(s) - (Re)-arrival airport - Fare bucket - dates - miles earned - cost - cost per mile in local currency (or Euros) - (Airline)
e.g.
July 2015 - LHR-ATH-BRU-ATH-LHR - P - 12-19 Oct 2015 - 4226m - £108 - 2.56p/mile
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May 2016 - ARN-CPH-IAD-CPH-ARN - A (Premium Y) - 18969m - 27-31 Oct 2016 - 690 Euros - 3.7cpm - SK (Other starting points, e.g OSL, SVG very similar)
Aegean Mileage Runs & Deals
May 3, 2016, 5:45 pm
#136
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: Netherlands
Programs: A3*G
Posts: 132
SAS has a new auction-style upgrade system to replace OptionTown. Even though they say the extra miles can only be earned on EuroBonus accounts, I was able to twice upgrade my SAS Go intercontinental flights to SAS Plus for only 110 EUR each (the minimum bid), which credited 200%, for a total of over 8k miles per segment.
May 3, 2016, 11:46 pm
#137
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: PAS, Paros Greece
Programs: A3 *G
Posts: 1,372
SAS has a new auction-style upgrade system to replace OptionTown. Even though they say the extra miles can only be earned on EuroBonus accounts, I was able to twice upgrade my SAS Go intercontinental flights to SAS Plus for only 110 EUR each (the minimum bid), which credited 200%, for a total of over 8k miles per segment.
Points earned on an upgrade are EuroBonus points. When you are upgraded, you
cannot earn points from any other frequent flyer programs, even if another loyalty
program membership number is assigned to your original reservation.
cannot earn points from any other frequent flyer programs, even if another loyalty
program membership number is assigned to your original reservation.
It also says:
The new ticket class of the upgrade applies as the basis for earning points.
Also, for info, the bid range for my upcoming ATH-ARN flight is 55 to 110 Euro. 55 Euro was previously what Optiontown were asking.
Last edited by Knobbgb; May 3, 2016 at 11:55 pm
May 4, 2016, 12:13 am
#138
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: PAS, Paros Greece
Programs: A3 *G
Posts: 1,372
Many people probably already know this - so it's probably just me being stupid, but I just realised that Ethiopian fly DUB-LAX with local traffic rights, so that adds them to SAS as the only other carrier across the Atlantic with at least 100% earning on ALL fares. They have some reasonable prices too - 370 Euro one-way or 520 Euro return in October and around 679 Euro rt in July. The only downside is an 05:55 departure from DUB but at least the early LAX arrival opens up loads of connection opportunities and a chance of an early night!
May 7, 2016, 4:20 am
#139
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 5,900
Many people probably already know this - so it's probably just me being stupid, but I just realised that Ethiopian fly DUB-LAX with local traffic rights, so that adds them to SAS as the only other carrier across the Atlantic with at least 100% earning on ALL fares. They have some reasonable prices too - 370 Euro one-way or 520 Euro return in October and around 679 Euro rt in July. The only downside is an 05:55 departure from DUB but at least the early LAX arrival opens up loads of connection opportunities and a chance of an early night!
May 8, 2016, 8:35 am
#140
Join Date: Apr 2015
Location: C2, BTS, VIE
Programs: A3 *G, AA Exec Plat Pro, Accor Silver, IHG Plat, HH Diamond, PP
Posts: 321
STR-SKG-CDG for 22 euros, June 2nd
https://www.kayak.de/flights/STR-CDG/2016-06-02
https://www.kayak.de/flights/STR-CDG/2016-06-02
May 24, 2016, 6:22 am
#141
Community Director
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Norwich, UK
Programs: A3*G, BA Gold, BD Gold (in memoriam), IHG Diamond Ambassador
Posts: 8,477
I have removed all expired deals from the wiki, which means it's now looking just a little bare!
I would suggest, taking account of the A3 earnings chart, that we now expand this to other *A airlines.
In that spirit, our old earnings favourite SK is currently selling Premium Y booking into A class (at 200% earning) from a number of Scandinavian starting points via CPH to IAD for selected dates in October (Thursday depart, Monday return seems to work well) for 690 Euros netting 18696 miles @ 3.6cpm (UK POS). Rather useful for a late qualification ...
/mod
I would suggest, taking account of the A3 earnings chart, that we now expand this to other *A airlines.
In that spirit, our old earnings favourite SK is currently selling Premium Y booking into A class (at 200% earning) from a number of Scandinavian starting points via CPH to IAD for selected dates in October (Thursday depart, Monday return seems to work well) for 690 Euros netting 18696 miles @ 3.6cpm (UK POS). Rather useful for a late qualification ...
/mod
May 24, 2016, 11:35 am
#143
Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: YYZ, YUL, PEK
Posts: 429
ET only flies to YYZ in Canada (non-stop on the outbound, stop in DUB on the inbound), but sadly does not have DUB-YYZ traffic rights.
May 24, 2016, 11:34 pm
#144
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: YXY
Posts: 3,506
In that spirit, our old earnings favourite SK is currently selling Premium Y booking into A class (at 200% earning) from a number of Scandinavian starting points via CPH to IAD for selected dates in October (Thursday depart, Monday return seems to work well) for 690 Euros netting 18696 miles @ 3.6cpm (UK POS). Rather useful for a late qualification ...
May 26, 2016, 1:18 am
#145
Join Date: May 2016
Location: Berks
Programs: BA, A3, Hilton, IHG
Posts: 215
I've booked:
Friday 16/09 LGW-HER-CDG £51
Saturday 17/09 BHX-ATH-AMS £50
Using some avios to get back from Paris / Amsterdam
Will earn just over 4500 miles in P class and probably be quite tiring given two consecutive night flights.
The weekend before I'm doing LUX-ATH-OSL for £33 overnighting in Athens, almost considered BOD-ATH-OSL but it was too tricky to get to BOD in time.
Friday 16/09 LGW-HER-CDG £51
Saturday 17/09 BHX-ATH-AMS £50
Using some avios to get back from Paris / Amsterdam
Will earn just over 4500 miles in P class and probably be quite tiring given two consecutive night flights.
The weekend before I'm doing LUX-ATH-OSL for £33 overnighting in Athens, almost considered BOD-ATH-OSL but it was too tricky to get to BOD in time.
May 27, 2016, 6:07 pm
#146
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Lincoln, UK
Programs: A3G, BA Silver, LH FT
Posts: 296
I've booked:
Friday 16/09 LGW-HER-CDG £51
Saturday 17/09 BHX-ATH-AMS £50
Using some avios to get back from Paris / Amsterdam
Will earn just over 4500 miles in P class and probably be quite tiring given two consecutive night flights.
The weekend before I'm doing LUX-ATH-OSL for £33 overnighting in Athens, almost considered BOD-ATH-OSL but it was too tricky to get to BOD in time.
Friday 16/09 LGW-HER-CDG £51
Saturday 17/09 BHX-ATH-AMS £50
Using some avios to get back from Paris / Amsterdam
Will earn just over 4500 miles in P class and probably be quite tiring given two consecutive night flights.
The weekend before I'm doing LUX-ATH-OSL for £33 overnighting in Athens, almost considered BOD-ATH-OSL but it was too tricky to get to BOD in time.
May 28, 2016, 12:22 pm
#147
Join Date: May 2016
Location: Berks
Programs: BA, A3, Hilton, IHG
Posts: 215
Cheers! It will make a change from flying LHR-LCA which I've been doing a few times a month since February.
May 31, 2016, 11:15 am
#149
Community Director
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Norwich, UK
Programs: A3*G, BA Gold, BD Gold (in memoriam), IHG Diamond Ambassador
Posts: 8,477
I would gently remind members that any posts from the Moderator team with /mod attached are Mod actions and FT rules provide that they are not open for public discussion. Thank you for your co-operation in the future.
However, by way of explanation, almost all the posts removed were many, many months old (some well over a year) and it was extremely difficult to pick out what were current deals. Please don't forget that we are looking for fares that may well not repeat - this is not really the place for A3's regular sale fares which are rarely enormous bargains anyway!
With the expansion to include all *A airlines this is only likely to get worse.
In an ideal world, we would maintain a history somewhere in the thread in a concise format. The volunteer mod team only has a limited bandwidth and we simply do not have the time to do this on top of all the normal mod duties - which is one of the reasons the wiki got neglected and in a state of disrepair in the first place. It is now at least in a state where a fresh start can be made.
Hence ...
FT is a community, and it is hoped that a member of that community might take on 'ownership' of the thread wiki maintenance if they felt able to make improvements. Please PM the mod team if you want to do this.
/mod
However, by way of explanation, almost all the posts removed were many, many months old (some well over a year) and it was extremely difficult to pick out what were current deals. Please don't forget that we are looking for fares that may well not repeat - this is not really the place for A3's regular sale fares which are rarely enormous bargains anyway!
With the expansion to include all *A airlines this is only likely to get worse.
In an ideal world, we would maintain a history somewhere in the thread in a concise format. The volunteer mod team only has a limited bandwidth and we simply do not have the time to do this on top of all the normal mod duties - which is one of the reasons the wiki got neglected and in a state of disrepair in the first place. It is now at least in a state where a fresh start can be made.
Hence ...
FT is a community, and it is hoped that a member of that community might take on 'ownership' of the thread wiki maintenance if they felt able to make improvements. Please PM the mod team if you want to do this.
/mod
May 31, 2016, 5:32 pm
#150
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: YXY
Posts: 3,506
So how can we have the discussion if we should follow the established model of annual threads (like the big threads in the Mileage Run Deals forum) or if we prefer moderators to periodically check deals for availability and eventually delete postings?