Mileage accrual when booking through a consolidator (Opodo, Tripsta, etc.)
Apr 4, 2017, 7:57 am
#1
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Mileage accrual when booking through a consolidator (Opodo, Tripsta, etc.)
Hi All
As per the title, I'm curious to understand whether or not flights bought through some of the more obscure 3rd party consolidators such as Opodo, Tripsta, Gotogate, etc. would qualify for mileage accrual on Aegean flights?
I seldom use these consolidators but flights are somehow 30% cheaper on them than directly with Aegean, and I'm not planning on checking any luggage in anyway (but definitely want to accrue miles).
Any thoughts / recommendations / warnings to steer clear from them?
Thanks.
K
As per the title, I'm curious to understand whether or not flights bought through some of the more obscure 3rd party consolidators such as Opodo, Tripsta, Gotogate, etc. would qualify for mileage accrual on Aegean flights?
I seldom use these consolidators but flights are somehow 30% cheaper on them than directly with Aegean, and I'm not planning on checking any luggage in anyway (but definitely want to accrue miles).
Any thoughts / recommendations / warnings to steer clear from them?
Thanks.
K
Apr 4, 2017, 11:08 am
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Can't say much about Tripsta and Gotogate, but I don't understand why you call Opodo "obscure". It was founded by a consortium of 9 major airlines and it recently merged with other on-line TAs, forming a mega shop. At any rate, you'll earn exactly what A3 promises for the ticket/fare class combination you bought.
As for the prices, I've never found any ticket which was 30% cheaper than what's offered in airlines' home pages. If i had, i would have grabbed it!
As for the prices, I've never found any ticket which was 30% cheaper than what's offered in airlines' home pages. If i had, i would have grabbed it!
Apr 4, 2017, 12:34 pm
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Can't say much about Tripsta and Gotogate, but I don't understand why you call Opodo "obscure". It was founded by a consortium of 9 major airlines and it recently merged with other on-line TAs, forming a mega shop. At any rate, you'll earn exactly what A3 promises for the ticket/fare class combination you bought.
As for the prices, I've never found any ticket which was 30% cheaper than what's offered in airlines' home pages. If i had, i would have grabbed it!
As for the prices, I've never found any ticket which was 30% cheaper than what's offered in airlines' home pages. If i had, i would have grabbed it!
Apr 4, 2017, 12:50 pm
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As long as you get to see the fare class before and check if it earns miles, you should be fine. The difficulty with such flights are often the additional services, eg, making changes to the itinerary after booking. Also you may not be able to upgrade to business class through a voucher as some OTA's issue Aegean tickets on other airlines stock.
Tripsta is the international brand name of travelplanet24.
Tripsta is the international brand name of travelplanet24.
Apr 4, 2017, 9:13 pm
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Apr 7, 2017, 4:44 am
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As long as you get to see the fare class before and check if it earns miles, you should be fine. The difficulty with such flights are often the additional services, eg, making changes to the itinerary after booking. Also you may not be able to upgrade to business class through a voucher as some OTA's issue Aegean tickets on other airlines stock.
Tripsta is the international brand name of travelplanet24.
Tripsta is the international brand name of travelplanet24.
Apr 7, 2017, 5:26 am
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But how it's possible to issue tickets into other airlines stock with A3 flight numbers if the itinerary only includes A3 flights? Ok, might be possible to issue OA 390-stock as they are "same" company, but not for others. With connections on UA for example it's possible, but don't think only with A3 flights.
OTA's can use this fact to compare prices, for the same flights, through different airlines. Normally going direct with Aegean would be the cheapest, but in some cases it may be that eg United is actually cheaper.
Therefore you are not guaranteed that a ticket with only Aegean segments is always issued by Aegean. Through OA is indeed a common case (which also means that the tickets cannot be upgraded with a coupon by the way), but others are also possible.
Apr 9, 2017, 11:30 am
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I often book through Tripsta, never had any issue with them whatsoever.
Especially for open jaws or flights via ATH (eg. OTP-ATH-LHR) an OTA can often be significantly cheaper (and offering connections not available through the A3 website as often discussed here, for example with a night stopover in ATH).
Heck, even for a simple OW like OTP-ATH its often 4-5 EUR cheaper at Tripsta than at A3 or any other OTA.
Also upgrading ny OTA issued tickets with A3 coupons so far always worked.
(I use Tripsta's Irish website as its in English and prices in EUR)
Especially for open jaws or flights via ATH (eg. OTP-ATH-LHR) an OTA can often be significantly cheaper (and offering connections not available through the A3 website as often discussed here, for example with a night stopover in ATH).
Heck, even for a simple OW like OTP-ATH its often 4-5 EUR cheaper at Tripsta than at A3 or any other OTA.
Also upgrading ny OTA issued tickets with A3 coupons so far always worked.
(I use Tripsta's Irish website as its in English and prices in EUR)
Apr 18, 2017, 4:12 am
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I didn't know where to post this, so I'll park it here.
There's currently a quite attractive promo fare for direct DUB-LAX flights with Ethiopian....books into Q fare (100% earnings with Miles&Bonus), so that's 10,300 miles for around 375 EUR if you're willing to use one of the OTAs. It's also bookable directly on ET's website for not much more. I'm seeing lots of dates from September right through to March next year.
Quite a nice fare without having to fly up to Scandinavia!
https://www.google.com/flights/?curr...a=ET;so=p;eo=e
There's currently a quite attractive promo fare for direct DUB-LAX flights with Ethiopian....books into Q fare (100% earnings with Miles&Bonus), so that's 10,300 miles for around 375 EUR if you're willing to use one of the OTAs. It's also bookable directly on ET's website for not much more. I'm seeing lots of dates from September right through to March next year.
Quite a nice fare without having to fly up to Scandinavia!
https://www.google.com/flights/?curr...a=ET;so=p;eo=e