US Airways Dividend Miles (Pre-FlightFund Merger) - $307 rt NEWARK, NJ To FRANKFURT, GERMANY

Roundtrip Fares Departing From
NEWARK, NJ To FRANKFURT, GERMANY
$307

You may depart on Mondays to Fridays, between April 23 and May 11, 2001. Return
travel is Mondays to Fridays, between April 30 and May 18, 2001. Saturday night
stay is required. Tickets must be purchased by April 26, 2001.

Purchase E-Savers online at http://www.usairways.com/reservations/index.htm
To find these fares, simply enter your origin and destination cities, select "My
Travel Dates are Flexible" and choose from a list of low fares. Tickets must be
purchased at the time of reservation.

It's a shame you have to fly backwards to PIT to get this routing from EWR. That adds about 3 hours off your total trip time, so if it's worth the savings, then go for it. But if CO offered a similar deal, nonstop, for $400 I'd take it for the added convenience of nonstop - even if it means sacrificing miles.

This e-saver special is also available from a bunch of other cities, not EWR only, to both MUC and FRA. See http://www.usairways.com/esavers/offers_fra_muc.htm for details. BTW, the fare from Philly, which depending on where you live in New Jersey, can be as convenient as EWR, is $287.

RZ

What's the success rate been for anyone trying to book this for May?

Originally posted by TPA us ff:
What's the success rate been for anyone trying to book this for May?

Zero. On Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Today, I tried all the esaver fares for FRA for every day of the sale, for Portland, ME/ BOS/MHT/PVD/ORH/BDL, for the hubs & BWI, and for all of NYC. They all come up sold out. Leading me to believe that the critical "Hub-FRA" legs are e-saver sold-out. Anyone know of a better way to determine/confirm this?

Most of the fares under $700RT to FRA are unavailable thru Jun 30, at this time. Then again, I have discovered that they sometimes release a few tickets at a time for some fares/routes, but I haven't really been looking at the e-savers behavior as much.

This recent round of fares seems to be really pushed and, given the lateness of the availability, the length of this e-saver (3 weeks of dates), coupled with the recently ended (which had an end-date that slipped 3 times!) "thru Jun 15 sale", I would suspect the few seats they actually released at on e-saver, went like hotcakes. Probably an apetite whetting maneouver; hope for a "late spring/early summer" followup if seat sales remain slack.

[This message has been edited by unixguy (edited 04-23-2001).]