Daniel
Jul 5, 03, 12:45 pm
I know it is early in the year, but with R&R and things tightening up from 2002, I want to do what I can to preserve status into 2004.
I am based at DFW which really only allows me to connect through CLT (937 miles) PIT (1302 miles) or PIT (1068 miles) to any destination. USairways.com doesn't seem to allow me to create a zigzag like DFW-PHL-SFO though DFW-CLT-IND is OK.
1. Obviously PHL is the best connecting point given 370 adtl miles - so round trip with R&R that comes to over 1,400 adtl tier miles....
2. Prefer to keep most round trips between 1-4 days, preferably between Fri-Mon though will consider other options.
3. I'm willing to fly R-T from lets say DFW-BOS and then take shuttles to gain miles in between.
4. Want to minimize total cost and number of legs flown, with timing being a consideration too.
5. Destinations aren't as important as cost/time factor.
I don't know of any tried and true way to search the pricing engines to find the best deals from DFW through US to any particular city on their network. If there is a way to do this I would simply check that every day a few times and pick out itineraries that work best.
I would be happy to go international, in fact I'd love to do a trip back to London if I could likely score a systemwide upgrade (last year net of taxes I did that for $383 form DFW through PHL with Wings and GOM).
I notice that discount fares are way up this year, in fact, I notice many cities that I could easy score $200/rt for are now up to almost $400. I know that e-savers are a good way to go but lately there haven't been many from DFW.
Oh, here is one more thing that might help. I have a voucher for fixed fare between zones that may be cheaper to do some of this but I don't know if fars will be better that way.
Thanks in advance for any tips. Feel free to point me toward any fare builder tools that can find this (didn't expedia have some dream fare tool or something)?
I am based at DFW which really only allows me to connect through CLT (937 miles) PIT (1302 miles) or PIT (1068 miles) to any destination. USairways.com doesn't seem to allow me to create a zigzag like DFW-PHL-SFO though DFW-CLT-IND is OK.
1. Obviously PHL is the best connecting point given 370 adtl miles - so round trip with R&R that comes to over 1,400 adtl tier miles....
2. Prefer to keep most round trips between 1-4 days, preferably between Fri-Mon though will consider other options.
3. I'm willing to fly R-T from lets say DFW-BOS and then take shuttles to gain miles in between.
4. Want to minimize total cost and number of legs flown, with timing being a consideration too.
5. Destinations aren't as important as cost/time factor.
I don't know of any tried and true way to search the pricing engines to find the best deals from DFW through US to any particular city on their network. If there is a way to do this I would simply check that every day a few times and pick out itineraries that work best.
I would be happy to go international, in fact I'd love to do a trip back to London if I could likely score a systemwide upgrade (last year net of taxes I did that for $383 form DFW through PHL with Wings and GOM).
I notice that discount fares are way up this year, in fact, I notice many cities that I could easy score $200/rt for are now up to almost $400. I know that e-savers are a good way to go but lately there haven't been many from DFW.
Oh, here is one more thing that might help. I have a voucher for fixed fare between zones that may be cheaper to do some of this but I don't know if fars will be better that way.
Thanks in advance for any tips. Feel free to point me toward any fare builder tools that can find this (didn't expedia have some dream fare tool or something)?