Mileage Run Deals - Searching by airline group, min EQM % and adjacent cities
thegeneral
Aug 6, 06, 6:54 pm
I'm trying to combine a MR with some travel that I want to do. I want to be able to search for my destination and other major nearby airports (excluding those that only service cessnas), with a minimum EQM % (150% minimum for example) and I'd like to search SkyTeam partners for flights excluding all of the other airlines. Anyone have any hints on how I can do this? Farecompare kind of does this but the flights arent always available, it doesn't show adjacent cities without another search and it doesn't show fare class. Anyone have any advice?
cfischer
Aug 6, 06, 8:12 pm
not really MR stuff, but you can select Skyteam and nearby airports on Orbitz.com; I doubt any engine can do the mile% thing for you as well.
sbagdon
Aug 7, 06, 6:34 am
I'd presume that as long as the SkyTeam search also includes the airline and fare, you can just figure it out from memory (and price is a good datum point). For NW, it would be B fare or greater for 150% EQM, forget what CO and DL is for 150% (anything below Y?).
Steve B.
crhptic
Aug 7, 06, 8:36 am
I'm trying to combine a MR with some travel that I want to do. I want to be able to search for my destination and other major nearby airports (excluding those that only service cessnas), with a minimum EQM % (150% minimum for example) and I'd like to search SkyTeam partners for flights excluding all of the other airlines. Anyone have any hints on how I can do this? Farecompare kind of does this but the flights arent always available, it doesn't show adjacent cities without another search and it doesn't show fare class. Anyone have any advice?
You can do all of this on ITA
http://matrix.itasoftware.com
You can select airports within a certain radius (and/or specify which airports).
You can select fare classes (you have to know what the fare classes are, but assuming you know that, you can specify only the ones earning 150% EQM).
You can select airlines.
You have to use a fairly complicated routing language to accomplish ALL of the above at once, but you could probably run through each of the SkyTeam airlines in turn pretty quickly. If you want to post some specifics (i.e. which airport(s) you are talking about) I would be happy to help with the queries.