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ATL to SFO 1st Class Award - 100k miles- Excessive?

ATL to SFO 1st Class Award - 100k miles- Excessive?

Old May 5, 2015, 10:48 am
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Just buy a coach ticket and then pay for Comfort + or see if you get a good buy up offer for First a few days after booking.
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Old May 5, 2015, 10:51 am
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Originally Posted by diamondwannabe
Thanks for the posts; we're going to go coach. We'll do first class another trip.
There are several options available those dates at 82,500. But they all include redeye returns.

Personally, I'd look at hopping on the ATL-LAX flat bed (5:25 departure from ATL) and connect LAX-SFO, which has hourly departures. Buy the flight out with miles (45,000) and the return one way in coach that's not a redeye.

For 90,000 you can do flat bed seats both out and return (both through LAX, return red eye).
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Old May 5, 2015, 11:40 am
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Do I think that's excessive, hell yes.

[Sorry read that as ATL-LAX first, not ATL-SFO.... so I've update the #s below.]

For comparison, AA has 4 flights in F on 6/18for 25k miles one way and 1 flight in F on 6/21 (including 1 non-stop) for 25k miles one way. There are even 12.5k Y seats on 6/18.

100k miles for a roundtrip in domestic F?!? No way.

Greg

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Old May 5, 2015, 2:17 pm
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Does it have to be SFO? Maybe cheaper to OAK or SJC? Last time I needed to go to San Francisco DL wanted ~$2400 for first class ORD-SFO RT. I flew ORD-OAK and SJC-MDW for about $800 RT all in paid first. You can get BART out of OAK if you aren't going to rent a car...
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Old May 5, 2015, 4:03 pm
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Originally Posted by diamondwannabe
I am considering treating a family member by flying first class to SFO from ATL.
The award travel rate is 90-100K for 1st class, yikes! This seems excessive to me, is it? Can I use Delta award miles on a partner for less? If so, how can I book that?
I appreciate any insight.
Thanks!
Wow that does seem high based on longer routes I have looked at. Last month I booked two award tickets for my wife's Aunt and Uncle to fly first class RT from EWR-MSP. Those two tickets were 100K total, which I thought was a little high but wanted to surprise my wife.
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Old May 5, 2015, 4:21 pm
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ATL-SFO is twice as far as EWR-MSP. Paid F is going for $1129 on ATL-SFO vs. $691 on EWR-MSP. Not really surprising they are being stingy with F award redemptions on this route when compared to EWR-MSP (or AA where the only options involve connections).
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