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Old Nov 1, 2014, 9:12 pm
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Ua: Sfo-icn-gum-hnl-lax-sfo ($757.20/14,522)
Bought this in combination with an E-cert to make it $.04/mile. Not great for a pure RDM run, but good for a status run. Spent 20K + $75 to get BF/First the entire trip.

Lots of available dates for the month of November via ITA, leaving Sunday or Tuesday.
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Old Nov 1, 2014, 9:16 pm
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Originally Posted by kryshakm
Spent 20K + $75 to get BF/First the entire trip.
What??
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Old Nov 1, 2014, 9:59 pm
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Originally Posted by keloutwest
What??
20k miles?
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Old Nov 1, 2014, 10:00 pm
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That's what the website offered me for an upgrade after purchasing. 20K miles + $75.
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Old Nov 1, 2014, 10:04 pm
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Originally Posted by kryshakm
That's what the website offered me for an upgrade after purchasing. 20K miles + $75.
So you are earning -5500 miles on this trip....
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Old Nov 1, 2014, 10:11 pm
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Originally Posted by Doc Savage
So you are earning -5500 miles on this trip....
Still a net positive due to RDM bonus. But I'm not doing it for the RDM's... Too many of them already
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Old Nov 1, 2014, 10:27 pm
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$757 is a really good deal. My annual trip to Guam costs about $2,100 in Y.
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Old Nov 1, 2014, 11:11 pm
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Oooh...can this be routed on the island hopper (vs. the GUM-HNL nonstop)? And how much, if any, of it is YQ? I have a $500 e-cert that doesn't work on anything but base fare (had to cancel a trip to MAD I put on hold because the base fare was $50 and the YQ was $500, so the cert was useless).

Will play around with it, but would love any advice on anything. Looking for early December and would stay up to several days in any city this routes through...
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Old Nov 1, 2014, 11:16 pm
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Oooh...can this be routed on the island hopper (vs. the GUM-HNL nonstop)? And how much, if any, of it is YQ? I have a $500 e-cert that doesn't work on anything but base fare (had to cancel a trip to MAD I put on hold because the base fare was $50 and the YQ was $500, so the cert was useless).

Will play around with it, but would love any advice on anything. Looking for early December and would stay up to several days in any city this routes through...
That was my initial question, too. Let us know if you find anything.^
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Old Nov 2, 2014, 1:32 am
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That was my initial question, too. Let us know if you find anything.^
I found $749, albeit on the SFO-ICN nonstops. Routing via GUM seemed to make the base fare go up from $174ow to $262.50ow. Could just be crappy ITA search results (too bad it's being so difficult now).

A few notes to help in searching:

-It's a K fare
-The fare break point is ICN, not GUM (as I had mistakenly originally assumed)
-There is a $300 YQ. The base fare is $348--perfect for a $350 voucher, I guess...

If I'm reading it right, it's the fare filed as a round-trip K fare for $348, which contains the following routing rules:

Results from ExpertFlyer.com
Code:
Fare Routing Search:
Departing SFO on 11/02/14 for ICN
Fare basis code KLX0ZMM8
Flying UA
Routing via Pacific

    V FARE BASIS     BK    FARE   TRAVEL-TICKET AP  MINMAX  RTG
  1   KLX0ZMM8       K‡R   348.00        T30NV  -/‡  -/ 6M PA01
PASSENGER TYPE-ADT                 AUTO PRICE-YES              
FROM-SFO TO-SEL    CXR-UA    TVL-02NOV14  RULE-PW2S IPRP/3
FARE BASIS-KLX0ZMM8          SPECIAL FARE  DIS-E   VENDOR-ATP
FARE TYPE-XPN      RT-INSTANT PURCHASE NONREFUNDABLE-TYPE FARES
USD   348.00  0501  E22OCT14 D-INFINITY   FC-KLX0ZMM8  FN-2J   
SYSTEM DATES - CREATED 21OCT14/1616  EXPIRES INFINITY
 
PUBLISHED RTG SFO-SEL/UA501 /TAR-TPRG    EF-22OCT14 DIS-INDEF
 
/VIA THE PACIFIC/
MAP CONSTRUCTED LEFT TO RIGHT AND RIGHT TO LEFT
 1. SFO-SFO/SEA/LAX-HNL-WP/UA/HA-OGG/MKK/LNY/LIH/KOA/JHM/ITO-
    WP/UA/HA-HNL-GUM-TYO/OSA-UA/OZ-SEL
 2. SFO-HNL-WP/UA/HA-OGG/MKK/LNY/LIH/KOA/JHM/ITO-WP/UA/HA-HNL-
    GUM-TYO/OSA-UA/OZ-SEL
 3. SFO-SNA-HNL-WP/UA/HA-OGG/MKK/LNY/LIH/KOA/JHM/ITO-WP/UA/HA-
    HNL-GUM-TYO/OSA-UA/OZ-SEL
.
Hope this helps. If anyone finds any availability in early December for up to a week or 10 days or so (especially doing it as a stopover in GUM or HNL rather than ICN, which I've been to twice in the last six months), let me know...

Edited to add: According to the EF grid, the fare expires 11/30/14, so I doubt it'll work in December. That explains why I was only seeing things on 11/27 and 11/30.
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Old Nov 2, 2014, 3:39 am
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Originally Posted by keloutwest
What??
Originally Posted by montezume
20k miles?
Originally Posted by kryshakm
That's what the website offered me for an upgrade after purchasing. 20K miles + $75.
my sources tell me that UA is now beta testing the offering of "TOD instrument upgrades"

this is one of those odd things that can happen on quick return "circle trips"
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Old Nov 2, 2014, 7:50 am
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TOD instrument upgrades?
Huh? :-)
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Old Nov 2, 2014, 3:55 pm
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Thanks a million, jackal. I'll have to see what I can squeeze in.
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Old Nov 2, 2014, 8:04 pm
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Originally Posted by kryshakm
Bought this in combination with an E-cert to make it $.04/mile. Not great for a pure RDM run, but good for a status run. Spent 20K + $75 to get BF/First the entire trip.

Lots of available dates for the month of November via ITA, leaving Sunday or Tuesday.
I did something kind of similar last week: EWR-NRT-GUM-MNL-GUM-HNL-IAH-LGA but wasn't offered anything as sweet as 20k +$75!! I was told 30k+$600 each way. Don't understand why so different
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Old Nov 2, 2014, 8:45 pm
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HA not UA: $772 SFO-HNL (24 hours)-ICN on this day only per ITA Matrix
San Francisco (SFO) to Seoul (ICN) - Tue, Dec 2

Hawaiian Airlines, Inc. San Francisco (SFO) to Honolulu (HNL) - Tue, Dec 2
Hawaiian Airlines, Inc. 11 Dep: 8:45AM Arr: 12:15PM 5h 30m Airbus A330 Economy (Z)

Layover in HNL 23h 40m

Hawaiian Airlines, Inc. Honolulu (HNL) to Seoul (ICN) - Wed, Dec 3
Hawaiian Airlines, Inc. 459 Dep: 11:55AM Arr: 6:25PM 11h 30m Airbus A330 Economy (Z)
Thu, Dec 4


Seoul (ICN) to San Francisco (SFO) - Thu, Dec 11
Hawaiian Airlines, Inc. Seoul (ICN) to Honolulu (HNL) - Thu, Dec 11
Hawaiian Airlines, Inc. 460 Dep: 8:45PM Arr: 9:55AM 8h 10m Airbus A330 Economy (Z)
Layover in HNL 3h 55m

Hawaiian Airlines, Inc. Honolulu (HNL) to San Francisco (SFO) - Thu, Dec 11
Hawaiian Airlines, Inc. 12 Dep: 1:50PM Arr: 9:00PM 5h 10m Airbus A330 Economy (Z)


Cost per passenger (including taxes & fees) $772.10
Total cost for 1 passenger $772.10
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