Efilon87

All on AA metal. Will include some overnights in MIA and PTY. AA agent was quite surprised and impressed that the routing priced how it did.

sfo-lax-tpa-mia-pty-mia-sfo; $414; 5.1CPM; 8,047mi

San Francisco (SFO) to Los Angeles (LAX) — Fri, Apr 24
American Airlines Inc. 209
Dep: 6:30 pm
Arr: 7:56 pm
1h 26m
Boeing 737
Economy (Q)
Layover in LAX
2h 54m

Los Angeles (LAX) to Tampa (TPA) — Fri, Apr 24
American Airlines Inc. 1358
Dep: 10:50 pm
Arr: 6:26 am
4h 36m
Boeing 737
Economy (Q)
Layover in TPA
Sat, Apr 25
1h 9m

Tampa (TPA) to Miami (MIA) — Sat, Apr 25
American Airlines Inc. 1575
Dep: 7:35 am
Arr: 8:40 am
1h 5m
Boeing 737
Economy (Q)
Layover in MIA
1h 0m

Miami (MIA) to Panama City (PTY) — Sat, Apr 25
American Airlines Inc. 1021
Dep: 9:40 am
Arr: 11:47 am
3h 7m
Boeing 737
Economy (Q)


Panama City (PTY) to Miami (MIA) — Sun, Apr 26
American Airlines Inc. 1474
Dep: 3:25 pm
Arr: 7:27 pm
3h 2m
Boeing 737
Economy (Q)
Layover in MIA
11h 58m

Miami (MIA) to San Francisco (SFO) — Mon, Apr 27
American Airlines Inc. 167
Dep: 7:25 am
Arr: 10:37 am
6h 12m
Boeing 767
Economy (Q)

Total cost for 1 passenger
$414.60

-Efilon87

ianmanka

It's part of the larger "anywhere in the US"-PTY $414 fare mentioned here: AA: US / Canada - PTY. $350ish r/t.

Booked from HNL or ANC, you can get it under 4cpm. The fare also allows open-jaws, and it's bookable in both directions so you can nest a couple of trips.

For me, the positioning costs to HNL or ANC is the tricky part.

boss315

The overnights really negate the savings on this unless one uses up hotel points for this. Even with a cheap hotel, it adds another $200 to it.......

Paul5795

"Hampton by Hilton" in PTY is a Cat 1 HHonors property that gets decent Tripadvisor reviews. I booked it for four nights at only 5k points a night. Since I (and various travel bloggers) value Hhonors points at only about $.004 each, that's only about $20 a night, or $80 for my stay.

FijiBill

If you have silver status on Hilton you should be able to get a 5th night for free.

Paul5795

An even better deal then! But wasn't thinking of that when looking for the minimum AA fare layover (four nights) in PTY.

The Hilton devaluation of a year or two ago battered top-end redemptions but left the lower-end redemptions still pretty sweet.

JetSetDave

Thanks for the reminder, booked 3 nights using HHonors points.