BMI/AC TATL: YUL/YOW-DME $367 (CAD$424) V Booking Code

[YYZC2]

Originally Posted by McScruffy

Silly Newbie question that I think has already been answered by Argonaut1000:

Can we fly out of say YYZ on Friday and return an the Sunday?

Thanks!

Yes. Minimum Saturday night stay.

[WGretzky]

if I just wanted to go to the UK for a vacation, could I just skip the LHR-DME, and DME-LHR segments and just fly from YOW-LHR-YOW without incurring any penalties?

[hobo13]

If you are a BMI Gold, I assume this would be upgradeable using BMI Gold Upgrade vouchers. Last I checked, they float around on CC a fair amount. <hint hint>

[Clincher]

Originally Posted by YYZC2

161 CAD fuel surcharge. FD potential? Negotiatior, anyone?

Is this even possible from the US?

Note, Priceline currently does not offer flights that depart from international cities.

Is there a Canadian PL site? That would do it eh?

[COOLIO]

Originally Posted by WGretzky

if I just wanted to go to the UK for a vacation, could I just skip the LHR-DME, and DME-LHR segments and just fly from YOW-LHR-YOW without incurring any penalties?

I am after the same. Happy Canada Day for yesterday

[sofasurfer]

Looks like this is good for Jan/Feb/Apr 2010 dates, too...

Also, it seems you don't need a Russian visa if you're planning to do an immediate turn (as reported by folk who did a UA MR to DME earlier this year)

10,240 miles to be got here, if I've got it right?

For those of you looking for a UK vacation, how about this: take a 'proper' stopover in London and then do the LHR-DME-LHR segment in one bite... I guess the stopover is only good in one direction? If so, it'd still be easy enough to work around to get a <24h transfer time on one leg, though - I could get to a friend's and leave my bags there, and just have carry-on for the pure MR section. For those of you staying in hotels, just keep your room for the length of time you need, leave your bags there, do the MR, and then nip back to pick up your bags that need to be checked

(or am I missing something *really* obvious here?)

I'm *very* tempted by this fare, wonder how tolerant Mrs Sofasurfer is feeling today...

[g_leyser]

Originally Posted by WGretzky

if I just wanted to go to the UK for a vacation, could I just skip the LHR-DME, and DME-LHR segments and just fly from YOW-LHR-YOW without incurring any penalties?

No. If you miss a segment, all subsequent segments are cancelled.

[YVR72]

I'm getting T class - not V, but still $428 ai. Why can't it work from YVR! (guess I shouldn't complain - I got in on the Spanair deal!)

[YVR72]

Originally Posted by sofasurfer

I'm *very* tempted by this fare, wonder how tolerant Mrs Sofasurfer is feeling today...

This is ALWAYS the deciding factor.

[keithguy]

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[sofasurfer]

Originally Posted by CP@YOW

The fare also allows for a free LHR stopover. (The all-in price actually goes up by about $20 due to an additional tax/fee of GBP 11).

I don't know where you got that GBP 11 figure from, but it looks wrong to me.

APD for UK-Russia is UKP40, to rise to UKP45 in Nov 09.

So you're looking at a $75-80CAN premium to work in a stopover in London, depending on when you fly.



e2a: OK, this seems inconsistent now... I just used ITA to price out

31st Dec 09 YYZ-LHR
2nd Jan 10 LHR-DME
3rd Jan 10 DME-LHR-YYZ

and it came back with APD at 11 UKP
Can anyone shed any light on why this is?

[kdywg]

I was hoping to take advantage of this, with a stop over in LHR, but I can't seem to find any multi-segment tool on the BMI site?

Use expedia, the fare increases $135.50 CAD for adding the stop over.

Any tips?

Thanks!

[jplondon]

Originally Posted by kdywg

I was hoping to take advantage of this, with a stop over in LHR, but I can't seem to find any multi-segment tool on the BMI site?

Use expedia, the fare increases $135.50 CAD for adding the stop over.

Any tips?

Thanks!

You cannot on bmi, but would give the same result.

[sofasurfer]

I've never tried it mysef, but when you "show booking details" under an ITA fare, you get:

"fare construction (sometimes useful for travel agents)"
(my italics)

Depending on if I can find a time slot that works for me (this is the only sticking point - grr!), I might try this with our travel agent downstairs (I work at a university, and they're pretty quiet right now so might be up for humoring me )

[spkg]

Originally Posted by YYZC2

161 CAD fuel surcharge. FD potential? Negotiatior, anyone?

Please pm me if you found a way to fd on ac!