maximman121

This is epic. And sorry for the unrealistic request I actually just didn't know t was unrealistic! Thank you guys so much.

Richym99

You're welcome both of you.

Rio is always a great way to clock up an easy 20,000 miles cheaply from Europe. United have to compete with LH and others who fly direct to Rio, which is why it remains cheap.

The minimum V fare, upgradable with GPU's (I've always found to/from GIG a relatively easy upgrade) and the stopover in the US are huge bonuses.

BTW, the option of doing EWR-LAX/SFO-SIN is also open (LAX 22,448 for £547) - mileage per great circle mapper as UA has not published an LAX-SIN mileage yet.

circky

Departure Airport: YYZ
Miles Needed: 6,093
Required Spend or Budget: As little as possible
Available Travel Dates: Would prefer to be before Sept 15, as I have a $700CAD AC credit that expires.
Required Metal or Codeshares okay: Preferred AC Metal due to comment above. But if it ends up being cheaper for another carrier, then any star alliance will be fine.
Other Comments: Preferred to be AC and on premium economy or business class as I will not have to pay $200 change fee that I would have to for economy fare. Would also prefer to be in the air as little as possible

lksf

I just have two free weekends, looking to score something here

Departure Airport: SFO (and the area)
Miles Needed: as many as possible
Required Spend or Budget: minimum
Available Travel Dates: 7/14-17 or 7/21-24
Required Metal or Codeshares okay: as long as it's 100% pqm I'm good

Thanks

Kmxu

SFO-HKG-HGH/PVG-SFO-YVR for $317 in early September. Change the dates to a specific weekend that you may have time to do a MR. Also check this thread for further details. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/milea...-303-ai-7.html
Good luck.

https://www.google.com/flights/?sour...9-05;tt=m;eo=e

Extra 1400 PQM, $332, SFO-HNL-GUM-HKG-HGH/PVG-SFO-YVR
https://www.google.com/flights/?sour...YVR0UA784;eo=e

Brookner1

Looking for a late summer/early fall maximum miles run originating from Washington, DC. Looking for a minimum of 8,000 UA miles. Can do overnights. Any ideas?
Thanks
-Steve

PbodyPhoto

1) Don't ask for fares, we aren't your personal travel agent.
2) check back daily (several times daily yields best results)
3) play around on ita matrix and google flights to find good deals

wh6cto

With BE now in effect, it's hard to find anything domestically. Best I find right now is something like:

UA:$595 IAD-BKK 20070PQM (per UA) K-fare 2.97cpm
Mon 28 Aug
UA803 IAD-NRT 1230-1525+1day B772
Tue 29 Aug
NH805 NRT-BKK 1825-2310 B788
Wed 30 Aug
NH806 BKK-NRT 0650-1500 B788
UA838 NRT-SFO 1655-1040 B77W
UA486 SFO-IAD 1436-2253 B738

Link: https://goo.gl/flights/j8Vp

Similar price/routing available on many days after this, including routing that avoids 10-across 77W (i.e. via IAH).

I'm not 100% on the earnings on NH.

Good luck!

quintic

My friend is 1k member, and this year her qualification will depends on PQS (instead of PQM), PQD has already reached. The expectation is that she will be 10 segments short of 120 for 1k.
short distances flight is preferred. Any suggestions?

Departure Airport: EWR (and the area)
Miles Needed: N/A (10-12 segments)
Required Spend or Budget: minimum (time)
Available Travel Dates: Saturdays and Sundays
Required Metal or Codeshares okay: as long as it's 100% pqs

1KChinito

How much more flying will she have for remainder of this year? Can she add segments to her existing and future travel? Connecting flights instead of non-stop flights. That will be the easiest way to have 10 additional segments.

somewhat traveling actuary

Departure Airport: New York/ EWR
Miles Needed: 35k
Required Spend or Budget: minimum
Available Travel Dates: Anytime in July or August with shortest turnaround possible
Required Metal or Codeshares okay: As long as at least 100% PQM

quintic

She has about 70 segs now, so it is about 50 to go, it is a bit hard to add segs for her normal business travel. (short direct flight from EWR with tight schedule).

Only thing coming to my mind is EWR-IAD-BOS.

1KChinito

On her returns, presumably when she has more time, can she SDC from a non-stop to connecting flights? What are her normal routes?

quintic

PVD-EWR, and the flight has been constantly subject to delay, cancellation, due to air traffic control, and get back home late. The only options are ORD or IAD. I don't think she wants take a connecting flight after a stressful day.
She is fine with Plat, if she is just 10 segments short of 1k, I think it might be worth it to do a segment run.

TandroyFoty

Departure Airport: WAS ending in SEA (ideally, but could return to DC if before the 16th)
Miles Needed:about 10k-13k PQMs to 1K
Required Spend or Budget: Have $500 e-cert, could go one or two hundred over
Available Travel Dates: From Sept 6th onwards, the earlier the better
Required Metal or Codeshares okay: Any, PQDs irrelevant

I'm 1k and have 2 GPUs that I would like to use if this involves TPAC. Playing around on UA.com I found quite a few itineraries that would price DCA-IAH at $98, then IAH-ORD/SFO rather cheap, and SFO-TPAC for under $300 (all in W), but the return would always come in at $800 (and L fare). I've done a few others like DCA-IAH-ORD-YYZ-ORD-SFO-SEA as well, but there's always one leg that's a few hundred, 'ruining' the MR.

This will be my last chance at 1K for a while as I'm quitting my job and using my miles for a one year RTW in business with the lady-friend, so being 1K is going to make a huge difference for the change fees I'd avoid and the customer service support (spent three hours on the phone Sunday booking a SCL-GRU-CPT (5 day layover)-JNB-EBB in business for 57.5k miles).

Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.