Longest award seat in C with least miles required
Sep 14, 2016, 9:07 am
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Longest award seat in C with least miles required
Last several years there were bunch of devaluations for award travel at major airlines. So the question is, at this moment, which program is offering longest award flight in C with least amount of miles required?
I personally have two candidates - EWR-HNL on UA's p.s. service (domestic flight) and SIN-CPT (international) with SQ.
Any other candidates?
I personally have two candidates - EWR-HNL on UA's p.s. service (domestic flight) and SIN-CPT (international) with SQ.
Any other candidates?
Sep 14, 2016, 11:11 am
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Sep 14, 2016, 3:22 pm
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The private lists might have the most intriguing routings you can finagle out of a website or phone agent for a given award.
But I'm interested in the answer to the basic question in the OP, which is just about the award charts themselves. C awards have been devalued pretty badly in the past couple years on a variety of airlines...where do some sweet spots still exist today?
I don't have any better answers. A long Hawaii award, if you can get it on a flight that has a decent C product, is a decent guess.
But I'm interested in the answer to the basic question in the OP, which is just about the award charts themselves. C awards have been devalued pretty badly in the past couple years on a variety of airlines...where do some sweet spots still exist today?
I don't have any better answers. A long Hawaii award, if you can get it on a flight that has a decent C product, is a decent guess.
Sep 14, 2016, 4:54 pm
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I cannot imagine it is still possible but the best I ever heard of was KIX-SFO-ICN-SFO-KIX in F on United for the price of a KIX-ICN round trip, something like 20,000 miles at the time.
This was done long, long ago by (now) blogger LuckyCoins (Ben Schlappig) when he discovered the UA had no eligible flights between KIX and ICN. United allowed it for some unknown reason.
This was done long, long ago by (now) blogger LuckyCoins (Ben Schlappig) when he discovered the UA had no eligible flights between KIX and ICN. United allowed it for some unknown reason.
Sep 14, 2016, 5:06 pm
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EWR-HNL is not p.s. service, unless you mean p.s. to LAX/SFO, but then non-p.s. to HNL. EWR-HNL flight actually has very light service.
Sep 14, 2016, 6:40 pm
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I cannot imagine it is still possible but the best I ever heard of was KIX-SFO-ICN-SFO-KIX in F on United for the price of a KIX-ICN round trip, something like 20,000 miles at the time.
This was done long, long ago by (now) blogger LuckyCoins (Ben Schlappig) when he discovered the UA had no eligible flights between KIX and ICN. United allowed it for some unknown reason.
This was done long, long ago by (now) blogger LuckyCoins (Ben Schlappig) when he discovered the UA had no eligible flights between KIX and ICN. United allowed it for some unknown reason.
What I am interested in is nonstop flight from A to B on a cabin with lie-flat seats. This is why I mentioned p.s. for UA. But thanks to correction, now it does not qualify - it is not non-stop flight and seats on UA's EWR-HNL route are not lie-flat.
So, still waiting for other candidates.
Sep 14, 2016, 6:43 pm
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Wiki has list of 30 longest currently scheduled flights but I doubt that any of them would be useful - they are all premium routes. I am rather interested next 30 - there could be some interesting combinations.
Sep 14, 2016, 8:20 pm
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As this is a "miles"-related topic that spans multiple programs, we'll move this over to MilesBuzz for further discussion. Thanks! 
/JY1024, TravelBuzz co-moderator
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Sep 14, 2016, 9:35 pm
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Awards assistance tools Use at your own risk. These may not be up to date. If a multi segment award check the rules/cost carefully. (These are not recommendations).
- AwardAce: Compare Award Redemptions Across Airlines In Seconds -->http://www.awardace.com/
- Economical Excursionist's Tools to compare Frequent Flyer Mile Redemptions --> http://www.flyermiler.com/
- http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trave...ast-miles.html --> http://www.awardhacker.com/
Sep 15, 2016, 8:41 am
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this cant be first thread on this topic right? but no master thread/wiki/etc. that is all i was saying.
Mwenenzi, that is the whole point, comparing numerical values
nice
seems 38.25K for SQ (via SQ) in OP
SQ (via SQ) seems to have some good stop options
Mwenenzi, that is the whole point, comparing numerical values
nice
seems 38.25K for SQ (via SQ) in OP
SQ (via SQ) seems to have some good stop options
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What I am interested in is nonstop flight from A to B on a cabin with lie-flat seats. This is why I mentioned p.s. for UA. But thanks to correction, now it does not qualify - it is not non-stop flight and seats on UA's EWR-HNL route are not lie-flat.
So, still waiting for other candidates.
So, still waiting for other candidates.
Midwest to Hawaii...one-stop via the West Coast...isn't as attractive since it's quite possibly RJ + narrowbody. I'd rather save my miles and just fly it in Y.