Originally Posted by
ThunderStorm00
Duh!! Now that would've helped!! I am out of LAX. Thanks for chiming in you guys!
I was getting nothing but snide remarks over at the "Trick-It" thread. I don't know what happens to this otherwise friendly and sharing forum when you go there.
@ThunderJon, that's actually what I'm kind of doing too! I'm red-eyeing into ORD, then doing a same day back to ORD before flying back to LAX!! Crazy.
Unfortunately I could only find the cheapest O Fare on Tues & Thurs so I've booked up as many as I could but now still need
@TheBOSman, Thank you! I was lucky that I had the LAX address or I don't know how I would be killing myself right now having missed out on the Jan Promo LOL
@Clacko Thanks, something like that or other creative long-haul ideas... I unfortunately can't use the one you mentioned b/c our Promo challenge has to be completed by 3/31 but I will check out that routing to see what the cpm amounts to.
That's kind of how folks are there (I am a very minor poster in the grand scheme of the thread so I've learned the ropes of handling the thread a bit) but I know very little about it. PMing me won't do much good, I can't help much with that. Just have a thick skin and show some (ok, a lot of) willingness to learn. And I pumped the DEQAA January promo for all I could get, on a plane every single weekend (once to LAX, twice to SFO and once to Costa Rica
). Got somewhere around 22,000 bonus miles IIRC in addition to the flight miles.
However, there should be some decent LAX-BOS midweek fares in March. I mention BOS simply because I look at the fares on a near daily basis, especially to LAX and SFO. I have one booked for $240 in early March, but straight BOS-LAX-BOS. Not the best CPM, but decent/OK, and gets me stickers I need and a step closer to EXP, which I'm now set to make in May during the return of an Asia trip. You can try to route via ORD or DFW both ways to BOS for not much more $ depending on what days you can do and availability (weekends are pretty high right now for BOS-LAX). I see some $261 fares LAX-ORD-BOS-ORD-LAX on the first two Tuesdays and Wednesdays in March, that could net you a little over 8700 EQMs with the bonus. $199 fares LAX-ORD-LAX as well. If booking LAX-ORD-BOS, watch out for the direct same flight number flights, you will not get DEQ11 credit for these.
And does Google Flights work better? I've been having a lot of issues with ITA lately (despite being a fairly advanced user) and if GFlights works better, I'll have to adjust myself to it. Good luck!