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Old Apr 18, 2012 | 9:46 am
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eknock007
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Originally Posted by krpjr
Oh and I did find a 25k R/T domestic award. Except it wants me to leave @ 6:15am in the morning and then layover for 9hours to catch the connecting flight in the evening...RUN N TELL DAT, HOME BOI!
Last year I was looking to book a Cancun trip from LAX. Did find some sporadic stuff at the 35K miles levels with DL but there was one caveat: there were overnight layovers and multiple stops: total travel time for the R/T's range between 40 and 56 hrs. I remember that on one of the outbound flights I would have had like a 4 hr layover in MSP and a 16 hr layover in ATL. Seriously! Not to mention the extra flying because of the routing. I was like, "Hmmm what should I do: 20 hrs waiting at airport terminals or 20 hrs on the beach drinking margaritas." I ended up booking with United with a total R/T travel time of just under 13 Hrs.
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