Originally Posted by
guv1976
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"As for DUB-EMA... It's not going to be part of my award ticket at all, so I'm not worried."
OK; just make sure that, if you're not going to stop over in DUB on your return, you leave plenty of extra time to make the connection in DUB. Because you will be traveling on separate tickets, you will not be protected if you should miss your DUB-BOS flight due to delay or cancellation of your EMA-DUB flight.
To be honest, I'm now seriously confused between the two methods.
Here are the pros and cons.
BOS-DUB-BOS
Pros.
-Fly Business class for cheap.
-Get extra baggage allowance (Important to me)
Cons.
-Have to travel from Hartford to Boston.
-Time wasted (a few hours) for flight to EMA
-Cost of travel from DUB to Leicester (on a tight budget)
-Repeat inconvenient process in reverse on the way back.
-Was planning on saving avios for short trips across USA for residency interviews.
Total travel cost: 25k or 50k + roughly £350 ($530) expenses to and from Leicester.(surchages+flight to/from East Midlands+transportation to/from Leicester) + expenditure in getting from Hartford to Logan Airport (Boston) which would be roughly another $100.
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BDL-EWR-LHR-EWR-BDL
Pros.
-Fly directly from BDL.
-Less time wasted.
-Convenient travelling to and from Leicester
-Saves on my Avios.
Cons.
-Will have to travel economy to save on UA miles.
-Even economy costs more than Avios Business class.
-Will have to spend 100k to travel in Business class.
-Poor Business class availability.
-If travelling in coach, will have to sacrifice luggage allowance.
Total travel cost : 60k or 100k + roughly £300 ($460) in expenses (surcharges+travel to and from Leicester.)