Originally Posted by
SFO777
I really appreciate your comments. We used miles on this trip... a ridiculous 800K round trip for the two of us. The best ex-USA fare that I've seen during periodic AF sales is in the $5K range from NYC, SFO and IAH. LAX is rarely discounted as much and then mainly on the A380. Last year, we bought OSL-JFK roundtrip for around $3,700 and for about $400 more was able to change the return from JFK to SFO.
For what it's worth, I've been able to finagle a good fare out of LHR to BOS (thru Paris and JFK) for about $1850 (dollars not pounds) each way with Premiere on the Paris-New York legs in December/January. Some downsides: the A380 on the way to the US which most (all?) agree is less desirable than the 777 and need to go from LaGuardia to JFK on the way out (probably some way to finagle that but I ended up just booking business for the short BOS-CDG-LON overnight on return; plan to purchase the Premiere ground package (I'd pay 300 euros to avoid a Friday cab ride between LGA and JFK)).
Further for what it's worth, I'm taking Swiss first on the way back on the second trip at similar pricing. Looking forward to seeing the new ZRH lounge.
I assume it's attributable to the sinking pound but worth investigating.