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Old Jan 6, 2018 | 12:48 pm
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Yes, there are now awards out there that require a roundtrip purchase and this has been discussed here several times. However, I'm seeing one-way awards starting 20.5K and many at 24K on the 14th. The 55K options are only showing on meandering 3 segment routings and consist of 3 separate fares (examples of broken fare awards). None of those routings show up when doing a roundtrip search so you are pretty much comparing apples and oranges.

The roundtrip award fares all have an 'R' in their fare codes. For a roundtrip outbound on the 14th, the cheapest fare is a YSVR140 at 14K which requires Tue/Wed/Sat travel and a Sat night or min 3 day stay. On the return, if you can wait until the 20th there's a YSVR125 12.5K fare for a total of 26.5K total. The 12.5K fare is only offered on select dates starting on the 20th. All this info can be found in the fare rules link when pricing out awards.

Going out past mid-March, I'm not really seeing many roundtrip fare options for this route. Just mostly one-way awards starting at YSV150 15K awards (note the lack of the R in the fare code). So the cheapest roundtrip option would just be a simply combination of these two one-way 15K awards for 30K total. The YSV150 awards have a 60-day advance purchase requirement.

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