Originally Posted by
golfingboy
I know FT is the worst place to get confirmation that I am not insane but to take advantage of this fare I am considering the following itinerary.
Around $2400 all in for the BA/QR sectors with AMEX IAP discount and QRSUBSCRIBER. Then a mixture of $$$/points for the positioning flights.Net me in $6,901 EQDs and 51,759 EQMs. Pretty much secures Platinum.
Half insane half genius?
We are on the exact same page, my friend. I'm considering doing basically the same thing, with a flight to India out of YYZ on BA PE, and then the QR flights in J. The only thing is trying to figure out my personal schedule in order to take advantage of the second flights to India/Sri Lanka. Nested flights would let me get two trips/vacations out of this instead of a vacation trip and a mileage run trip. I'm thinking BA outbound to India in May, outbound in QR in May (CMB-PHL), with QR return in August (PHL-CMB) and BA return in August.
Is the AMEX IAP discount better than on BA.com? So far I'm seeing QR for $1200 with QRSUBSCRIBER and YYZ-DEL for $1250 on BA.com (no discount code that I can find).