Originally Posted by
T8191
However, and this is pertinent to your future thinking, The_Bouncer, we rarely pay more than £1,500 each regardless of destination - and that includes the ex-JER element. We're in the same camp as frandrake - £1500 is our target price. Our 3 trips to Hawaii ranged from £1150-£1600, and even PHX/ANC was only £1850. Our next PHX is just £1299, via LHR. So, there is a middle road to follow which will perhaps leave you with a slightly thinner wallet to sit on but will at least let you escape from the back of the bus! And the research into good fares and pleasant destinations is enjoyable in its own way!
Have a good flight in F!
Thanks. This middle road is possibly the way forward for me in the future. On the occasions when I have flown in J, it has taken the edge off the long haul flying, but I've never considered it worth paying out 2k+ per ticket.
If I can get it for the kind of rates you and frandrake are talking about, I might consider it if the prices are tempered by 250% credit to AS. Part of my rationalisation for spending the cash on this F flight was the 450% credit giving me ca. 40k AS miles, very conservatively worth at least £400.