Originally Posted by
rdrnnr
I find this hard to believe (and I've used IAP successfully for years now).
Assuming "several years" = 3 or more, then 3 x $550 = $1650 in savings, from ONE IAP purchase?!?
On what, a $12 or 15,000 First Class RT LAX-LHR?
Who even buys tickets like that? Surely not a lot of folks on these forums.
[MENTION=183065]scubadu[/MENTION]: example, please?!
I don't think this is wildly out of the norm. First, though you make some key assumptions that differ from my own. The annual fee isn't $550. Though people love to quote that, because it sounds big, but with airline credits, Uber credits, Saks credits and statement credits for having a Charles Schwab account the
effective fee (which is the
only fee that matters to me because it's what comes out of my pocket) is significantly less than $550 for most people.
So, example ok: wife and I just came back from Bali, Indonesia. Booked 2 round trip business class tickets on Cathay Pacific from LAX-HKG-DPS, all in paid business. IAP fare was ~$714 per ticket less than cathaypacific.com (verified with exact same routing in second browser, side by side) or anywhere else I could find.
$714x2 tickets = $1428 savings.
Mapped against my effective annual fee, yes, that is several years worth of annual fee saved on one purchase.
Regards