Originally Posted by
BostonGuy
Unfortunately, I need to roughly match my fellow travelers dates of 11/12 and 11/22 this time. Good to understand, though.
Dang it, if I traveled a little earlier or later, I could get that fare.
Your outbound date is fine and you'd qualify for the 97.7K D1 award in that direction since it's a Wednesday and there is OZ class availability. But you'd have to return on either Thu 11/20 or Mon 11/24 to meet the Mon-Thu travel requirement for these awards in the reverse direction. You can combine the roundtrip D1 awards in one direction with Main/C+/PS awards in the other and still meet the roundtrip booking requirements for these awards. If you booked D1 outbound on 11/12 and a Main return on 11/22, the total would be 97.7K + 52.7K = 150.4K miles. D1 outbound + PS return award would be 97.7K + 97.7K = 195.4K miles. Those Main and PS awards are the cheapest levels possible for Fri - Sun travel (they book into NV and RG classes respectively which are cheapest award classes for Main and PS).
Last edited by xliioper; Apr 24, 2025 at 4:40 pm