Originally Posted by IceTrojan
...So I play with ITA... and for $192 I booked LAX-SFO-ORD-MCI-ORD-LAX, with enough time at SFO to have my meeting...
Lesson learned/useful cliche: Think outside the box.
Originally Posted by sadiqhassan
*Sigh*
From Toronto, USD200 won't even get you to 225 miles to Ottawa, let alone across the entire country
I'm living in envy
1. Mileage runs can be done out of Toronto, but often are cheaper out of Buffalo.
2. I did my first run in February out of Toronto: 13 segments (a 9 segment YYZ-LGA-ORD-STL-DFW-ABQ-DFW-STL-ORD-BUF and a 4-segment ABQ-DFW-SJT-DFW-ABQ end-on-end) on business in ABQ, weekended in SJT) for ~US$460 all in.
Result: 6551 QFF points (min 500/segment) or about 7 US cents/QFF point
I suspect it would be worth more on AAdvantage.
3. The 9-segment YYZ-ABQ-BUF could have been a straight mileage run with an overnight in ABQ for about US$250 (+ overnight in ABQ), a bit more if returning to Toronto.
(Aside: For ~US$500 I could have returned directly to Toronto, but my son had planned to be in Buffalo for a hockey game and returning to Canada that night, so I bought the cheaper return ABQ-BUF.
As it turned out, the connection from STL arrived too late in ORD to catch the last flight to BUF, so I generously offered to take a flight to YYZ, rather than be put up overnight near ORD by AA and arriving in BUF next day with no ride.)