OK, so I'm up late as I continue to procrastinate on whatever it was I had to do-- I forgot....
but I was wondering out loud how much my LatinPass trip finally cost. I did a bunch of paid tickets plus one 20k CO award on COPA ticketed open jaw CCS-LIM-GUA with a PTY stopover on the return. Here's my itinerary, with prices as I look at the ticket receipts:
MDW-IAD-MIA on US Air/ Metrojet: about $89
MIA--CCS on Aeropostal $259.40
CCS--PTY--LIM on a CO award
LIM--UIO--LIM day trip on ACES (one seg for ACES, one counted as SAETA) $211.22
LIM-CUZ-LIM on TACA Peru with LIM-CUZ on a $171.10 Y fare and CUZ-LIM on a $50 cheapie
LIM--PTY on the CO award; stopover in PTY
Day trip PTY-SJO-BOG-PTY like so:
PTY-SJO on TA connecting to SJO-BOG on LR $292.00
BOG-PTY on Avianca partner SAM $177.10
PTY--GUA on the CO award
GUA--SAL--MGA with Aviateca GUA-SAL and COPA SAL-MGA $316.80
MGA--MIA on TA (substitute for NICA) $382.56
MIA-STL-BNA on TWA for about $89.
Total: $2038.18 plus 20k CO miles plus 2 car rental days plus 2 Fairfield Inn stays for 1 million LatinPass miles, which were used for some 25 coach tickets to Central/South America---> ballpark $95 per round trip award ticket.
The biggest challenge of the whole deal: finding a Thrifty rental car for my 19 year old travel buddy. Fortunately the Ann Arbor location was happy to take his money and he left the car sit on the lot!
