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Jan 25, 2018, 11:26 am
#556
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: YTZ
Programs: Hertz & Avis PC; National EE; SPG & Hilton Gold; AC 35K (yawn)
Posts: 5,921
Just booked for this fall! All in Y (I know), but there wasn't J availability anyway and we only had 90K points each...
EDIT: We are being charged 100,000 and not 90,000 points because Africa is a higher total even though we are going to Australia as our destination. I have never heard of this before. Anyone else?
EDIT: We are being charged 100,000 and not 90,000 points because Africa is a higher total even though we are going to Australia as our destination. I have never heard of this before. Anyone else?
Jan 25, 2018, 1:43 pm
#558
Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: YYZ, YUL, PEK
Posts: 429
Just booked for this fall! All in Y (I know), but there wasn't J availability anyway and we only had 90K points each...
EDIT: We are being charged 100,000 and not 90,000 points because Africa is a higher total even though we are going to Australia as our destination. I have never heard of this before. Anyone else?
YOW-EWR (12 hours) AC
EWR-MXP (12 hours) (Overnight flight) UA
MXP-ADD (3 hour transit in ADD) (Overnight flight) ET
ADD-VFA (STOP - 16 days) ET
VFA-GBE (3 hour transit) ET
GBE-JNB (19 hours) SA
JNB-SIN (13 hours) (Overnight flight) SQ
SIN-PER (DESTINATION - 6 days) SQ
PER-BKK (19 hours) TG
BKK-DXB (18 hours) TG
DXB-IST (21 hours) TK
IST-FCO (STOP - 8 days) TK
FCO-ZRH (23 hours) LX
ZRH-EWR (2 hour transit) UA
EWR-YOW UA
Taxes / fees / YQ / etc = $497.10 + $30 call fee (for each of us).
MPM = 18121
There: 17948
Home: 13795
EDIT: We are being charged 100,000 and not 90,000 points because Africa is a higher total even though we are going to Australia as our destination. I have never heard of this before. Anyone else?
YOW-EWR (12 hours) AC
EWR-MXP (12 hours) (Overnight flight) UA
MXP-ADD (3 hour transit in ADD) (Overnight flight) ET
ADD-VFA (STOP - 16 days) ET
VFA-GBE (3 hour transit) ET
GBE-JNB (19 hours) SA
JNB-SIN (13 hours) (Overnight flight) SQ
SIN-PER (DESTINATION - 6 days) SQ
PER-BKK (19 hours) TG
BKK-DXB (18 hours) TG
DXB-IST (21 hours) TK
IST-FCO (STOP - 8 days) TK
FCO-ZRH (23 hours) LX
ZRH-EWR (2 hour transit) UA
EWR-YOW UA
Taxes / fees / YQ / etc = $497.10 + $30 call fee (for each of us).
MPM = 18121
There: 17948
Home: 13795
Also makes you wonder, for economy class Africa 100K > Oceania 90K. For business class Africa 150K < Oceania's 160K. Why do we think that is?
Last edited by flyer05; Jan 25, 2018 at 1:52 pm
Jan 25, 2018, 2:12 pm
#559
Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: DC
Posts: 189
Finally able to book my itinerary after Ethiopian opened up award space for late 2018 and in J finally at that!
YUL BOS AC Y
BOS IST TK J
IST EBB TK J STOP
EBB ADD ET J
ADD DEL ET J
DEL KTM AI J STOP
KTM BKK TG J
BKK KUL TG J DES
KUL TPE BR J
TPE IAH BR J
IAH YUL AC J
Gorillas, Himalayas, Orangutans, Birdwatching and beaches. Does it get any better! 😁
$294 each ticket. A little higher than I had hoped. but unfortunately extra connections. 2 yrs ago did a similar route to Indonesia but less connections and was about $175 per ticket.
YUL BOS AC Y
BOS IST TK J
IST EBB TK J STOP
EBB ADD ET J
ADD DEL ET J
DEL KTM AI J STOP
KTM BKK TG J
BKK KUL TG J DES
KUL TPE BR J
TPE IAH BR J
IAH YUL AC J
Gorillas, Himalayas, Orangutans, Birdwatching and beaches. Does it get any better! 😁
$294 each ticket. A little higher than I had hoped. but unfortunately extra connections. 2 yrs ago did a similar route to Indonesia but less connections and was about $175 per ticket.
This is one of the more interesting routings I've seen (KTM / ADD)
Jan 29, 2018, 10:10 pm
#561
Join Date: Oct 2013
Posts: 77
Use the United search engine to find each individual leg - if it shows as a "Saver Award" in Economy, Business or First, you can book that flight with Aeroplan over the phone, only exception is Aer Lingus. You'll pay a $30 phone booking fee, but it's easy to save well over $30 in other fees by finding better flights this way.
Jan 31, 2018, 9:19 am
#562
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Canada
Programs: UA*1K MM SK EBG LATAM BL
Posts: 23,305
For economy, you can only book X class - economy lowest
Also, fees will of course be different, never lower, most of the times much higher for Aeroplan bookings.
Jan 31, 2018, 11:25 pm
#564
Join Date: Oct 2013
Posts: 77
besides united search engine, and other search engine is good to try?
Feb 1, 2018, 7:43 am
#565
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: YOW
Programs: AP, AM
Posts: 132
For ANA you'll need to sign up (free) to their rewards program. Then search by international partners award flights. It takes a bit of getting used to but was invaluable for helping me navigate through Africa.
Feb 1, 2018, 2:31 pm
#566
Join Date: Feb 2018
Programs: AE SE, SPG/Marriott Plat
Posts: 1
I thought I should share this one. All in J...except YYZ-YUL (so close...)
YHZ - LHR
LHR - BKK
BKK - SIN (Stop)
SIN - AKL (Turn)
AKL - PEK
PEK - ICN
ICN - YYZ
YYZ - YUL (open jaw)
Total 320K (2 pax) and ~550$ in total.
The tricky part was this did not work originating in YUL, but it did if we left from YHZ. If we had left from YUL, Auckland would have been closer than Singapore (a little counter intuitive, but yes) therefore making Singapore the destination and Auckland a stop over (which would have put us over MPM on the way back)
Kudos to the AE agent who suggested this workaround...
YHZ - LHR
LHR - BKK
BKK - SIN (Stop)
SIN - AKL (Turn)
AKL - PEK
PEK - ICN
ICN - YYZ
YYZ - YUL (open jaw)
Total 320K (2 pax) and ~550$ in total.
The tricky part was this did not work originating in YUL, but it did if we left from YHZ. If we had left from YUL, Auckland would have been closer than Singapore (a little counter intuitive, but yes) therefore making Singapore the destination and Auckland a stop over (which would have put us over MPM on the way back)
Kudos to the AE agent who suggested this workaround...
Feb 2, 2018, 10:24 am
#567
Join Date: Oct 2013
Posts: 77
I used a combo of United and ANA when I did my booking (see above somewhere).
For ANA you'll need to sign up (free) to their rewards program. Then search by international partners award flights. It takes a bit of getting used to but was invaluable for helping me navigate through Africa.
For ANA you'll need to sign up (free) to their rewards program. Then search by international partners award flights. It takes a bit of getting used to but was invaluable for helping me navigate through Africa.
Feb 2, 2018, 10:26 pm
#568
Join Date: Aug 2011
Posts: 174
not quite a mini-RTW
YVR-YUL-LGA/EWR-ARN-FRA-MLA (stop)
MLA-IST/SAW-TBS (turnaround)
TBS-IST-OPO (stop)
OPO-ZRH-YUL-YVR
115K in J + 389.26 + phone booking fee
YVR-YUL-LGA/EWR-ARN-FRA-MLA (stop)
MLA-IST/SAW-TBS (turnaround)
TBS-IST-OPO (stop)
OPO-ZRH-YUL-YVR
115K in J + 389.26 + phone booking fee
Feb 5, 2018, 10:28 pm
#569
Join Date: Oct 2013
Posts: 77
hi, guys: my mini RTW is YYZ-TPE-SYD-CDG-YYZ which is scheduled from March 2019 to May 2019. I just used the united airlines search engine to check the flight info and found those flights had not been posted yet. the latest flights is in Jan 2019. maybe a few months later. my question is should I book the award saver flights as early as possible (to lock the seat) or just a few months before the trip (more seats will be posted by the airlines later), which is better. thank you.
Feb 6, 2018, 9:46 pm
#570
Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 4,784
hi, guys: my mini RTW is YYZ-TPE-SYD-CDG-YYZ which is scheduled from March 2019 to May 2019. I just used the united airlines search engine to check the flight info and found those flights had not been posted yet. the latest flights is in Jan 2019. maybe a few months later. my question is should I book the award saver flights as early as possible (to lock the seat) or just a few months before the trip (more seats will be posted by the airlines later), which is better. thank you.
Book ASAP because they'll be GONE and very unlikely to be released later until possibly T-2 weeks