Jumper Jack

Good time to consider a world traveler pass no?

24left

Forget WAW, for $7,000 he can fly AC to SYD or BNE.

canadiancow

I was thinking of starting my own thread about this, but it fits here pretty well.

I have an annual budget for "learning and development". It's fairly large. However, I still have a travel policy. And while it doesn't explicitly say "don't book full Y when Tango K is available", I also don't want to be the guy who ruins something good.

I'm willing to book AC to attend a conference in Europe. However, I want to upgrade. So I want to book PY, Latitude, or Flex. Preferably PY (since it's cheaper than Latitude, and higher onload priority than Lat or Flex).

However, on the dates I looked at (which are pretty fixed because it's a conference), the cheaper of Flex and PY (I think it was PY one way, Flex the other, to get the cheapest upgradeable ticket) is twice the price of "cheapest AC", which is slightly more than "cheapest".

So sure, this means that little old bottom-feeding cow can't upgrade.

Except this travel is entirely discretionary.

So I stay home, and AC gets no money. *A gets no money. No airline gets any money.

They really suck at extracting revenue from discretionary travelers.

24left

Random Dates, Business Lowest YYZ-LHR April 19-23 $7,532
On the same dates,YYZ-SYD is $7,670

Stranger

You need to plan more in advance.

Mind you, these fares may come down too. I would not rush. Also, there is always latitude passes. Which I was ready to give up on because P fares often look good; but if the issue of the current thread is here to stay, sure I can change my mind again.

(I am looking at summer already. So far, looks OK.)

SKYEG

Depending on where the conference was, I'd still take a few days off work, fly in Y and not worry about AQM. You're pretty privileged regardless brother!

canadiancow

I can't buy a flight pass for this. At best, I could buy one with my own money and expense the credits. But even that would be significantly more than cheapest fare, which probably would be frowned upon.

I have no interesting in flying Y TATL. And I don't need to, so I won't. But it means AC loses my fare.

yyznomad

You're still a noob here if you suggest that cow fly Y when there is a J cabin.

longtimeflyin

I find it funny that people have often said that AP redemptions on this route is highway robbery because YQ is so darn expensive.

You see, Air Canada fixed this problem by then raising prices to astronomical numbers, thus making an AP redemption look cheap.

SKYEG

Hahaha fair enough! Flying in Y is much better than some of the days I have work, so I'd do it for sure. Especially if it's a solid city in EU.

jc94

Plumber

Stranger

Is it? I had not noticed.

(OK, for us SEs they still do things reasonably right.)

Stranger

Some of us end up paying the difference out of our own pocket... Life is just too short.

CZAMFlyer

No kidding! The old clichés "sometimes half the trip is getting there" or "it's not about the destination, it's about the journey" don't ring true in cases such as this.
Professional development. Set in Europe. For free? Yes please.

Your loss, I guess. Carpé diem, even it it includes not having warm nuts, or having your nuts warmed. The indignities of zone 3 boarding and 9 hours not being fawned upon by faux-interested FAs is a very small price to pay for the upsides of such travel. I just finished four full-xQM TATL crossings in Y, and had very comfortable row-to-myself travel each time, for a fraction of the cost of PY or J. And enjoyed immensely my destinations.

Your fare, perhaps. But it sounds like they'll get somebody else's fare instead, so I can't imagine them feeling too badly.

Amen.