How to fly to Bora Bora from Toronto?
May 1, 2018, 6:43 am
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May 1, 2018, 12:30 pm
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XN is UA blocking award space from partners (and non-status & non-credit-card holding UA members for that matter), and not Aeroplan blocking United space.
May 1, 2018, 4:03 pm
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These flights are bookable via UA, Lifemiles, ANA, etc, but not Aeroplan.
May 1, 2018, 6:39 pm
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Use Aeroplan between YYZ and SFO. From SFO take BF (French Bee) to PPT and back for less than 1k per person.
https://goo.gl/flights/evcyP
https://goo.gl/flights/evcyP
May 1, 2018, 8:54 pm
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That's a different story if true - I agree - very shady!
May 1, 2018, 11:08 pm
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You need to get to Tahiti PPT and from there take a seaplane to Bora Bora on a local airline.
Your options from Toronto to PPT include:
YYZ to Amsterdam AMS and then Amsterdam non stop to PPT on British Airways
YYZ to Los Angeles LAX then LAX to PPT nonstop on Air Tahiti
Your options from Toronto to PPT include:
YYZ to Amsterdam AMS and then Amsterdam non stop to PPT on British Airways
YYZ to Los Angeles LAX then LAX to PPT nonstop on Air Tahiti
May 2, 2018, 5:59 am
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You need to get to Tahiti PPT and from there take a seaplane to Bora Bora on a local airline.
Your options from Toronto to PPT include:
YYZ to Amsterdam AMS and then Amsterdam non stop to PPT on British Airways
YYZ to Los Angeles LAX then LAX to PPT nonstop on Air Tahiti
Your options from Toronto to PPT include:
YYZ to Amsterdam AMS and then Amsterdam non stop to PPT on British Airways
YYZ to Los Angeles LAX then LAX to PPT nonstop on Air Tahiti
May 2, 2018, 7:22 am
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You need to get to Tahiti PPT and from there take a seaplane to Bora Bora on a local airline.
Your options from Toronto to PPT include:
YYZ to Amsterdam AMS and then Amsterdam non stop to PPT on British Airways
YYZ to Los Angeles LAX then LAX to PPT nonstop on Air Tahiti
Your options from Toronto to PPT include:
YYZ to Amsterdam AMS and then Amsterdam non stop to PPT on British Airways
YYZ to Los Angeles LAX then LAX to PPT nonstop on Air Tahiti
Jul 11, 2018, 11:32 pm
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There' s many references to the SFO-PPT UA flights - note that these do not start flying until October 30th 2018. Looking at all options prior to these dates from YVR and the best appears to be AC YVR-HNL and HA HNL-PPT twice a week. An extremely difficult destination to use AE points to prior to October. If anyone has any recommendations as to alternative routings - ie from EU with a connections in YVR this would be most appreciated.
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unit...-2018-a-3.html
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unit...-2018-a-3.html
Jul 12, 2018, 12:18 am
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There' s many references to the SFO-PPT UA flights - note that these do not start flying until October 30th 2018. Looking at all options prior to these dates from YVR and the best appears to be AC YVR-HNL and HA HNL-PPT twice a week. An extremely difficult destination to use AE points to prior to October. If anyone has any recommendations as to alternative routings - ie from EU with a connections in YVR this would be most appreciated.
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unit...-2018-a-3.html
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unit...-2018-a-3.html
Especially in Y, finding award availability on NZ LAX-RAR isn't impossible. J availability tends to be extremely limited IME, though it would be by far the most comfortable way to get there (RAR-PPT is a < 2h flight). You could also consider flying to RAR on NZ via SYD or AKL.
Except for the weekly HA HNL-PPT flight, award availability from NA to PPT on TN and AF is literally non-existent.
Jul 12, 2018, 6:33 am
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Are you hoping to fly Y or J?
Especially in Y, finding award availability on NZ LAX-RAR isn't impossible. J availability tends to be extremely limited IME, though it would be by far the most comfortable way to get there (RAR-PPT is a < 2h flight). You could also consider flying to RAR on NZ via SYD or AKL.
Except for the weekly HA HNL-PPT flight, award availability from NA to PPT on TN and AF is literally non-existent.
Especially in Y, finding award availability on NZ LAX-RAR isn't impossible. J availability tends to be extremely limited IME, though it would be by far the most comfortable way to get there (RAR-PPT is a < 2h flight). You could also consider flying to RAR on NZ via SYD or AKL.
Except for the weekly HA HNL-PPT flight, award availability from NA to PPT on TN and AF is literally non-existent.
Jul 12, 2018, 6:03 pm
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Fly YYZ-YVR and then hop on the regular French A340 that flies nonstop YVR-PPT a few times per month. It won't cost you any miles, but you may have to sign up for the French armed services...
Chances of a lie-flat seat, I'm afraid, are nil.
Chances of a lie-flat seat, I'm afraid, are nil.
Jul 12, 2018, 10:33 pm
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I believe these are mostly UA flights - unfortunately our schedule is to arrive around Oct 5/6 and depart Oct 19/20. Until UA starts flying on the 30th, not really seeing much in the was of reward tickets. Looking at J or Y depending on the routing (ie - won't be taking Y to AKL and back to PPT).