15K short to MVPG - Mileage run suggestions?
Jul 1, 2016, 8:28 pm
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Y'know, it was only $50 more for K but the seatmap in F is completely empty (one seat gone) and not a soul in rows 6 or 17. So I figured my chances were pretty good for a comp u/g. Now you have me rethinking. Should I refare and burn a cert?
And strangely, even the shorty segments are mainline. If I use a cert, does it cover all the segments? I am used to Q400's so not sure how upgrading multiple segments work.
ANC shows up as an allowable connection when I search. Until today I thought who in their right mind would fly to ANC on the way to HNL? Guess that pretty much confirms that I am not in my right mind.
And strangely, even the shorty segments are mainline. If I use a cert, does it cover all the segments? I am used to Q400's so not sure how upgrading multiple segments work.
ANC shows up as an allowable connection when I search. Until today I thought who in their right mind would fly to ANC on the way to HNL? Guess that pretty much confirms that I am not in my right mind.
Jul 1, 2016, 9:04 pm
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If there is U space on all your flights, I would say it's worth a cert...since your ANC flight is via PDX and not SEA (nonstop), you're comp upgrade chances are much better, but still, as long as you don't have any stopovers longer than 4 hours, one upgrade cert will cover this entire trip which seems like an amazing deal to me! As for ANC being allowable as a connection point, I guess I need to clarify what I mean by "allowable"....I mean it that it counts as trip that doesn't break the fare (in order words, "create" a fare by charging you the PDX-ANC fare added to a ANC-HNL fare). I've seen ANC show up as a connection point when searching for HNL flights, but it's obvious that the reservation system is simply charging you for two separate trips and combining them into one price which isn't really what I consider a valid connection point. AS does this for the SAN-BOS flights....if you go PDX-SAN-BOS, you're going to pay for the PDX-SAN fare added to the SAN-BOS fare....annoying from a MR perspective. Thankfully, connections in SEA don't usually cost much more.
Jul 1, 2016, 9:43 pm
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