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Apr 8, 2021, 12:44 pm
#16
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Apr 8, 2021, 12:55 pm
#17
Join Date: Jan 2019
Location: SAN, BOS
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Apr 8, 2021, 1:08 pm
#18
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Sorry, I didn't clarify earlier that I am LAX based. So 229 earns 600ish EQD one way... or 2.62 EQDs per dollar.
SEA-LAX or vice versa is like, 89 for 285, or 3.2 EQDs per dollar.
Someone tell me if I am doing or calculating something wrong...
SEA-LAX or vice versa is like, 89 for 285, or 3.2 EQDs per dollar.
Someone tell me if I am doing or calculating something wrong...
Apr 8, 2021, 1:16 pm
#19
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Chicago would be 516 EQD or so for 179, at 2.88 per dollar, or ATL is 654 EQD for 229 so 2.85. Yea, I think LAX is the best deal. Even did these Calcs on NYC or FLL (Miami)
Apr 8, 2021, 1:21 pm
#20
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Oooh, Burbank is only $10 more. Going to see if I can find a couple of Saturdays where I can at least get 4 one ways in a day, San Diego is also 99 bucks. As long as I end up back in the Los Angeles area at the end of each trip.
So LAX-SEA earns 3.21 per dollar to be exact, and SAN-SEA earns 3.18 per dollar to be exact, with Burbank being a close third.
Let's do this!
So LAX-SEA earns 3.21 per dollar to be exact, and SAN-SEA earns 3.18 per dollar to be exact, with Burbank being a close third.
Let's do this!
Apr 8, 2021, 1:48 pm
#21
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Realize I am having a conversation with myself here, noticed a few things:
-Would get to use the lounge
-SoCal route could be completed faster than cross country, in addition to earning more per dollar
-First class has some same day standby type benefits
Otherwise booking 4 flights same day seems to be impossible on Saturdays at the earning rate, most flights at the good price are either early morning or late evening... Best I can get is 3 and then fly home Sunday for $50 more, unless someone has even better creative routing. Or how is the lounge Wifi? I could fly up Tues or Weds morning, work from the lounge from 9-6 pm, and then fly home. Talk about an office share!
Anyone know if I flew the boyfriend in economy (he's dirt poor and drains my bank account already and PREFERS the back of the plane, I swear to god) for one of these trips if he could join me in the lounge?
-Would get to use the lounge
-SoCal route could be completed faster than cross country, in addition to earning more per dollar
-First class has some same day standby type benefits
Otherwise booking 4 flights same day seems to be impossible on Saturdays at the earning rate, most flights at the good price are either early morning or late evening... Best I can get is 3 and then fly home Sunday for $50 more, unless someone has even better creative routing. Or how is the lounge Wifi? I could fly up Tues or Weds morning, work from the lounge from 9-6 pm, and then fly home. Talk about an office share!
Anyone know if I flew the boyfriend in economy (he's dirt poor and drains my bank account already and PREFERS the back of the plane, I swear to god) for one of these trips if he could join me in the lounge?
Apr 8, 2021, 3:05 pm
#22
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Realize I am having a conversation with myself here, noticed a few things:
-Would get to use the lounge
-SoCal route could be completed faster than cross country, in addition to earning more per dollar
-First class has some same day standby type benefits
Otherwise booking 4 flights same day seems to be impossible on Saturdays at the earning rate, most flights at the good price are either early morning or late evening... Best I can get is 3 and then fly home Sunday for $50 more, unless someone has even better creative routing. Or how is the lounge Wifi? I could fly up Tues or Weds morning, work from the lounge from 9-6 pm, and then fly home. Talk about an office share!
Anyone know if I flew the boyfriend in economy (he's dirt poor and drains my bank account already and PREFERS the back of the plane, I swear to god) for one of these trips if he could join me in the lounge?
-Would get to use the lounge
-SoCal route could be completed faster than cross country, in addition to earning more per dollar
-First class has some same day standby type benefits
Otherwise booking 4 flights same day seems to be impossible on Saturdays at the earning rate, most flights at the good price are either early morning or late evening... Best I can get is 3 and then fly home Sunday for $50 more, unless someone has even better creative routing. Or how is the lounge Wifi? I could fly up Tues or Weds morning, work from the lounge from 9-6 pm, and then fly home. Talk about an office share!
Anyone know if I flew the boyfriend in economy (he's dirt poor and drains my bank account already and PREFERS the back of the plane, I swear to god) for one of these trips if he could join me in the lounge?
Apr 8, 2021, 3:09 pm
#23
Join Date: Jan 2019
Location: SAN, BOS
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Realize I am having a conversation with myself here, noticed a few things:
-Would get to use the lounge
-SoCal route could be completed faster than cross country, in addition to earning more per dollar
-First class has some same day standby type benefits
Otherwise booking 4 flights same day seems to be impossible on Saturdays at the earning rate, most flights at the good price are either early morning or late evening... Best I can get is 3 and then fly home Sunday for $50 more, unless someone has even better creative routing. Or how is the lounge Wifi? I could fly up Tues or Weds morning, work from the lounge from 9-6 pm, and then fly home. Talk about an office share!
Anyone know if I flew the boyfriend in economy (he's dirt poor and drains my bank account already and PREFERS the back of the plane, I swear to god) for one of these trips if he could join me in the lounge?
-Would get to use the lounge
-SoCal route could be completed faster than cross country, in addition to earning more per dollar
-First class has some same day standby type benefits
Otherwise booking 4 flights same day seems to be impossible on Saturdays at the earning rate, most flights at the good price are either early morning or late evening... Best I can get is 3 and then fly home Sunday for $50 more, unless someone has even better creative routing. Or how is the lounge Wifi? I could fly up Tues or Weds morning, work from the lounge from 9-6 pm, and then fly home. Talk about an office share!
Anyone know if I flew the boyfriend in economy (he's dirt poor and drains my bank account already and PREFERS the back of the plane, I swear to god) for one of these trips if he could join me in the lounge?
I’m assuming you’re gonna bring him along in X fares? Might get up to MVPG (or even 75k) AS that was based on how many trips you both take.
Apr 8, 2021, 3:37 pm
#24
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Wouldn't purchasing F one-way grant access in SEA upon arrival with an outbound flight? I can't say with certainty if the outbound is a return but I know the policy for a connection grants access on a connection when the incoming is paid F regardless of the class on the outbound. I have flown LAX-SEA in paid F connecting to SEA-FLL on a Main fare upgraded to U and accessed the SEA AL on the strength of the paid LAX-SEA.
James
James
Apr 8, 2021, 3:39 pm
#25
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Wouldn't purchasing F one-way grant access in SEA upon arrival with an outbound flight? I can't say with certainty if the outbound is a return but I know the policy for a connection grants access on a connection when the incoming is paid F regardless of the class on the outbound. I have flown LAX-SEA in paid F connecting to SEA-FLL on a Main fare upgraded to U and accessed the SEA AL on the strength of the paid LAX-SEA.
James
James
The trouble there, is the boyfriend might ruin his “ignorance is bliss” attitude about sitting in the back of the flying bus
Apr 8, 2021, 3:44 pm
#26
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James
Apr 8, 2021, 3:44 pm
#27
Join Date: Jan 2021
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y' all in SEA are spoiled....SFO fares have been sky high the past month.....pandemic exodus out of the Bay Area is ramping up prices to anything that is OPEN.......
92 dollars for cross country fares?!?!? we are back to 200+ O/W now ex SFO...
92 dollars for cross country fares?!?!? we are back to 200+ O/W now ex SFO...
Apr 8, 2021, 3:55 pm
#29
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back-to-back SEA-LAX-SEA RTs at $178 each in F ... longish day, but not terrible at all; might even be able to finesse-SDC one leg into a PDX connection
Apr 8, 2021, 4:16 pm
#30
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With no free booze in premium economy, or even on a 1st Class Upgrade to Vegas we recently had, he doesn't see the difference between being at the back. He didn't fly much before me so he doesn't know the value in getting your carry on into the overhead bin and all the extra leg room... let alone there's usually less crying babies and crappy acting people at the front, keyword being USUALLY.
Can you elaborate? I am LAX based, but willing to route around if it means same day travel or overnight in a hotel one day only... I am seeing $89-99 routes per leg, but are you suggesting 178 gets 3 legs total?