Nov 22, 2012, 4:10 am
Last edit by: jackal
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The Alaska Airlines Bored Room
Jun 27, 2019, 8:41 am
#6737
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Anchorage, AK
Programs: Lifetime AS 1MM & MVPG, AS MVPG100K, AA, DL, HH-G
Posts: 8,259
Already posted in the correct thread.
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/alas...l#post31243940
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/alas...l#post31243940
Jun 27, 2019, 11:10 am
#6738
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Mountain Time Zone
Programs: AS Million Miler/Marriott Lifetime Titanium/ IGH Ambassador
Posts: 5,991
Already posted in the correct thread.
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/alas...l#post31243940
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/alas...l#post31243940
Jun 27, 2019, 4:35 pm
#6740
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Mountain Time Zone
Programs: AS Million Miler/Marriott Lifetime Titanium/ IGH Ambassador
Posts: 5,991
Jun 27, 2019, 4:41 pm
#6741
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Anchorage, AK
Programs: Lifetime AS 1MM & MVPG, AS MVPG100K, AA, DL, HH-G
Posts: 8,259
Just sayin.....
Jun 28, 2019, 7:10 am
#6742
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Mountain Time Zone
Programs: AS Million Miler/Marriott Lifetime Titanium/ IGH Ambassador
Posts: 5,991
your sick my friend !!!! as for me the jury is out on the Max. I think they need to stop production turn them into freighters and design a replacement at this point in time AB is eating their lunch and will for many years.
Jun 28, 2019, 10:25 am
#6743
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: Pacific Wonderland
Programs: ʙᴏɴᴠo̱ʏ Au, IHG Au, HH Dia, Nexus, Pilot FlyingJ Preferred
Posts: 5,336
In service date would be ~2024 (unless the dates slip yet again). That's one or possibly two more cycles of maintenance problems the Q seems to go through every couple of years, aging frames... like I said totally baseless speculation.
Jun 28, 2019, 11:06 am
#6744
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Mountain Time Zone
Programs: AS Million Miler/Marriott Lifetime Titanium/ IGH Ambassador
Posts: 5,991
It maybe my luck but I am seeing that bad cycle of maintenance issues with the Q in the past six month, we all have seen that picture show before. Having said that there is the cost factor of replacing the Q with all jets. I am simply happy to have most of my flying in and out of Boise 175 option especially to SAN.
Jun 28, 2019, 2:54 pm
#6746
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Mountain Time Zone
Programs: AS Million Miler/Marriott Lifetime Titanium/ IGH Ambassador
Posts: 5,991
Jul 30, 2019, 11:01 am
#6748
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: Pacific Wonderland
Programs: ʙᴏɴᴠo̱ʏ Au, IHG Au, HH Dia, Nexus, Pilot FlyingJ Preferred
Posts: 5,336
(moving to the Bored Room since this is getting a little off of the flame free question thread)
Cheaper than I would have thought and the RDM would be enough for ~15 RT First Class trips on CX or JL. For ~$30K, you could go zero to 2MM inside of a year. I see a Patreon opportunity.
ETA: I see the cost calculations were off by a factor of 10. Just need to increase the Patreon goal then.
This made me laugh, so I did some playing around. You could take 4 round trips per day for 125 days and get to 1000 trips, with a fare of about $122 (priced Sept 1 RT main cabin in case a cancellation needs to happen) So, for a mere $15,250 I could get my second MM and be 75k for life. I wonder if the bank would think this is worth a loan?
ETA: I see the cost calculations were off by a factor of 10. Just need to increase the Patreon goal then.
Last edited by rustykettel; Jul 30, 2019 at 1:46 pm