UK resident seeking advice on US flights, please
 

Hi folks

As a relative newbie and a UK resident, I have the following itinerary planned in coach :

9/11 - AA 1235 : YYZ-ORD
AA 2398 : ORD-STL

9/17 - AA 1459 : STL-SEA

9/21 - AA 380 : SEA-DFW

10/1 - AA 488 : DFW - YYZ

1. the dates are pretty much set and. barring life & death issues, will not change.

2. EQM/EQS is immaterial; RDM is good.

3. This is vacation, so I'd like as much time on the ground, not in the air.

4. I will pay by non-US credit card.

5. My transat carrier is AC

6. My best price of all UK sites shows on expedia.co.uk as £480.20

My question is - are there any US-sources I can check for better price, where I can pay by non-US card.

Thanks for any assistance.

Did you check AA.com?

Thank you.

Yes I did - they came in at £503.00 - slightly higher than expedia.co.uk

You'd be eligible to buy a Star Alliance North American Airpass where you can buy coupons to use for your flights. Not sure if it would work out more/less than the total price you found on Expedia or not, but it's worth a shot.

Cheers.

Thank you.

The * Alliance schedules on UA/AC made it a 7 segment journey, which took it way out past £480.

Did you try same itinerary on expedia.ca?

try opodo.co.uk

you will have to do yyz-stl-sea-dfw and then a one way dfw-yyz, but i got it under £400. *A for for first three flights, or combination of AC and AA with AA for the return to yyz.

I can get it down to 397GBP by doing the following and with the exception of the first 2 segs, you get *A miles on the rest.

1. $YX 2294 T 11SEP SU YYZ MKE 250P 325P FRJ S 0E
YX 2294 /SKYWAY AIRLINES D/B/A MIDWEST CONNECT
2. $YX 1493 T 11SEP SU MKE STL 515P 652P BE1 0E
YX 1493 /SKYWAY AIRLINES D/B/A MIDWEST CONNECT
3. #UA 4173 T 17SEP SA STL CLT 120P 410P CRJ 0E@
UA 4173 US AIRWAYS EXPRESS-MESA AIRLINES
4. #UA 1750 T 17SEP SA CLT SEA 540P 809P 321 F 0E@
UA 1750 US AIRWAYS
5. #UA 1187 S 21SEP WE SEA SFO 320P 523P 733 0E@
6. #UA 456 S 21SEP WE SFO DFW 647P 1212A#1 319 G 0E@
7. #UA 8750 V 01OCT SA DFW YYZ 1140A 343P CR7 F 0E@
UA 8750 AC /AIR CANADA JAZZ
BASE FARE- 543.00 TAX- 154.82 TOTAL- 697.82 USD

* NO RFND/NONREF/CHG100PLUSFAREDIF/
* PRICING RULES VALIDATING CARRIER DEFAULT YX
* SURCHARGE APPLIED *
** 11SEP DEPARTURE DATE/ 16JUL IS LAST DATE TO TICKET
1USD/0.821900CAD

BF CAD TX USD TX USD TX USD EV USD TOTAL USD
XT TAX XY TAX US TAX
001- 661.02 107.09 7.00 40.73 543.00 697.82
TA21SPLN*TE14OA2N*SE211NNX*VPA21CNX
661.02 107.09 7.00 40.73 543.00 697.82

There is an afternoon direct flight YYZ-STL with AC which would drop it down to 6 segments.

Did you try using the 15% off discount code on AA.com for flights leaving the UK?

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=445151

Did you ever look at buying an AC Open Jaw Ticket ex UK that allowed Stopovers in The Gateway city YYZ in each direction.

i.e. LHR/YYZ/STL - Open - DFW/YYZ/LHR Then you would have only needed the STL-SEA-DFW sectors locally around $280 - GBP165

9/11 YYZ-MSP NW607
9/11 MSP-STL NW607
9/17 STL-DEN F9 283
9/17 DEN-SEA F9 8117
9/21 STL-DEN F9 136
9/21 DEN-DFW F9 136
10/1 DFW-MEM NW830
10/1 MEM-YYZ NW2838

£381 all-in

EDIT: costed on AA.com:

9/11 AA439 YYZ-ORD 1022/1108 M80
9/11 AA1004 ORD-STL 1228/1335 M80
9/17 AA1530 STL-DFW 1203/1352 M80
9/17 AA1587 DFW-SEA 1434/1639 M83
9/21 AA1046 SEA-DFW 1136/1718 757
10/1 AA1252 DFW-YYZ 1059/1451 738

£442.40 all-in