magic111

woohoo. Ok I am gonna gloat.

I have not booked any new trips since before December as I am going through a 6 month medical treatment that makes any travel a bit tiring. That is going to change. Might as well be tired someplace else as at home.

The low fares and bonuses have been drawing me like a siren. Can't believe that yesterday I even went to the TSA site to see what the restrictions were for carrying medications that had to be kept cold. Turns out that one need only declare them, have them visually inspected, and the blue ice is OK.


This mod is smiling today. ^^

ByeByeDelta

So could one pay a $150 change fee just to re-ticket a reservation with the same dates/times? I've got one reservation worth 7,298 EQM. $150 would be 2 cents per mile to double that...

zman

I think the 3X miles BOS-LAX/SFO/SAN do not count toward status.
They are Bonus miles not EQM/EQP miles.

vrbaba

But that is exactly what he said.

vrbaba

Well, the T&Cs are not clear about that. So, its YMMV and I have a feeling that it will be YMMV even after talking to multiple CSRs as you wont know how the system is designed to handle it. Best would be to eat that fee and receive the rest as vouchers to be applied to future reservation(s). And go ahead an make a new reservation. You avoid any ambiguity that way.

FWAAA

GUWonder did not say the triple miles were eqms. Only that the attractive combo of double eqms and triple rdms would make it easier for Plats and EXPs to qualify/requalify.

jpzeller

I'm guessing this means the rest of us shouldn't, either.

wschild

That's what I'm waiting for! They did about a week later last year, and right before a TATL I had. (And did not need to re-issue tickets). I've got Asia trip starting March 26th!

brp

This is assuming that one can find the same (or similar) fare. We have SJC-BOS, SFO-JFK, SJC-MSY and SJC-DCA all booked within that period. It works out to about 20K miles each. Assuming we could find the same fares (and were OK possibly reducing upgrade priority) it would cost $600 each to change all of these. That works out to .03/EQM. That's not too bad, but we would be spending $1200 to take no actual trips and visit no actual places. As we only need 30K more EQM for the rest of the year, and would actually get to visit places, it may not be worth it. Also, since they don't seem to have the bonuses for exceeding the mileage by certain limits like they did with AADER, no reason to go "above and beyond."

Have to further consider this tomorrow. Maybe reprice the same itins and see if it's somewhat cheaper...that will eat some of the $150 change fee.

Cheers.

lili

And for some there's also the 10%, 20%, 30% discount on future flight for flying 1,2 or 3 RTs before May 15.

So 3 RT between BOS-California could be more or less 60,000 RDM, 30,000 EQM, and $300 discount on a $1,000 ticket. Assuming all the applicable bonuses could be used on each flight.

mach92

I did not participate in last years promotion at all. So far this year, I have only flown 13K sad I know! So this is great news

Spiff

Fare difference is likely applicable.

chanp

I called, we have to wait until tomm to do it online.

brp

As already mentioned here: Frankie Say Relax. You have almost 3 months to register and registration date makes absolutely no difference in the benefits. Is there some competition for first to register?

Of course, once it's open, this thread will be hopelessly clogged with "I registered." "Me, too." "Hmmm...didn't work for me." "What message did you get." "Oh, it works now." Oy!

Cheers.

mikeef

Um, you do realize this is FT, right? Where speculation runs high and the word "relax" simply isn't in the dictionary. OCD, on the other hand, is rampant.

On a more serious note, though, I suggest that we use this thread as the inevitable "help me plan a mileage run to maximize EQM" thread.

Mike