2 zone award: CBS-PDX-SAC-BRL
#1
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2 zone award: CBS-PDX-SAC-BRL
agent is telling me this will cost me 2 2-zone awards. I understand this is not a "one zone", but to make this 2 2-zone award costing 40,000 points?
should I call back? or is this the norm these days and there is no hope?
thanks
should I call back? or is this the norm these days and there is no hope?
thanks
#5
Join Date: Aug 2008
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Nope. According to the rules, you can't do a trip that starts in the central zone, goes to the western zone, and then returns to the central zone as one redemption.
If I were the OP, I'd try to book CBS-PDX-SAC-DEN as a two-zone award, then buy a ticket DEN-BRL. Alternately, I'd catch a ride to Milwaukee, and do the trip to Iowa in one day.
Circle trips are not permitted using a single redemption. A circle trip is a travel itinerary comprised of a series of segments that exit, and later re-enter, the same zone.
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Well, it depends on what you call "good scenery." I'm a high plains drifter, and appreciate not having trees and mountains get in the way of my view.
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1) The OP was planning to travel on the California Zephyr, not the Southwest Chief. Albuquerque doesn't enter into it.
2) In any case, amtrak.com doesn't give CBS-ABQ as a legal trip, so your itinerary won't work, even if it was the one the OP wanted, which it wasn't.
3) Further, the Southwest Chief doesn't stop in Burlington, so ABQ-BRL isn't a good suggestion.
4) Finally, you can't book CBS-PDX-SAC-BRL as a three-zone trip. If that isn't what you meant by "3 zone possible," it's your own fault that I misunderstood you. Use more words, and even try capitalization and punctuation.
2) In any case, amtrak.com doesn't give CBS-ABQ as a legal trip, so your itinerary won't work, even if it was the one the OP wanted, which it wasn't.
3) Further, the Southwest Chief doesn't stop in Burlington, so ABQ-BRL isn't a good suggestion.
4) Finally, you can't book CBS-PDX-SAC-BRL as a three-zone trip. If that isn't what you meant by "3 zone possible," it's your own fault that I misunderstood you. Use more words, and even try capitalization and punctuation.
#12
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1) The OP was planning to travel on the California Zephyr, not the Southwest Chief. Albuquerque doesn't enter into it.
2) In any case, amtrak.com doesn't give CBS-ABQ as a legal trip, so your itinerary won't work, even if it was the one the OP wanted, which it wasn't.
3) Further, the Southwest Chief doesn't stop in Burlington, so ABQ-BRL isn't a good suggestion.
4) Finally, you can't book CBS-PDX-SAC-BRL as a three-zone trip. If that isn't what you meant by "3 zone possible," it's your own fault that I misunderstood you. Use more words, and even try capitalization and punctuation.
2) In any case, amtrak.com doesn't give CBS-ABQ as a legal trip, so your itinerary won't work, even if it was the one the OP wanted, which it wasn't.
3) Further, the Southwest Chief doesn't stop in Burlington, so ABQ-BRL isn't a good suggestion.
4) Finally, you can't book CBS-PDX-SAC-BRL as a three-zone trip. If that isn't what you meant by "3 zone possible," it's your own fault that I misunderstood you. Use more words, and even try capitalization and punctuation.
I believe it's DEN, not ABQ. Then I think everything makes more sense.
#13
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1) The OP was planning to travel on the California Zephyr, not the Southwest Chief. Albuquerque doesn't enter into it.
2) In any case, amtrak.com doesn't give CBS-ABQ as a legal trip, so your itinerary won't work, even if it was the one the OP wanted, which it wasn't.
3) Further, the Southwest Chief doesn't stop in Burlington, so ABQ-BRL isn't a good suggestion.
4) Finally, you can't book CBS-PDX-SAC-BRL as a three-zone trip. If that isn't what you meant by "3 zone possible," it's your own fault that I misunderstood you. Use more words, and even try capitalization and punctuation.
2) In any case, amtrak.com doesn't give CBS-ABQ as a legal trip, so your itinerary won't work, even if it was the one the OP wanted, which it wasn't.
3) Further, the Southwest Chief doesn't stop in Burlington, so ABQ-BRL isn't a good suggestion.
4) Finally, you can't book CBS-PDX-SAC-BRL as a three-zone trip. If that isn't what you meant by "3 zone possible," it's your own fault that I misunderstood you. Use more words, and even try capitalization and punctuation.
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Last edited by darben; Oct 21, 2013 at 9:46 am