JMS87

I'm getting £2,173 for all the date combinations I tried. I'm guessing I've either done something wrong, or have missed the boat!?

Strawb

Departure from JER 26/12 arriving back LHR 31/12. A lot of A class availability has disappeared since I checked fares over the weekend. Indeed, I left it quite late by booking on Monday rather than the day before. I wanted the 2pm flight from LAX-HNL which was available when I checked on Sunday. I made my booking the next day and had to settle for the 4.25pm flight instead.

Jamier45

Newcastle (NCL) to Honolulu (HNL) - Sat, Dec 27
British Airways Newcastle (NCL) to London (LHR) - Sat, Dec 27
British Airways 1327 Dep: 11:45AM Arr: 1:05PM 1h 20m Airbus A320 Business (J)

Layover in LHR 4h 0m

American Airlines Inc. London (LHR) to New York (JFK) - Sat, Dec 27
American Airlines Inc. 107 Dep: 5:05PM Arr: 8:20PM 8h 15m Boeing 777 Business (I)

Layover in JFK 10h 10m

US Airways New York (JFK) to Phoenix (PHX) - Sun, Dec 28
US Airways 433 Dep: 6:30AM Arr: 10:18AM 5h 48m Airbus A320 First (A)

Layover in PHX 1h 27m

American Airlines Inc. Phoenix (PHX) to Honolulu (HNL) - Sun, Dec 28
American Airlines Inc. 692 Dep: 11:45AM Arr: 3:32PM 6h 47m Boeing 757 First (A)

OPERATED BY US AIRWAYS

Honolulu (HNL) to Newcastle (NCL) - Mon, Dec 29
American Airlines Inc. Honolulu (HNL) to Phoenix (PHX) - Mon, Dec 29
American Airlines Inc. 675 Dep: 11:50PM Arr: 8:40AM 5h 50m Boeing 757 First (A)

OPERATED BY US AIRWAYS Layover in PHX Tue, Dec 30 1h 18m

US Airways Phoenix (PHX) to New York (JFK) - Tue, Dec 30
US Airways 425 Dep: 9:58AM Arr: 4:50PM 4h 52m Airbus A321 First (A)

Layover in JFK 4h 10m

American Airlines Inc. New York (JFK) to London (LHR) - Tue, Dec 30
American Airlines Inc. 6212 Dep: 9:00PM Arr: 8:45AM 6h 45m Boeing 747 Business (I)

OPERATED BY BRITISH AIRWAYS Layover in LHR Wed, Dec 31 1h 5m

Iberia London (LHR) to Newcastle (NCL) - Wed, Dec 31
Iberia 4797 Dep: 9:50AM Arr: 11:00AM 1h 10m Airbus A320 Business (I)
OPERATED BY BRITISH AIRWAYS
Cost per passenger (including taxes & fees) £853.01
Total cost for 1 passenger £853.01

JMS87

Am I entering this incorrectly?



@Jamier45... I'm doing something wrong as I'm not getting that price!

Jamier45

Click round trip and enter like this:

dutch_122

JMS87

Sent me pm with BAEC I look at it.

And the preferred routing.

And be flexible flights are very full

T8191

I hope there isn't going to be an over-booking crisis coming!!

Priority for those who booked last Friday, please

Calchas

LIH on your way back is forcing you onto another fare.

My search would look like this (copy+paste) the bold bits

From:
JER, NCL, MAN :: F LON F JFK,BOS,MIA US,AA PHX,LAX US,AA / alliance oneworld; f ..I5UKJB
To:
HNL, OGG, LIH, KOA :: US,AA PHX,LAX US,AA JFK,BOS,MIA F LON F / alliance oneworld; f ..I5UKJB

Difference is: I have allowed the Matrix to be very flexible in finding routes that all have the same TP value (although you need to ignore results with JFK-LAX if you want the maximum TPs), however I have told the Matrix only to look with fares on the I5UKJB basis, so it doesn't waste time trying to find other fares that will be much more expensive. Also I require US/AA flight numbers within the US.

You can use the calendar search (start 21st Dec) or look on individual days.

• Do not chose the MIA-PHX flight, it is less than 2000 miles.
• JFK-LAX is comfortable and widely available but only gets 140 TPs. Your choice.
• Make sure you travel into the same Hawaiian airport as you leave!
• Consider carefully whether you really want to start and finish in JER
• You can get more availability by changing JFK to NYC but watch out for that ugly cross-city change
• Be especially careful that sectors don't book into Y instead of F (due to insufficient availability). There is very scant availability between Hawaii and the West Coast right now.
• The Matrix may miss some options and it may give results that are no longer available.

You could change JFK,BOS,MIA to (e.g.) WAS to go via Washington DC.

JMS87

Thanks all for your help! I will have a more detailed look, now I know how, when I get back this evening.

I think there might be a fair few people from here in HNL over the holiday period!

Calchas

Some US sectors are already overbooked in F. I would get your seat reservations sorted pronto.

T8191

Seats all selected days ago, Sir, on BA and AA sectors ^

No point in being Silver if you don't select at the time of booking

hawklx

You must have been working very hard

dutch_122

indeed 3 more to go.

corporate-wage-slave

Indeed LAX T4 is very small, so if the flight arrives on time then it will take just a few minutes to get to the gate. However you better look up alternative flights if this is purely TP related. There is ongoing construction work around T4 and that is slowing things up. In normal situations you could arrive 15 minutes early into LAX, but I've been an hour late into LAX almost entirely due to headwind. If you do get irrop'd into economy on a later service this may not be a good outcome!

Calum

Don't know if you found anything but I thought I'd let you know about this, I can't do a 4 day layover and the return flight is too awkward for me so I won't be getting this fare:'(