I flew this yesterday. I am currently in MAD. It was AWESOME. 7 PAX in J in total... Very nice. Will do this again.

Thanks for sharing the MAD-FRA fare Chokkoubin. I always wanted to try this flight.

F to the west coast ex EU
 

Are there any good F fares out to West Coast US from any EU at the moment?

Many thanks

I recall in the last few pages there was mention of decent fares to SEA, would be worth scrolling back to have a look.

Not sure. May be better in the Premium Fares link.

What countries/cities have you eliminated so far?

You may have been referring to this deal https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/prem...0-f-class.html

Some better prices available on OTP-PHX again this afternoon, just booked a 760TP routing for £1270 in July.

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What was the routing? Was this booked on BA or AA?

Can get the OTP LHR JFK PHX and back working on Google Flights in July £1213 720 TPs

https://www.google.co.uk/flights#flt...7*2.GBP.119357

I am 205 TPs away from retaining gold, so looking to do a TP run this month. Have found LHR-HEL-TAL-HEL-LHR leaving Friday 15th Feb @ 6.15pm, sleeping in Tallin for a few hours and then returning home@ 6.00am on Saturday 16th. Cost is £357 after using Avios to reduce the price. My wife thinks i am mad!

But this gets me 200 pts and therefore 5 away from the 1500 needed.

ITA matrix Fare rules state that the ticket allows for unlimited stopovers, but each time i try to put in another hop, TAL-HEL-MAN-LHR for example, the price goes up massively. I have even considered adding in TAL-HEL-ARN-HEL-LHR but ITA Matrix doesnt like it.

Anybody able to offer any assistance please? to get me the 5 needed??

Thanks all

I don't know enough to assist with the specific issue you're facing, but I suspect that the easiest would probably be to depart from somewhere other than LHR, such as MAN or LBA. The former seems to be ~ £675 in business all the way, though I suspect that if you rang up to book, you might be able to get the domestic legs in economy to save some money and take you to 210TP rather than 280.

Assuming you're based near LHR, for the weekend you mention the option below would let you take the train up during the day, return MAN-LHR that night, then get the A350 the next morning for your LHR-HEL leg. I've set it to leave a bit later on the Sunday so you have the morning in TLL - it's a nice city to wander around so you might as well! You still get back to LHR by 10pm - the earlier departure (and arrival in LHR) is the same price, as is leaving at 14:45 from TLL to give you a bit more time.

Edit: I assume you can reduce this using Avios, if you were so inclined, and it should be bookable via the multi-city tool. As an aside - I really miss the cheap TLL fare!
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Squawk - Thats really helpful. Thanks for the quick response and guidance.