SIN Run Do 2005
Jun 14, 2004 | 10:11 pm
#108
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We'll be there (this time I promise)
I am off to SIN tonight actually, anyhow, having been no shows last year, we will be there in 2005 ! Now that my job has changed, the end of financial year deadlines will no longer keep me desk bound in HKG. 
Jun 15, 2004 | 12:01 am
#109
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Originally Posted by GK
I am off to SIN tonight actually, anyhow, having been no shows last year, we will be there in 2005 ! Now that my job has changed, the end of financial year deadlines will no longer keep me desk bound in HKG.
So, January in SIN, February in PVG, New York Bar (PHT) in March maybe?
I shall get myself busy with updating the website very shorytly.
Welcome aboard gentlemen.
Mike
Jun 15, 2004 | 12:34 am
#110
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well, upgrades & cheap fares willing i'm there. i'm saving 2 swu's for this assuming it will work out.
while i hate the end of jan as expiration date i realize it's cuz unlike when it was paper & it took 2 months to get to us, this time they're actually pretty good about depositing them electronically so same amount of time in terms of use.
i do need hilton or marriott to drop their rates though - right now both showing high.
while i hate the end of jan as expiration date i realize it's cuz unlike when it was paper & it took 2 months to get to us, this time they're actually pretty good about depositing them electronically so same amount of time in terms of use.
i do need hilton or marriott to drop their rates though - right now both showing high.
Jun 16, 2004 | 2:23 pm
#111
Join Date: Jan 2001
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Originally Posted by mjm
Anybody else?
...count me in as a definite definite (double wording intended). Never having attended an FT gathering, I'm looking forward to it. If fares come down, great. If not, I'll still be there.
Jun 26, 2004 | 2:35 pm
#112
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I've been checking flights on UA RNO-SFO-SIN perhaps weekly recently. Today I notice the price has fallen from ~$1100 to $885.70 (Fare=V). This is for Jan. 13-17, which is not a 6 day stay. SFO-SIN & LAX-SIN are $721.70. I wonder if this is as good as it gets, or whether a further price decrease might be expected by waiting until the fall?
Jun 26, 2004 | 3:17 pm
#113
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Well spotted. I'm glad you posted, as I haven't even been doing fare checks.
It's $885 out of SAN and CLD as well. I'd buy in the $700 range and get in the queue for upgrades. But a fare close to $900 bites. I'm going to keep waiting to see if the UA employees get Friends and Family certs in the fall. 15% off would certainly made any fare appealing.
Just for kicks, I checked an outbound to SIN in January, and a return from Shanghai in February. The fare popped to $1400 - so much for my hope that I could achieve a lower fare by nesting SAN-SIN/PVG-SAN and SIN-SAN/SAN-PVG.
It's $885 out of SAN and CLD as well. I'd buy in the $700 range and get in the queue for upgrades. But a fare close to $900 bites. I'm going to keep waiting to see if the UA employees get Friends and Family certs in the fall. 15% off would certainly made any fare appealing.
Just for kicks, I checked an outbound to SIN in January, and a return from Shanghai in February. The fare popped to $1400 - so much for my hope that I could achieve a lower fare by nesting SAN-SIN/PVG-SAN and SIN-SAN/SAN-PVG.
Jun 26, 2004 | 3:34 pm
#114
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Well this year I'll really need to push to requalify and get those SWU's for those monsters I've created SIN in January is a wonderful way to start.
Put me down as a maybe + 1.
Hopefully my cousin will get a fast start towards 1K status
SIN in January is a wonderful way to start.Put me down as a maybe + 1.
Hopefully my cousin will get a fast start towards 1K status
Jun 26, 2004 | 8:51 pm
#115
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BIG THANKS TO cawhite90156 who gave me the heads up on a fare less than $850, Im IN!!! Woo-hoo!
Jan 13:
United Airlines 895 12:30pm depart ORD
Jan 14
arrive HKG 18:20
United Airlines 869 20:10 depart HKG, arriving 11:55pm into SIN
Flying out on Jan 16 via NRT, SEA, back to ORD.
Jan 13:
United Airlines 895 12:30pm depart ORD
Jan 14
arrive HKG 18:20
United Airlines 869 20:10 depart HKG, arriving 11:55pm into SIN
Flying out on Jan 16 via NRT, SEA, back to ORD.
Jun 26, 2004 | 9:30 pm
#116
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Blindly confirming.....:-D
I'm going out on a limb to say I'll make it... SinDoo here we come.... still no ticket or hotel, but we'll worry about the details later
I'll watch for fare sales n stuff as the winter approaches.
So, guess I'll see yaz there.... can almost taste the pepper crabs already
Jun 26, 2004 | 10:47 pm
#118
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Originally Posted by seanthepilot
I'm going out on a limb to say I'll make it... SinDoo here we come.... still no ticket or hotel, but we'll worry about the details later
I'll watch for fare sales n stuff as the winter approaches.
So, guess I'll see yaz there.... can almost taste the pepper crabs already
Jun 27, 2004 | 6:23 am
#119
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Originally Posted by SanDiego1K
What price did the two of you find?
Jun 27, 2004 | 8:56 am
#120
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$821.70 for the v-fare, given that the Q fares have been pricing out at $1345 for the past month. Good enough for me since the upgrades are confirmed for all segments (with Sweet Willie hopefully soon to make it 3 Cgo FTers on the upper deck 
Which also means someone to take pictures of me climbing over the top of seat 15A enroute from HKG-SIN 
)
Which also means someone to take pictures of me climbing over the top of seat 15A enroute from HKG-SIN )