Continental Select
Nov 19, 2001 | 8:24 pm
#31
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: now flyinfroggie
Posts: 125
I was starting to feel a little left out, when I remembered that I hadn't checked my mail today - and there it was...
6 trips - 30,000 bonus miles
7 trips - +5,000 bonus miles
8 trips - +5,000 bonus miles
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maximum = 40,000
6 trips - 30,000 bonus miles
7 trips - +5,000 bonus miles
8 trips - +5,000 bonus miles
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maximum = 40,000
Nov 19, 2001 | 8:29 pm
#32
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: now flyinfroggie
Posts: 125
Oh, I forgot to mention - I almost always fly on "el cheapo" fares... and for the last several years, I never seem to travel between Jan 1 and April 15. The bulk of my travel begins in the spring.
Okay - so how do we do this in conjunction with the continetal.com promotion of the bonus miles if we can't use co.com to select "non T or Q" fares?
Okay - so how do we do this in conjunction with the continetal.com promotion of the bonus miles if we can't use co.com to select "non T or Q" fares?
Nov 19, 2001 | 8:38 pm
#33
Join Date: May 2000
Location: The first word spoken from the moon
Posts: 117
The rules say that T and Q fares are excluded. What happens to multi-segment roundtrips with different fares. For example, Houston>>Newark (Q) Newark>>Tel Aviv (B) return. Would this qualify as one credit or not?
Nov 19, 2001 | 8:54 pm
#34
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: now flyinfroggie
Posts: 125
Sorry, just me again... had to voice a little frustration. If I'm reading the fares correctly - this promotion seems a little useless to me if one cannot use Q or T in conjunction with it. I'm pricing a day trip to CRP from AUS for a day in December (at least 14 day adv):
T - 106.00
T - 140.00
T - 146.00
T - 186.00
Q - 202.00
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B - 482.00
D - 582.00
Y - 582.00
A - 710.00
Y - 968.00
F - 1392.00
The promotion looks nice on the cover (especially on that nice paper), but I don't see paying 2.5 times the highest lower fare just to qualify...
Okay - I'll let someone else talk now.
T - 106.00
T - 140.00
T - 146.00
T - 186.00
Q - 202.00
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B - 482.00
D - 582.00
Y - 582.00
A - 710.00
Y - 968.00
F - 1392.00
The promotion looks nice on the cover (especially on that nice paper), but I don't see paying 2.5 times the highest lower fare just to qualify...
Okay - I'll let someone else talk now.
Nov 20, 2001 | 6:48 pm
#35
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Smoke filled room, TPA and FLL/MIA :UAL 1K and 2MM,AA EX PLAT and 2MM,Lifetime Plat Starwood
Posts: 4,318
oh boy...
25 paid trips= 150,000
28 paid trips= +18,000
32 paid trips= +24,000
total=192,000
That's ALOT of segments...
25 paid trips= 150,000
28 paid trips= +18,000
32 paid trips= +24,000
total=192,000
That's ALOT of segments...
Nov 20, 2001 | 9:38 pm
#36
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: A Southern locale that ain't the South.
Programs: Bah, HUMBUG!
Posts: 8,014
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by cigarman:
That's ALOT of segments...</font>
That's ALOT of segments...</font>
[This message has been edited by kanebear (edited 11-20-2001).]
Nov 21, 2001 | 2:27 pm
#37
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Houston, TX USA
Posts: 387
30 roundtrips = 180,000 miles
34 roundtrips = 204,000 miles
40 roundtrips = 240,000 miles
Too many trips (40), not enough time (6 months), and too high of a fare (no Q or T fares) required to make this an attractive offer.
34 roundtrips = 204,000 miles
40 roundtrips = 240,000 miles
Too many trips (40), not enough time (6 months), and too high of a fare (no Q or T fares) required to make this an attractive offer.
Nov 25, 2001 | 4:05 am
#38
Original Member
Join Date: May 1998
Location: SFO/JFK
Programs: Hilton: Diamond, Bonvoy: Lifetime Titanium, Hyatt: Platinum, AS: MVP Gold
Posts: 632
17 trips = 102,000
19 = 114,000
22 = 132,000
19 = 114,000
22 = 132,000
Jun 6, 2002 | 9:31 am
#39
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Glen Ridge, NJ USA
Posts: 178
I know this is an old post, but I too go targeted.
lots of miles but need 40 RT's.
DId a trip am EWR to Boston, 8 hours later Boston-iah-sea, then rwo days later
portland-iah-ewr
I only got credited for 1 RT, they did not count the ewr-boston as 1/2 rt as it was the same day. That negates doing mileage runs to try and get up to 40 RT's
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CO Plat, AA PLat
Starwood Plat
lots of miles but need 40 RT's.
DId a trip am EWR to Boston, 8 hours later Boston-iah-sea, then rwo days later
portland-iah-ewr
I only got credited for 1 RT, they did not count the ewr-boston as 1/2 rt as it was the same day. That negates doing mileage runs to try and get up to 40 RT's
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CO Plat, AA PLat
Starwood Plat
Jul 3, 2002 | 2:55 pm
#40
Guest
Posts: n/a
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Roselinda:
I know this is an old post, but I too go targeted.
lots of miles but need 40 RT's.
DId a trip am EWR to Boston, 8 hours later Boston-iah-sea, then rwo days later
portland-iah-ewr
I only got credited for 1 RT, they did not count the ewr-boston as 1/2 rt as it was the same day. That negates doing mileage runs to try and get up to 40 RT's
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I know this is an old post, but I too go targeted.
lots of miles but need 40 RT's.
DId a trip am EWR to Boston, 8 hours later Boston-iah-sea, then rwo days later
portland-iah-ewr
I only got credited for 1 RT, they did not count the ewr-boston as 1/2 rt as it was the same day. That negates doing mileage runs to try and get up to 40 RT's
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A paltry 192,000 miles.
Aug 2, 2002 | 12:48 pm
#41
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Austin, TX
Programs: AA Plat, Delta Slvr, SPG Plat, Hyatt Diamond, Priority Club Plat, Hilton Gold, Hertz 5star
Posts: 129
I have until September 30th, 2002, to complete 40 round trips for 320k miles.
Right now, it looks like I am going to be 9 round trips short.
Living in Austin, I am thinking of taking quick trips into Houston (IAH) to complete the 9 round trips... I can probably keep the cost to $1100-$1500.
I do not have the Q/T fare restriction; does anyone have suggestions/caveats about doing this? (i.e. no return within 4 hours, etc.?)
Thanks in advance,
Brian
Right now, it looks like I am going to be 9 round trips short.
Living in Austin, I am thinking of taking quick trips into Houston (IAH) to complete the 9 round trips... I can probably keep the cost to $1100-$1500.
I do not have the Q/T fare restriction; does anyone have suggestions/caveats about doing this? (i.e. no return within 4 hours, etc.?)
Thanks in advance,
Brian
Aug 2, 2002 | 2:19 pm
#42
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: IAH
Programs: UA 1K/*G
Posts: 2,397
If you have more time than miles, you might consider running to EFD instead of IAH. You'd get an additional 1000mi per each trip and it's only a couple bucks more than IAH.
You can only complete one AUS-IAH-EFD-IAH-AUS a day, though.
You can only complete one AUS-IAH-EFD-IAH-AUS a day, though.
Aug 2, 2002 | 2:40 pm
#43
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: NY,NY USA
Posts: 266
I received offers like this from CO as well - one of them was after I opened up my OnePass account but didn't take a single flight for about a year - I get a letter saying that since I am a new Onepass customer who hasn't taken my first flight, they are offering my with an oppurtunity to earn upto 20000 miles for 3 flights (any class even Q, T). It worked I took my first flight and got half of those 20,000 miles.
Then a few months later, they sent me another offer saying that they are happy I took my first flight but want me to keep flying - so they were offering me like 7500 miles for every flight (except Q and T).
My neighbour got a letter saying that it's been a while since he flew so they are giving him 10,000 miles for every flight. I tried registering under that code but it didn't work.
The whole point of these promtions in to get less freqent flyers to fly and it works a lot of times. For those of you who already fly a lot, CO has no reason to give you an incentive besides those already in places (Elite Status, etc.)
Then a few months later, they sent me another offer saying that they are happy I took my first flight but want me to keep flying - so they were offering me like 7500 miles for every flight (except Q and T).
My neighbour got a letter saying that it's been a while since he flew so they are giving him 10,000 miles for every flight. I tried registering under that code but it didn't work.
The whole point of these promtions in to get less freqent flyers to fly and it works a lot of times. For those of you who already fly a lot, CO has no reason to give you an incentive besides those already in places (Elite Status, etc.)
Aug 3, 2002 | 3:13 pm
#44
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: So Fla & NYC
Programs: DL DM/2MM, UA MM, BV LT Titanium, HH Diamond
Posts: 23,768
Ms. monitor got one of these offers last fall and is now home free on the first plateau of 216,000 miles for 27 trips. I wonder how they came up with those numbers and then got her and not me? I have a very similar flying pattern to hers and about the same seven figure mileage bank with them, but no dice.