"New" mileage routing restrictions to OZ; Now impossible to go via Asia
Apr 29, 2016, 11:59 am
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You mentioned you called and they were able to book "the exact routing I found" - can you elaborate? I'm currently not even able to search DL for the routes I was previously seeing. Are you pricing seg by seg, making notes, and then calling in?
Was doing some speculating last night, the prices to get to SYD or BNE are out of control, even if I position myself to LA. I really hope something changes over the coming months. I can live without getting the lowest mileage redemption but right now they are utterly ridiculous, it might be cheaper to buy J!
Was doing some speculating last night, the prices to get to SYD or BNE are out of control, even if I position myself to LA. I really hope something changes over the coming months. I can live without getting the lowest mileage redemption but right now they are utterly ridiculous, it might be cheaper to buy J!
I got really lucky and happened to find 2 seats on VA in J recently on LAX-BNE later on and switched my outbound so now it's a shorter trip there but no options have opened up on the return (although I'm excited for the stopover in Japan anyway so I'm leaning towards not changing even if the space does open). I'll have to position to LAX but no big deal. Score a big win for the award redeposit waiver for PMs/DMs.
May 18, 2016, 9:26 am
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Wow, nice work Atobttr, somehow I had missed your reply with those details. Well done!
I guess I'll have to work on the same type of routing, either via Asia or possibly even AMS. Looks like I can get partner AMS-BNE for 180k pp RT. Looks like it could be upwards of 2 hops depending on the day, possibly through CAN or TPE, maybe others.
Question for you experts, and I hope I'm not hijacking the thread. But how do I go about researching any visa requirements for a trip like this? Mostly wondering about the connection points and what may or may not be required. Probably as simple as visiting the potential airports webpages but would love to hear if anyone has a better suggestion. If I recall we will need some sort of a visa to enter AU.
Also, should I have any concerns if I do end up booking BOS-AMS-BOS and have a AMS-BNE-AMS snuck in the middle of the 1st trip?
I guess I'll have to work on the same type of routing, either via Asia or possibly even AMS. Looks like I can get partner AMS-BNE for 180k pp RT. Looks like it could be upwards of 2 hops depending on the day, possibly through CAN or TPE, maybe others.
Question for you experts, and I hope I'm not hijacking the thread. But how do I go about researching any visa requirements for a trip like this? Mostly wondering about the connection points and what may or may not be required. Probably as simple as visiting the potential airports webpages but would love to hear if anyone has a better suggestion. If I recall we will need some sort of a visa to enter AU.
Also, should I have any concerns if I do end up booking BOS-AMS-BOS and have a AMS-BNE-AMS snuck in the middle of the 1st trip?
May 18, 2016, 9:30 am
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https://travel.state.gov/content/pas...n/country.html
and look up the countries you will be transiting/visiting; the results page has some summaries and other drilldowns.
May 18, 2016, 10:17 am
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Not an expert, but one place to start is
https://travel.state.gov/content/pas...n/country.html
and look up the countries you will be transiting/visiting; the results page has some summaries and other drilldowns.
https://travel.state.gov/content/pas...n/country.html
and look up the countries you will be transiting/visiting; the results page has some summaries and other drilldowns.