Hi - Anyone knows where to find best deal from Boston to Hong Kong
Mar 22, 2017, 10:58 am
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Hi - Anyone knows where to find best deal from Boston to Hong Kong
Hi - any one knows of the least miles from Boston to HK for Delta round trip? I have 200K but that does not even get me on a business flight. Only 1-option available with a stop at Seattle.
Mar 22, 2017, 11:01 am
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Look at surrounding cities too. I've often seen good deals ex-JFK. In terms of miles, if you're looking for this summer, much of the low-level biz space is already gone.
Mar 22, 2017, 11:28 am
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OP might try the flex dates function in ITA Matrix, then try Orbitz, etc., or contacting the carrier(s) directly.
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Mar 22, 2017, 12:09 pm
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If you have until mid-December for the flight, I would suggest booking whatever you can at the lowest level you can find, even if the flights are not ideal, and I imagine you'll get a schedule change that will let you switch to a more preferred routing
Mar 22, 2017, 12:50 pm
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Great advice from kop84 there.
Mar 22, 2017, 2:58 pm
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Consider booking out of New York, I'm seeing an option leaving on 12/16 JFK-PVG-HKG and returning HKG-SEA-DTW-JFK on 12/23 for 210,000 miles. The return routing is lousy, but you could use a schedule change to get put on the HKG-PVG-JFK routing back home. I also like the JFK-PVG flight since it departs right after midnight making it easy to fall asleep before arriving in Asia the next day.
Mar 22, 2017, 3:22 pm
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Consider booking out of New York, I'm seeing an option leaving on 12/16 JFK-PVG-HKG and returning HKG-SEA-DTW-JFK on 12/23 for 210,000 miles. The return routing is lousy, but you could use a schedule change to get put on the HKG-PVG-JFK routing back home. I also like the JFK-PVG flight since it departs right after midnight making it easy to fall asleep before arriving in Asia the next day.
Much more possible that he could get on HKG/SEA/JFK or they may stretch it and let him go back to BOS if the change is significant enough.
Mar 22, 2017, 8:48 pm
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OP might try the flex dates function in ITA Matrix, then try Orbitz, etc., or contacting the carrier(s) directly.
http://matrix.itasoftware.com/
http://matrix.itasoftware.com/
Mar 22, 2017, 10:24 pm
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Would personally be too afraid the schedule changes wouldn't happen to hang my hat on this approach.
Mar 23, 2017, 8:14 am
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But if OP ends up with 3 flights OW and they're 9 months away, I'd imagine the odds of a schedule change enough to make at least some improvement approaches 95%. And the odds of a change big enough to get pretty much exactly what he wants approaches 80%
Mar 23, 2017, 12:01 pm
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The only city DL flies to HKG is SEA and that would make it a 3 segment trip as you need to connect from BOS to SEA.
The best deal in J for this route is the promo fare on CX's new direct service
The best deal in J for this route is the promo fare on CX's new direct service