CAI-TLV Award Ticket: Is this even possible?
#1
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CAI-TLV Award Ticket: Is this even possible?
Given the hostilities between the two countries, it's insanely expensive to fly between them and you would technically need a connection on top of that.
Looking at delta.com though, it doesn't look like that even exists as a bookable route! For Oneworld, I can book an award ticket via AMM and on Star Alliance via ATH/IST, so it is doable, I'm sure.
What are my options with Skymiles?
Looking at delta.com though, it doesn't look like that even exists as a bookable route! For Oneworld, I can book an award ticket via AMM and on Star Alliance via ATH/IST, so it is doable, I'm sure.
What are my options with Skymiles?
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Given the hostilities between the two countries, it's insanely expensive to fly between them and you would technically need a connection on top of that.
Looking at delta.com though, it doesn't look like that even exists as a bookable route! For Oneworld, I can book an award ticket via AMM and on Star Alliance via ATH/IST, so it is doable, I'm sure.
What are my options with Skymiles?
Looking at delta.com though, it doesn't look like that even exists as a bookable route! For Oneworld, I can book an award ticket via AMM and on Star Alliance via ATH/IST, so it is doable, I'm sure.
What are my options with Skymiles?
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Yes is possible. However limited flights means limited award availability. Do NOT price as multi city. You'll be paying twice the amount. N. Africa to ME Y class should be 25k.
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FWIW, Kayak doesn't find any options using Skyteam at all, nor any with oneworld.
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Maybe TAROM has an option? Their availability isnt on Delta.com, but it is a SkyTeam partner. Romania is out of the way, but not like Paris... They serve CAI on a seasonal basis.
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Do they still? It isn't listed as a destination on their website... Only reference I can find is to offers of free cancellations after the 2011 terrorist attacks...
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Except I don't think DL will price out CAI-TLV at all, for revenue or Skymiles. It doesn't appear to be a valid route in the DL system. Tested it in a five week search, got "Uh-oh! We're sorry, but no results were found for your search. Some of our flights only operate seasonally or on select days of the week."
FWIW, Kayak doesn't find any options using Skyteam at all, nor any with oneworld.
FWIW, Kayak doesn't find any options using Skyteam at all, nor any with oneworld.
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There are routes where DL does not sell revenue tickets, but still offers award redemptions. The current website award search has various issues right now as has been documented in several other threads. It always defaults to a flexible dates award search (even when specifying exact dates) and there are a number of routes where flexible dates search always fails, but where an exact dates search will succeed. There are a couple of workarounds to get the website into an exact dates search mode for awards -- the simplest is to just use m.delta.com. The other workaround is to use the app. However, after doing a number of exact dates searches on this particular route, I have yet to find one that succeeds. So I'm inclined to believe that DL does not consider it a valid award route.
#12
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I can't help with booking, but according to the Skyteam website, you're only routing options, one-stop, on Skyteam, are via CDG and FCO. Can you get to BEY? There's a non-stop on MEA. I can find availability via AF/KL, in Y for 15K Flying Blue points, but on DL only J for 40K Skymiles. For the one-stop, I can find availability on AF/KL for 34,250 Flying Blue points, via FCO, but I can't on DL. I get a weird Miles+Cash error message in the app when trying to pull up the same days. Good luck.
https://applications.skyteam.com/rou...stinations/TLV
https://applications.skyteam.com/rou...stinations/TLV
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I can't help with booking, but according to the Skyteam website, you're only routing options, one-stop, on Skyteam, are via CDG and FCO. Can you get to BEY? There's a non-stop on MEA. I can find availability via AF/KL, in Y for 15K Flying Blue points, but on DL only J for 40K Skymiles. For the one-stop, I can find availability on AF/KL for 34,250 Flying Blue points, via FCO, but I can't on DL. I get a weird Miles+Cash error message in the app when trying to pull up the same days. Good luck.
Staying within Skyteam, connecting through FCO seems like the best bet, followed by CDG.
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Two more options. Royal Jordanian flies via Amman, priced about $210 one way. Ugly connection, though.
Air Sinai flies several times weekly nonstop. Maybe daily. Or maybe it's just one a week? It's difficult to book online but there should be online agencies which would handle them OR your hotel concierge should be able to obtain tickets, which should be in the $200-300 range, if you contact them early enough. I've flown them (they are a subsidiary of Egypt Air) and the flight is fairly routine except for really tight security. If you are up for a real adventure, yet safe, this is the place. Also see https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/new...article627176/
Air Sinai flies several times weekly nonstop. Maybe daily. Or maybe it's just one a week? It's difficult to book online but there should be online agencies which would handle them OR your hotel concierge should be able to obtain tickets, which should be in the $200-300 range, if you contact them early enough. I've flown them (they are a subsidiary of Egypt Air) and the flight is fairly routine except for really tight security. If you are up for a real adventure, yet safe, this is the place. Also see https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/new...article627176/
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Two more options. Royal Jordanian flies via Amman, priced about $210 one way. Ugly connection, though.
Air Sinai flies several times weekly nonstop. Maybe daily. Or maybe it's just one a week? It's difficult to book online but there should be online agencies which would handle them OR your hotel concierge should be able to obtain tickets, which should be in the $200-300 range, if you contact them early enough. I've flown them (they are a subsidiary of Egypt Air) and the flight is fairly routine except for really tight security. If you are up for a real adventure, yet safe, this is the place. Also see https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/new...article627176/
Air Sinai flies several times weekly nonstop. Maybe daily. Or maybe it's just one a week? It's difficult to book online but there should be online agencies which would handle them OR your hotel concierge should be able to obtain tickets, which should be in the $200-300 range, if you contact them early enough. I've flown them (they are a subsidiary of Egypt Air) and the flight is fairly routine except for really tight security. If you are up for a real adventure, yet safe, this is the place. Also see https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/new...article627176/