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hqly2001 Jul 10, 2013 11:05 am
Advice: SFO to Cancun
 
A friend just informed me that he's going to get married in cancun in Nov. What airline miles is the best redemption to cancun in terms of the least amount of miles and availability? I've got miles all across various programs and CC. Thx

mike2200 Jul 10, 2013 11:08 am
Originally Posted by hqly2001 (Post 21073411)
A friend just informed me that he's going to get married in cancun in Nov. What airline miles is the best redemption to cancun in terms of the least amount of miles and availability? I've got miles all across various programs and CC. Thx
What airlines have you looked at so far?

hqly2001 Jul 10, 2013 11:19 am
Originally Posted by mike2200 (Post 21073436)
What airlines have you looked at so far?
All. It looks like only United flies direct. This is based on Expedia. Might have to search the other airlines individually to see if they fly direct also.

Anyone who flies there often have any advice?

iolairemcfadden Jul 10, 2013 1:05 pm
Originally Posted by hqly2001 (Post 21073411)
A friend just informed me that he's going to get married in cancun in Nov. What airline miles is the best redemption to cancun in terms of the least amount of miles and availability? I've got miles all across various programs and CC. Thx
Look it up at: http://www.wandr.me/Tools/Frequent_F...n_Options.aspx

clacko Jul 10, 2013 1:08 pm
did you look at oak & sjc?....if ua has the only non stop, maybe buy the ticket if an award isn't available....

Kagehitokiri Jul 10, 2013 1:17 pm
united - fri/sat/sun
virgin - sat

hqly2001 Jul 10, 2013 2:38 pm
It looks like all saver flights are gone. Tix are 600 vs 60k miles on non-saver.
I'll have to look into Delta and see if they fly there. I've got 50ks which i probably won't use otherwise.

I'll check the prices on virgin. Don't have any miles with them though. I'd hope to be able to get there fro 25k miles but it doesn't look like there's any other options.

DFWsakp Jul 10, 2013 4:44 pm
SFO to Cancun
 
Look for Avios to use on AA. I went from DFW to CUN for 15000 miles round trip but you need Saver availability. It will probably cost you 25000 from SFO but still not bad.

benzemalyonnais Jul 10, 2013 5:03 pm
Delta will probably work with AM, but it's going to require a couple of connections

SFOPhD Jul 10, 2013 6:05 pm
Originally Posted by DFWsakp (Post 21075395)
Look for Avios to use on AA. I went from DFW to CUN for 15000 miles round trip but you need Saver availability. It will probably cost you 25000 from SFO but still not bad.
Probably 35k actually. 15k for DFW-CUN and 20k for SFO-DFW. BA unfortunately prices awards by segment, not by origin to destination distance.

hqly2001 Jul 12, 2013 12:17 am
Originally Posted by saadrvb (Post 21076329)
if ua has the only non stop, maybe buy the ticket if an award isn't available.http://www.camj.info/7g1.jpg
Trying to avod paying 600+ x 3 and use miles instead.

Kacee Jul 12, 2013 12:17 am
Originally Posted by hqly2001 (Post 21074667)
It looks like all saver flights are gone. Tix are 600 vs 60k miles on non-saver.
Not a very good redemption if the paid ticket is $600. Even the saver award is borderline, at less than 2 cpm.

SuperKirby Jul 12, 2013 12:24 am
I just looked up Virgin America for LAX->CUN for 21K RT and $70.84 in taxes for November. Maybe SFO will be similar?

ETA: just saw u don't have miles on VX

jsw1773 Jul 13, 2013 3:13 pm
SFO to Cancun
 
Virgin Atlantic charges just 25k miles round trip to fly SFO-CUN on Virgin America; I think you have to call for availability.

hqly2001 Jul 16, 2013 12:26 am
What credit card program tran sfer to V Atlantic? I thnk MR only teansfer to V America.


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