Surface Sector on Multi City Flights?
Jul 6, 2016 | 1:07 pm
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Surface Sector on Multi City Flights?
Hello All!
I am new to posting on Flyertalk and the frequent flyer world, but have been ninja scouring the forums for a while now.
I am looking to travel from the US to Thailand, India, and then Greece using as many points as possible. I have over 100k UR points at my disposable and am not looking to return to the US, ruling out a RTW ticket.
Is it possible to put together a multi city ticket involving all of these places, but include a surface sector that would allow me to see more of Asia? i.e. travel from U.S. to Thailand, then Thailand to Singapore by land, and then fly to India from Singapore on one multi city ticket? It seems like this might be cheaper than purchasing a string of one ways that may eat up more points individually.
I realize that using points for this will be complicated, but I just want to know if it can be done.
Thanks for any insight!
I am new to posting on Flyertalk and the frequent flyer world, but have been ninja scouring the forums for a while now.
I am looking to travel from the US to Thailand, India, and then Greece using as many points as possible. I have over 100k UR points at my disposable and am not looking to return to the US, ruling out a RTW ticket.
Is it possible to put together a multi city ticket involving all of these places, but include a surface sector that would allow me to see more of Asia? i.e. travel from U.S. to Thailand, then Thailand to Singapore by land, and then fly to India from Singapore on one multi city ticket? It seems like this might be cheaper than purchasing a string of one ways that may eat up more points individually.
I realize that using points for this will be complicated, but I just want to know if it can be done.
Thanks for any insight!
Jul 6, 2016 | 1:28 pm
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US to Thailand, surface sector to Singapore, then fly to India...what about Greece? United can be quite flexible, so play around with their search engine.
Jul 6, 2016 | 1:38 pm
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Yes I would like to fly to Greece from India on this ticket as well, maybe including a surface sector in India to see two different parts of the country. My real question was if surface sectors can be included into one cohesive multi city ticket. I'll check out united's site and what I can do.
Jul 6, 2016 | 8:18 pm
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type1travel, welcome to FT.
Here are a couple of thoughts for your plan: A United award ticket would allow an "Open Jaw" routing on a r/t ticket. These can offer some very creative opportunities. Also, you can stay 23 hours on a layover. People have been known to add crazy amounts of 23 hour or less stops in cities that they want to have a quick chance to see.
You could also branch out from a main city using BA Avios (distance based, usually cheap for shorter flights, transfer partner of Ultimate Rewards and others) as well as ground transport.
I'm going to move this to the Information Desk, as it is only peripherally related to Chase or Ultimate Rewards. Please follow the thread over there. Thanks.
Here are a couple of thoughts for your plan: A United award ticket would allow an "Open Jaw" routing on a r/t ticket. These can offer some very creative opportunities. Also, you can stay 23 hours on a layover. People have been known to add crazy amounts of 23 hour or less stops in cities that they want to have a quick chance to see.
You could also branch out from a main city using BA Avios (distance based, usually cheap for shorter flights, transfer partner of Ultimate Rewards and others) as well as ground transport.
I'm going to move this to the Information Desk, as it is only peripherally related to Chase or Ultimate Rewards. Please follow the thread over there. Thanks.
Jul 6, 2016 | 11:52 pm
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type1travel Welcome to FT
What advantage do you expect on 1 ticket/PNR over a series of point to point tickets?
Very few ffp's allow a stopover/stopovers on award flights.
In Asia low cost airlines are common, if you are OK with economy/coach
Have you researched which airlines fly to your destinations?
Have you researched what airlines freq flyer programs you can transfer to?
Are the airlines that fly to your destinations transfer partners or freq flyer partners of these airlines.
Awards assistance tools (use at your own risk. May not be up to date. These are not recommendations)
- AwardAce: Compare Award Redemptions Across Airlines In Seconds -->http://www.awardace.com/
- Economical Excursionist's Tools to compare Frequent Flyer Mile Redemptions --> http://www.flyermiler.com/
- http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trave...ast-miles.html --> http://www.awardhacker.com/
Yes I would like to fly to Greece from India on this ticket as well, maybe including a surface sector in India to see two different parts of the country. My real question was if surface sectors can be included into one cohesive multi city ticket. I'll check out United's site and what I can do.
Very few ffp's allow a stopover/stopovers on award flights.
In Asia low cost airlines are common, if you are OK with economy/coach
Have you researched which airlines fly to your destinations?
Have you researched what airlines freq flyer programs you can transfer to?
Are the airlines that fly to your destinations transfer partners or freq flyer partners of these airlines.
Awards assistance tools (use at your own risk. May not be up to date. These are not recommendations)
- AwardAce: Compare Award Redemptions Across Airlines In Seconds -->http://www.awardace.com/
- Economical Excursionist's Tools to compare Frequent Flyer Mile Redemptions --> http://www.flyermiler.com/
- http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trave...ast-miles.html --> http://www.awardhacker.com/