West Coast - BKK flight deals/questions
Jan 20, 2017, 4:28 pm
#1
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West Coast - BKK flight deals/questions
Goal:
Find promo/deal tickets for family of 5 (kids ages 14, 11, & 9) for travel to BKK (Thailand in general, like Chiang Mai, is fine too), on an airline with business class or higher seats, using an airline promotion and/or our recent 100,000 from the Chase Sapphire Reserve card we have.
Dates: December 13/14/15, 2017 - January 3/4/5/6, 2018
Open to: Completely open to leaving from any West Coast city, like SEA, PDX, LAX, or even Vancouver and even more open to a stop over 24-48 hours, which would be better on us overall to slowly acclimate to time change. Don't mind stop over in ICN or SIN etc
Questions:
What month should I be looking at for airline promo/deals?
Which airlines, might not allow kids in Business or First?
Which airlines might be best to look at for this trip?
Suggestions, tips, thoughts?
Find promo/deal tickets for family of 5 (kids ages 14, 11, & 9) for travel to BKK (Thailand in general, like Chiang Mai, is fine too), on an airline with business class or higher seats, using an airline promotion and/or our recent 100,000 from the Chase Sapphire Reserve card we have.
Dates: December 13/14/15, 2017 - January 3/4/5/6, 2018
Open to: Completely open to leaving from any West Coast city, like SEA, PDX, LAX, or even Vancouver and even more open to a stop over 24-48 hours, which would be better on us overall to slowly acclimate to time change. Don't mind stop over in ICN or SIN etc
Questions:
What month should I be looking at for airline promo/deals?
Which airlines, might not allow kids in Business or First?
Which airlines might be best to look at for this trip?
Suggestions, tips, thoughts?
Jan 20, 2017, 5:51 pm
#3
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Those 100,000 points will get you 1 ticket The rest you'll be paying for which can be a poor possibility when traveling in groups unless you can get the routing you desire which is more difficult with award tickets during a rather popular travel time.
You could use those points to reduce your overall cost via the UR travel portal at a fixed point to cents ratio.
As for sales. Those happen but aren't guaranteed at any point in time. You should track prices and see where they go. When you find a price you're comfortable with that sounds good you buy.
You could use those points to reduce your overall cost via the UR travel portal at a fixed point to cents ratio.
As for sales. Those happen but aren't guaranteed at any point in time. You should track prices and see where they go. When you find a price you're comfortable with that sounds good you buy.
Goal:
Find promo/deal tickets for family of 5 (kids ages 14, 11, & 9) for travel to BKK (Thailand in general, like Chiang Mai, is fine too), on an airline with business class or higher seats, using an airline promotion and/or our recent 100,000 from the Chase Sapphire Reserve card we have.
Dates: December 13/14/15, 2017 - January 3/4/5/6, 2018
Open to: Completely open to leaving from any West Coast city, like SEA, PDX, LAX, or even Vancouver and even more open to a stop over 24-48 hours, which would be better on us overall to slowly acclimate to time change. Don't mind stop over in ICN or SIN etc
Questions:
What month should I be looking at for airline promo/deals?
Which airlines, might not allow kids in Business or First?
Which airlines might be best to look at for this trip?
Suggestions, tips, thoughts?
Find promo/deal tickets for family of 5 (kids ages 14, 11, & 9) for travel to BKK (Thailand in general, like Chiang Mai, is fine too), on an airline with business class or higher seats, using an airline promotion and/or our recent 100,000 from the Chase Sapphire Reserve card we have.
Dates: December 13/14/15, 2017 - January 3/4/5/6, 2018
Open to: Completely open to leaving from any West Coast city, like SEA, PDX, LAX, or even Vancouver and even more open to a stop over 24-48 hours, which would be better on us overall to slowly acclimate to time change. Don't mind stop over in ICN or SIN etc
Questions:
What month should I be looking at for airline promo/deals?
Which airlines, might not allow kids in Business or First?
Which airlines might be best to look at for this trip?
Suggestions, tips, thoughts?
Jan 21, 2017, 9:52 am
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It's always difficult to predict when sales will pop up, but I doubt you're going to see anything significantly cheaper over the Christmas holidays. As others have said, 100,000 point will get you one business class seat, but whether you can combine that flight with four paid tickets at good value on the same flight is something to consider.
I think the idea of signing up for lots of credit cards and getting bonuses is not likely to work for you. Unless you are about to spend a lot of money anyway, it's unlikely you'll get another 400,000 or so points in time to redeem them for Christmas, which is a very busy time when everyone is trying to get reward seats. Even at the best of times, five premium seats TPAC is a challenge.
I think the idea of signing up for lots of credit cards and getting bonuses is not likely to work for you. Unless you are about to spend a lot of money anyway, it's unlikely you'll get another 400,000 or so points in time to redeem them for Christmas, which is a very busy time when everyone is trying to get reward seats. Even at the best of times, five premium seats TPAC is a challenge.