Good Deal Premium Fares 2012
Jul 24, 2012 | 10:18 am
#1441
Join Date: May 1998
Location: australia
Posts: 5,816
When a connection city has a higher fare than that which you are using between the origin and destination cities, that invokes Higher Intermediate Point provisions of fare rules. Also, see this thread for a discussion.
Jul 24, 2012 | 11:24 am
#1442
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Trenton, NJ (PHL, EWR)
Programs: A3 Gold, BA Bronze
Posts: 1,633
US over Thanksgiving, EWR-DUB. $854 a/i, books into A for domestic routes, Z for intl. Can route EWR-CLT-PHL-DUB. With class of service bonus gets 6.7 cpm. Sample dates 11/21-11/25. It's the 762 across the pond, so no Envoy suites, but still.
Jul 24, 2012 | 11:27 am
#1443
formerly known as DeltaNYC
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: YYZ, mostly...
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This is the lowest TATL Thanksgiving J fare I have ever seen.
Jul 24, 2012 | 11:57 am
#1444
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Trenton, NJ (PHL, EWR)
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I know, right? I only saw it by accident when searching on a whim for economy flights. I'd accidently left the kayak search on F from a previous search. If I wasn't just returning from the RGN jumbo fare the week before I'd be less on the fence and already booked this.
Jul 24, 2012 | 3:14 pm
#1445
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Indeed, that is really low. It's barely a slightly worse than normal Y fare!
ITA is showing some DCA/BWI connections between PHL and CLT in the middle as well, maybe bump the miles up a couple more that way if needed. All mainline as well.
A little higher at around $1050 RT AI from BOS as well, same BOS-CLT-PHL-DUB routing, but may require an overnight along the way?
ITA is showing some DCA/BWI connections between PHL and CLT in the middle as well, maybe bump the miles up a couple more that way if needed. All mainline as well.
A little higher at around $1050 RT AI from BOS as well, same BOS-CLT-PHL-DUB routing, but may require an overnight along the way?
Jul 24, 2012 | 3:57 pm
#1446
Join Date: Jul 2011
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Anyone have the fare rules on this? Any dates other than the actual weekend of Thanksgiving available?
Jul 24, 2012 | 4:15 pm
#1447
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. No idea on if/how you'll be able to book it though.
Jul 24, 2012 | 4:24 pm
#1448
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: YYC - not the centre of the universe
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http://www.klm.com/travel/ca_en/plan...9612395|793151
KLM Summer deals from Canada. 2500 CAD Toronto/Montreal - Europe
Interesting was 2999 CAD Toronto-JNB, 3299 Calgary-JNB.
KLM Summer deals from Canada. 2500 CAD Toronto/Montreal - Europe
Interesting was 2999 CAD Toronto-JNB, 3299 Calgary-JNB.
Jul 24, 2012 | 4:46 pm
#1449
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: W29
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Very good deal. I am also seeing $1270 out of ORD and it is not as good as the EWR deal for anyone in the midwest it might bee good if ORD is a drive away and still a solid fare.
Jul 24, 2012 | 7:43 pm
#1450
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: NYC
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Nope, it is locked down to that week. There is an interesting little tweak in the routing rules though...FT prohibits posting info from paid sources, but check ExpertFlyer out (especially those routing rules) if you'd like to squeeze out even a few more miles from this fare. Should allow you to book Envoy suites too . No idea on if/how you'll be able to book it though.
. No idea on if/how you'll be able to book it though.Haven't tried with stopovers, and tough enough trying to build a 8 segment trip on big O.
Unfortunately I can't take advantage of this fare, I'm kicking myself for buying a LX C fare to ATH last week, thought I had a good thanksgiving deal, guess not...
Jul 24, 2012 | 8:05 pm
#1451
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VERY good routing/stopover rules. Found it on Big O, NYC-CLT-PHL-X-DUB for $1,001. X: being the transit point served by A330 Envoy, take your pick. If I'm doing my math correctly, you get ~16,800 miles (with class of service bonus), or 5.96cpm eqm.
Haven't tried with stopovers, and tough enough trying to build a 8 segment trip on big O.
Unfortunately I can't take advantage of this fare, I'm kicking myself for buying a LX C fare to ATH last week, thought I had a good thanksgiving deal, guess not...
Haven't tried with stopovers, and tough enough trying to build a 8 segment trip on big O.
Unfortunately I can't take advantage of this fare, I'm kicking myself for buying a LX C fare to ATH last week, thought I had a good thanksgiving deal, guess not...
Jul 24, 2012 | 8:14 pm
#1452
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: LAX/RSW
Programs: UA MM, Marriott Lifetime Titanium
Posts: 1,504
UA Global First LAX-LHR for 3600ai over Thanksgiving.
Jul 24, 2012 | 8:15 pm
#1453
Join Date: Jul 2008
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Note that, at least I looked at X=FRA, CLT-PHL-FRA is only 1 flight mile and 50 total (with 500-mi minimums and without COS bonus anyway) extra miles over CLT-FRA according to what I looked up. I'd rather skip the stop in PHL at the cost of <1% of the total miles and avoid all of those delays and fly directly from CLT. I'd guess many of the other X airports are similar.
Jul 24, 2012 | 8:21 pm
#1454
Join Date: Jul 2005
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Note that, at least I looked at X=FRA, CLT-PHL-FRA is only 1 flight mile and 50 total (with 500-mi minimums and without COS bonus anyway) extra miles over CLT-FRA according to what I looked up. I'd rather skip the stop in PHL at the cost of <1% of the total miles and avoid all of those delays and fly directly from CLT. I'd guess many of the other X airports are similar.
FRA lets you stay in *A, the other transit points put you on EI (even through MUC).
Thanks for the additional info, TATL through CLT gives you more time to enjoy Envoy class.
Jul 24, 2012 | 8:24 pm
#1455
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Trenton, NJ (PHL, EWR)
Programs: A3 Gold, BA Bronze
Posts: 1,633
You can input a stopover in FRA for an extra $50, FYI.