May 21, 2013, 12:18 pm
Last edit by: Sykes
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Good Deal Premium Fares 2013
Nov 7, 2013, 9:03 am
#2071
Join Date: May 2009
Location: IND || CMI
Programs: AA EXP 1M, Marriott LT Platinum, Hyatt Platinum, Hilton Gold, Hertz President Circle
Posts: 631
AALAX Mileage Run (premium)
To finish off an EXP challenge, I just booked the following route. The benefits of this route is IND, CMH, RDU all give double RDM, and with three city pairs you get a bonus 5,000 miles on top of it. Couple that with the accelerators (elite, and 1.5x for higher class fares), and if you use a Citibank card. It becomes a nice mile pump. Total Miles is 12,015 for the route below (of course I have a personal reason to terminate in ORD, but you could drop back to IND for even more miles .... All flights are "P" ....
Base = 12,015
AALAX Bonus = 20,544 + 5,000 = 25,544
Fare Bonus = 6,008
Elite = 24,030
Credit Card = 5,791
EQP = 18,023
IND-LAX-RDU-LAX-CMH-LAX-ORD = 73,388 miles
Cost of the route was ~$2895.35
Base = 12,015
AALAX Bonus = 20,544 + 5,000 = 25,544
Fare Bonus = 6,008
Elite = 24,030
Credit Card = 5,791
EQP = 18,023
IND-LAX-RDU-LAX-CMH-LAX-ORD = 73,388 miles
Cost of the route was ~$2895.35
Nov 7, 2013, 9:07 am
#2072
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Sep 1999
Location: New York, NY, USA
Posts: 12,483
Nov 7, 2013, 9:09 am
#2073
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: SF
Programs: UA MM, AA 2MM, Bonvoy LTP, HH Dia
Posts: 1,132
Nov 7, 2013, 10:35 am
#2074
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Northern Calif./Eastern Ida.
Programs: Amethyst Premier Plutonium Medallion
Posts: 20,648
Nov 7, 2013, 3:08 pm
#2075
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: LAX, SIN, CGK
Programs: UA, AA EXP
Posts: 201
To finish off an EXP challenge, I just booked the following route. The benefits of this route is IND, CMH, RDU all give double RDM, and with three city pairs you get a bonus 5,000 miles on top of it. Couple that with the accelerators (elite, and 1.5x for higher class fares), and if you use a Citibank card. It becomes a nice mile pump. Total Miles is 12,015 for the route below (of course I have a personal reason to terminate in ORD, but you could drop back to IND for even more miles .... All flights are "P" ....
Base = 12,015
AALAX Bonus = 20,544 + 5,000 = 25,544
Fare Bonus = 6,008
Elite = 24,030
Credit Card = 5,791
EQP = 18,023
IND-LAX-RDU-LAX-CMH-LAX-ORD = 73,388 miles
Cost of the route was ~$2895.35
Base = 12,015
AALAX Bonus = 20,544 + 5,000 = 25,544
Fare Bonus = 6,008
Elite = 24,030
Credit Card = 5,791
EQP = 18,023
IND-LAX-RDU-LAX-CMH-LAX-ORD = 73,388 miles
Cost of the route was ~$2895.35
but i guess EXP is worth that much
Nov 7, 2013, 9:28 pm
#2076
Join Date: Jan 2009
Posts: 1,621
Now if that route came in at $1500, there would be a few takers.
Nov 7, 2013, 10:45 pm
#2077
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: London (~75% of the year).
Programs: AA PPro
Posts: 477
Malaysia airlines sales from Indonesia/Vietname/Australia
I flew Bali to Europe on Malaysia Airliness a few weeks back for ~£1650 (~$2600). Which given I needed to fly that route and the alternatives (I'd pay that to fly premium economy normally) was a very good deal for me. The sale is back: http://www.malaysiaairlines.com/id/e...f-the-day.html
There's an easy class/destination/origin filter box on the right to make searching the offers easy. Not sure how well priced any of the other routes are.
FYI: I used the multi-city option to fly out of Amsterdam instead of London. Same base fare without penalty for the open jaw but you save the ~£200 in taxes for leaving long haul premium from the UK. Instead I spent half that to get a flight to Amsterdam the previous day and an airbnb night: got to see the city a little + catch up with friends.
There's an easy class/destination/origin filter box on the right to make searching the offers easy. Not sure how well priced any of the other routes are.
FYI: I used the multi-city option to fly out of Amsterdam instead of London. Same base fare without penalty for the open jaw but you save the ~£200 in taxes for leaving long haul premium from the UK. Instead I spent half that to get a flight to Amsterdam the previous day and an airbnb night: got to see the city a little + catch up with friends.
Nov 8, 2013, 1:40 am
#2078
Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 4,859
Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's like less then 1/5th of EXP. There are a lot more way to get the same effect for less money, even flying in international premium cabin (with less RDM for sure, but much more comfortable).
Nov 8, 2013, 2:07 am
#2079
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Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: PHX
Programs: AS 75K; UA 1MM; Hyatt Globalist; Marriott LTP; Hilton Diamond (Aspire)
Posts: 56,478
UA SFO-SJU lie-flats $1111 Z fare
SFO-SJU $1111 Z fare. Friday night red-eye departure on the 764 to IAD. Sunday or Monday return through ORD on the 772. Possible CPU to GF on the ORD-SFO leg.
UA1067 SFO-IAD, UA1498 IAD-SJU
UA1718 SJU-ORD, UA555 ORD-SFO
UA1067 SFO-IAD, UA1498 IAD-SJU
UA1718 SJU-ORD, UA555 ORD-SFO
Nov 8, 2013, 2:36 am
#2080
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: BHX
Programs: BA GGL CCR GfL, SQ Gold, Hyatt Glob, HH Diamond, Marriott Plat, Cafe Nero Loyalty Card (7 Stamps)
Posts: 7,330
It's an EXP challenge, where you pay AA for a chance to fly, say 25% of the EXP miles within a couple of months, and if you succeed you get full EXP status.
Nov 8, 2013, 2:54 am
#2081
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: VIE, BUD, PRG
Programs: LH SEN, DL Plat
Posts: 332
Oman air ex CMB
Oman air has a 20% C sales from CMB, in example MXP/ZRH return under 1100 EUR in business.
You must buy before 20th Nov, and fly in 2013.
You must buy before 20th Nov, and fly in 2013.
Last edited by ben63; Nov 9, 2013 at 3:48 am
Nov 8, 2013, 3:17 am
#2082
Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: London, UK
Programs: Ronin - churn and burn
Posts: 701
Not bad, given that Oman air J cabin looks an awful lot like KE F 
Nov 8, 2013, 5:59 am
#2083
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: London. Or a plane.
Programs: "Only" 50,000 TPs until BA GGLfL
Posts: 2,779
Nov 9, 2013, 8:11 pm
#2084
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: PHX
Programs: AAexp, AC75k, HertzPC, NationalEE, Accor/MariottP, Hilton/HyattG
Posts: 3,614
Another good one from YEG!
YEG-PVR, YEG-CUN, YEG-SJD , open all next year it seems for around $870-$940 R/T in J, all on UA for around 6CPM with CoS bonus
Routing through ORD and LAX is best, but you can codeshare on AC and fly YYZ/IAH instead for a few hundred miles less(but better lounges and in flight food).
YEG-PVR, YEG-CUN, YEG-SJD , open all next year it seems for around $870-$940 R/T in J, all on UA for around 6CPM with CoS bonus
Routing through ORD and LAX is best, but you can codeshare on AC and fly YYZ/IAH instead for a few hundred miles less(but better lounges and in flight food).
Last edited by SKYEG; Nov 9, 2013 at 8:45 pm
Nov 9, 2013, 8:36 pm
#2085
Join Date: Sep 2010
Posts: 2,233
AV: DTW-GRU ~$1914ai (D)
Sample:
Dec 5-7 DTW(UA)-IAD-BOG-GRU-BOG-IAD(UA)-DTW ~$1914ai (D) (10898mi ~17.6cpm)
-Through EOS. (World Cup dates for much more $)
-FOR ROUND TRIP FARES.
Sample:
Dec 5-7 DTW(UA)-IAD-BOG-GRU-BOG-IAD(UA)-DTW ~$1914ai (D) (10898mi ~17.6cpm)
-Through EOS. (World Cup dates for much more $)
-FOR ROUND TRIP FARES.