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"Good Deals" in Economy Class - Excellent Fares between certain city pairs - 2017

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Mar 14, 2017, 9:31 am

#106

ChrisBub

Join Date: Mar 2017

Location: BRU

Programs: Miles&More SEN; ITA Premium, Asante Gold, IHG Platinum, BAEC Bronze, Accor Silver, Radisson Premier

Posts: 270

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rojo

You mean LIR = Liberia, Costa Rica
LIB = Limbunya, Australia

Yes, sorry, I'm not up to speed on my airport codes. It's Costa Rica

Mar 16, 2017, 12:21 pm

#107

ryandotkr

Join Date: Aug 2014

Posts: 2

I don't know if this counts, but I found a route that yielded 4.8cpm on United from LAX to Osaka with a same day turn around. $628 for 13054 miles, some days are a little bit more expensive than others.

Sample fare, leaving LAX on the 9th of May: https://goo.gl/flights/OaHg

Mar 16, 2017, 1:04 pm

#108

pony_trekker

Join Date: Apr 2016

Posts: 54

UAL EWR-HKG In March $699 RT on a nonstop. 16120 PQM.

Mar 16, 2017, 8:50 pm

#109

Dalat767

Join Date: Mar 2009

Location: Denver, CO

Posts: 791

UA/NH LAX-KUL-LAX $523 r/t
Ex: 5/10-18/17

Mar 18, 2017, 9:30 am

#110

Dalat767

Join Date: Mar 2009

Location: Denver, CO

Posts: 791

AT JFK-MXP-JFK $405 r/t 23-hr layover in CMN
Ex: 5/10-17/17

Mar 18, 2017, 1:31 pm

#111

blueferrari

Join Date: Apr 2014

Location: Indonesia

Posts: 361

was wondering a lot of PR fare is being discussed, turned out they have a sale currently. book until Mar 24.

economy:
https://www.philippineairlines.com/e...exdist_economy

business:
https://www.philippineairlines.com/e...xdist_business

Mar 19, 2017, 11:44 pm

#112

jdaniel

Join Date: Nov 2008

Programs: Diamond - Hilton +Hyatt

Posts: 56

Quote:

Originally Posted by danielm

Thanks for posting. I made use. Did some playing around, but couldn't get it to trigger the pricing unless I used BKK and TYO/FUK/KIX. Any other combinations you found? Had another look today, and the fares are still there, but now with another 0 at the end.

Is something happening in late march to early April? Is this supposed to be high season why are all the fares I looked at so high?

I've been looking at options for germany or eastern europe to south east asia and I have found nothing reasonable, if someone has posted it some place let me know pls.

Mar 20, 2017, 2:14 am

#113

armouredant

Join Date: Aug 2015

Location: London, UK

Programs: BA GGL

Posts: 1,577

Quote:

Originally Posted by jdaniel

Is something happening in late march to early April? Is this supposed to be high season why are all the fares I looked at so high?

Easter breaks, maybe?

Mar 20, 2017, 7:02 am

#114

briancw80

Join Date: Mar 2015

Posts: 173

CMH - KUL, UA/NH, $692; Now thru DEC

CMH - KUL, UA/NH, $692; Now thru DEC (spotty over the summer).

Also available out of CLE and CVG for same price and availability.

Mar 20, 2017, 3:36 pm

#115

irelayer

Join Date: Jan 2014

Posts: 64

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dalat767

UA/NH LAX-KUL-LAX $523 r/t
Ex: 5/10-18/17

Works as an open jaw as well (ex LAX or ex SAN)

SAN-KUL-MNL-LAX ~$433 priced on google (the flights on UA through SFO I picked were not bookable online).

One more chance to ride the Queen of the Skies on UA before they are retired.

Here's a sample (sans the 747 sector) ex-SAN:

SAN-LAX-NRT-KUL
MNL-HND-LAX

https://goo.gl/flights/xFPR

Also you can substitute SIN or BKK for MNL for a negligible difference in fare, which might work better for some people.

-IR

Last edited by irelayer; Mar 20, 2017 at 3:44 pm

Mar 23, 2017, 9:41 am

#116

ChrisBub

Join Date: Mar 2017

Location: BRU

Programs: Miles&More SEN; ITA Premium, Asante Gold, IHG Platinum, BAEC Bronze, Accor Silver, Radisson Premier

Posts: 270

Quote:

Originally Posted by ChrisBub

Hi folks,

Lufthansa has great sub €450 roundtrips over Easter from BRU-FRA-IAH-LIB. IAH-LIB operated by UA. If you prefer flying UA the whole way there are also fares around €410 for the same route.

http://www.momondo.co.uk/flightsearc...false&NA=false

There are also other good deals around this price with the same route but to other Central American countries e.g. Nicaragua, Panama.

Just a small update on this. Even booking K with LH they are now offering me to offer for upgrades to PE and Business. So for example if the lowest bid for PE is accepted for the two long haul flights (FRA-IAH), the total cost would be €610 return (BRU - LIR) and the two PE legs would get the PE miles, which is around 5,000 each way if memory serves.

Also, these deals to Central America seem to be running in May too, though not sure about upgrade possibilities.

Mar 23, 2017, 1:00 pm

#117

Kuchingite

Join Date: Sep 2015

Location: SEA, and KCH, BKK, TYO

Programs: Starbucks and MVP Gold

Posts: 60

FI (Icelandair): PDX-KEF-ZRH-KEF-PDX
$385
overnight on the outbound

Could only see dept for Apr 19, but you might be able to find more.

Mar 23, 2017, 1:05 pm

#118

WorldLux

Join Date: Sep 2015

Programs: LH SEN; BA Gold

Posts: 8,405

Quote:

Originally Posted by ChrisBub

Just a small update on this. Even booking K with LH they are now offering me to offer for upgrades to PE and Business.

I've seen that too, but the lowest possible bid was higher than booking PE in the first place. Same goes for the "fixed price" upgrades to C.

Mar 23, 2017, 3:57 pm

#119

ChrisBub

Join Date: Mar 2017

Location: BRU

Programs: Miles&More SEN; ITA Premium, Asante Gold, IHG Platinum, BAEC Bronze, Accor Silver, Radisson Premier

Posts: 270

Quote:

Originally Posted by WorldLux

I've seen that too, but the lowest possible bid was higher than booking PE in the first place. Same goes for the "fixed price" upgrades to C.

I can't say for sure on all, but when I was booking PE was at least €1,500 return (albeit for all legs). To have it at €600 return in Y with PE on the FRA-IAH and IAH-FRA parts I still feel is a pretty good deal. But perhaps it is so low for PE for May, I haven't checked that.

Mar 24, 2017, 7:53 am

#120

briancw80

Join Date: Mar 2015

Posts: 173

NYC-BCN, $377, AA, Nonstop

NYC-BCN, $377, AA, nonstop, Nov thru Feb.
NYC-BCN, ~$400, nonstop, Sept - Oct.