"Good Deal" premium fares
May 18, 2009, 9:21 am
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Cities in Honduras and Panama were also available, last time I checked.
May 18, 2009, 10:28 am
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I am flying on 5/30-5/31 Sat-Sun but could not get the red eye at this price - perhaps too soon. Maybe somebody else can dig it out, but I could not get one until 6/20 and I am not sure i will have time then. I know I am available the weekend of 5/30 so will have to get up at 4 AM and fly with an overnight.
May 18, 2009, 11:45 am
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.... Im afraid not anymore... 
EK is now flying a triple class service between HKG and BKK. It's former two class service had some spectacularly low b-class fare, which seemed to go away along with the aircraft change.
But wait!
Checking for flights in May and June, the following fares are available.
B-Class, 2129 HKD ($275 USD) RT
F-Class, 3129 HKG ($404 USD) RT
The aircraft is the 777-300, not the A380, so I do not believe the f-class will have the new personal cabins; rather, I believe they will have the mini-suites.
Still, a cheap fare ...
But wait!
Checking for flights in May and June, the following fares are available.
B-Class, 2129 HKD ($275 USD) RT
F-Class, 3129 HKG ($404 USD) RT
The aircraft is the 777-300, not the A380, so I do not believe the f-class will have the new personal cabins; rather, I believe they will have the mini-suites.
Still, a cheap fare ...
May 18, 2009, 11:47 am
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I did a quick search & found nothing.
I don't expect myself to read 200 plus pages of the good deal premium thread.
Originally Posted by MatthewLAX
Correct. This is the regular price on the route.
May 18, 2009, 11:51 am
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EK is now flying a triple class service between HKG and BKK. It's former two class service had some spectacularly low b-class fare, which seemed to go away along with the aircraft change.
But wait!
Checking for flights in May and June, the following fares are available.
B-Class, 2129 HKD ($275 USD) RT
F-Class, 3129 HKG ($404 USD) RT
The aircraft is the 777-300, not the A380, so I do not believe the f-class will have the new personal cabins; rather, I believe they will have the mini-suites.
Still, a cheap fare ...
But wait!
Checking for flights in May and June, the following fares are available.
B-Class, 2129 HKD ($275 USD) RT
F-Class, 3129 HKG ($404 USD) RT
The aircraft is the 777-300, not the A380, so I do not believe the f-class will have the new personal cabins; rather, I believe they will have the mini-suites.
Still, a cheap fare ...
May 18, 2009, 11:54 am
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May 18, 2009, 12:01 pm
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Yes sorry. I was looking BKK-HKG-BKK
May 18, 2009, 12:49 pm
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They do it automatically... if no A available you get booked in Y. Careful with that, there is no error message and you should read your itinerary clear before hitting the purchase button.
May 18, 2009, 1:02 pm
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The good thing is that you would think the price jumps if you have more F legs in the itin but that wasn't the case when I was plugging in dates for the MR in F. You can select the most F cabins on your legs and it stays right at about 544 or so.
Also the combinations displayed can get you up to 1k more miles per leg. There is a lax-sfo-iad-tpa leg which is well over 3k while others are barely over 2k.
May 18, 2009, 1:32 pm
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May 18, 2009, 1:42 pm
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May 18, 2009, 3:24 pm
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when I try to piece something together in multi-city united.com always gets hick-ups and gives me an error. no flights are displayed if I search for ONT-IAD, IAD-TPA, TPA-ORD, ORD-ONT and 'first lowest'. if I make it a simple RT ONT-TPA is shows a bunch of flights (all options I don't want) with several of them not selectable (I have to presume because they don't have a First Cabin as Y is certainly available). I'll keep trying but it's been not working pretty consistently.
May 18, 2009, 3:27 pm
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May 18, 2009, 3:28 pm
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when I try to piece something together in multi-city united.com always gets hick-ups and gives me an error. no flights are displayed if I search for ONT-IAD, IAD-TPA, TPA-ORD, ORD-ONT and 'first lowest'. if I make it a simple RT ONT-TPA is shows a bunch of flights (all options I don't want) with several of them not selectable (I have to presume because they don't have a First Cabin as Y is certainly available). I'll keep trying but it's been not working pretty consistently.