Need help
Oct 24, 2011 | 3:59 pm
#1
Original Poster
Join Date: Oct 2011
Posts: 1
Need help
I'm looking for help in someone helping me find a fare for DEN or LAX to TPE.
Anyone? Thanks.
Anyone? Thanks.
Oct 24, 2011 | 4:04 pm
#2
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: MSP
Programs: DL Gold, DL MM 8/22/16!
Posts: 2,563
www.kayak.com is always a good start. If you mention your dates and the best fare you've found, sometimes the competitive people here will show you one better.
Romelle
And don't forget to check the airline sites directly. They can have specials not available in the more general sites.
Romelle
And don't forget to check the airline sites directly. They can have specials not available in the more general sites.
Oct 24, 2011 | 4:10 pm
#3
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Oakland, CA
Posts: 1,247
Check your local travel agency. They are helpful.
Oct 24, 2011 | 4:26 pm
#4
Suspended
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: San Diego
Programs: Delta PLAT, Marriot Plat, IHG Plat, SPG Gold, A couple of other airlines - pee on
Posts: 623
Try the internet.
Oct 24, 2011 | 4:45 pm
#5
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: YYZ
Programs: AC *P
Posts: 1,812
Have you read http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/milea...ums-work.html?
Oct 24, 2011 | 4:55 pm
#6
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: WAS
Programs: UA Silver
Posts: 51
Haha
Tough crowd.
Oct 24, 2011 | 5:00 pm
#7
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: MSP
Programs: DL Gold, DL MM 8/22/16!
Posts: 2,563
I actually had a weak moment, reached for ITA, and then remembered we don't even have dates.
So - random selection - next Jan/Feb - Air China - $831.
Romelle
So - random selection - next Jan/Feb - Air China - $831.
Romelle
Oct 24, 2011 | 6:36 pm
#8
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Sydney - Australia
Programs: BD, QF, QR/EY/GF & HH Gold/SPG, Hertz#1G
Posts: 11,079
Welcome to FlyerTalk!
To get the best fare to a specific trip on a specific date, you are best to do the usual search of online booking sites, airlines and your travel agents.
Mileage Run Deals forum is only for sharing low-cost fares just for earning miles or status. Mileage Run Discussion is for discussing the details of those fares.
We don't offer a trael-agent style service of finding the lowest cost fare.
FlyerTalk has a lot of discussions about tools to help you find low fares, so use the search function or google site:flyertalk.com for terms like ITA Search and Kayak.
Here's the info regarding your fare request. Note the green text.
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/13766346-post6.html
What the Mileage Run Forum expects out of you:
We expect you to treat others with respect – If you can’t play nicely, you may be asked to leave.
Think before you post – if your comments are off-topic and don’t have anything to do with the original posters questions or comment, then please refrain from posting. There’s never any reason to bash another poster who may have made a mistake that you yourself may have made when you were new to Flyertalk.
If you have any questions about this, please feel free to refer to Flyertalk’s Guidelines & Rules section.
If you require any clarification on any of the points made, feel free to send a Private Message to one of the Mileage Run Moderators – rcs85551, BiziBB or jpdx.
Any one of us is more than willing to help you out – in fact, that is part of our roles as volunteer moderators for this board. We don’t get paid to be here – we’re here because we love Flyertalk and we’re here to serve.
We expect you to share with others & post your insight and great fares you find. As you spend more time on Flyertalk & in the Mileage Run forum, you’ll soon become an expert on a lot of subjects. Amongst our non-FT friends, a lot of us FT’ers are the best when it comes to planning vacations, doing routings, and getting great fares & deals.
However, when it comes to Flyertalk folks, there are many people out there who are just way better than we are when it comes to finding great fares & maximizing routings. The only reason a lot of us know & understand what we do is because of contributions & posts created by others. Some of us have been able to take advantage of spectacular fare deals due to others letting us know about it.
If you find a really great fare, feel free to post it in this forum.
We’d appreciate it if you titled your fare with the city pair, the base fare, the available carrier, and any other pertinent information.
For example, to post about a $100 base fare (+ taxes & + fees) from New York City to Los Angeles on United Airlines with no minimum stay, you may want to title your post as follows:
NYC-LAX 100.00++ on UA – no min. stay
Then, in the post, you may want to outline other points about the post, for example fare rules if available, what booking class its in, whether it’s valid only on Tuesdays & Wednesdays, whether there are any strange restrictions, etc. Some FT'ers have requested that you also put available dates in the thread titles too - so, if there's a date range & you know what it is, please feel free to post in the thread title as well.
Just a quick note - this is a public forum - which means that not only FT'ers read it, but the airlines read it too.
Be cautious about explicitly posting routing rules & try to refrain from posting them the thread title as it will attract airline yield management attention.
A lucrative route (and this doesn't exist), IAD to SFO via ANC & HNL could be lost if the airlines get wind of people taking advantage of these routes.
Recent examples of routing rule shutdowns: CO via Florida, AA limited routes on some specials, NW transfer limits, DL transfer limits, and most recently NW reduced routing rules on special K fares.
The more the airlines realize mileage runners can benefit, the harder it is to benefit from their rules.
We expect you utilize the search function – whether you’re new or old to Flyertalk, everyone has questions sometime or another.
As said above, chances are its been asked before.
Try using the search function first. It only takes a few moments.
We expect you not to post questions regarding specific itineraries here – the Mileage Run forum is not the place for questions regarding specific itineraries.
Why?
Well to answer that question, we must first look at what exactly is a true mileage run? The forum is described as:
This means that specific itineraries – itineraries that are being done with a purpose other than just to earn the miles are not really welcomed here.
In other words, if you're taking a specific trip and want help with routing to find creative ways to get those 14 segments in between SFO and LAX, post away.
Please don't ask for help in finding the best fare for such a trip. Posts of that nature will be deleted without warning. There may be some exceptions made occasionally for newer Flyertalkers – in which case, the post will be moved most likely to Travelbuzz or the airline specific forum with a redirect link left in the Mileage Run forum, however, for most of our members who have been here a while & who we feel should know better, your threads will just be deleted.
If you have a question as to whether or not a post is appropriate, feel free to send a Private Message to the moderators.
We expect you to make a reasonable attempt to post in the correct forum – In March, 2007, the Mileage Run forum was restructured by the TalkBoard to provide a little more organization. The result is that we now have the Mileage Run Deals forum, with Hotel Deals and Mileage Run Discussion as subforums.
The only thing that should be posted in the Mileage Run Deals forum are currently-available deals.
Please use the 'Alert Moderator to this post' button to report expired/unavailable/never available fares, which will be moved to Mileage Run Discussion and tagged 'fare gone' in their title.
A new thread should only be posted based on a deal that is available at the time of posting.
Any other discussion, such as tools, requests for assistance (with a mileage run – not for a regular “help me find a low fare” trip), etc, should be posted in the Mileage Run Discussion forum.
A general guideline for topics:
Good in Mileage Run Deals:
1) Airfare deals that offer uniquely high value in terms of either miles/points to $$ or expedited status
2) Discussion within the individual threads of ways to benefit from the deal
3) The threads are not to be used for meta-discussion of general mileage run issues
Good in Mileage Run Discussion:
1) Mileage Run tools
2) MR Clinic/Requests
3) General discussion of mileage runs, such as process, ethics, tips for convincing family, etc.
Good in specialist subthreads (aka megathreads):
1) First/Business class good or great deals? Premium Fares thread in Mileage Run Deals
2) Good fare/sale 'deals', not great enough value as a pure mileage run (a bit more than 3c / mile unit cost)? Good Deals in Economy - city pairs
3) Sharing deals or discussing special savings strategies in fare prices through tricks or tips to 'negotiate' certain ticket charges? Trick It lounge thread
Not appropriate for either Mileage Run forum:
1) What I Did on my Mileage Run (see Trip Reports forum)
2) What Should I Do in XXX on my Mileage Run (see relevant Travel & Dining destinations forum)
3) General travel site problems, such as “ITA is down” (see TravelBuzz!)
4) Who Else Got In On This Deal [a.k.a. let’s all get together]? see (CommunityBuzz!)
******
Okay, now onto the fun stuff!
...
Thanks for taking the time to read this & once again, Welcome to the Mileage Run Forum!
Sincerely,
rcs85551, BiziBB & jpdx
(and mucho thanks to our predecessors who wrote this excellent MR forum introduction!)
The Mileage Run Forum Moderators
We expect you to treat others with respect – If you can’t play nicely, you may be asked to leave.
Think before you post – if your comments are off-topic and don’t have anything to do with the original posters questions or comment, then please refrain from posting. There’s never any reason to bash another poster who may have made a mistake that you yourself may have made when you were new to Flyertalk.
If you have any questions about this, please feel free to refer to Flyertalk’s Guidelines & Rules section.
If you require any clarification on any of the points made, feel free to send a Private Message to one of the Mileage Run Moderators – rcs85551, BiziBB or jpdx.
Any one of us is more than willing to help you out – in fact, that is part of our roles as volunteer moderators for this board. We don’t get paid to be here – we’re here because we love Flyertalk and we’re here to serve.
We expect you to share with others & post your insight and great fares you find. As you spend more time on Flyertalk & in the Mileage Run forum, you’ll soon become an expert on a lot of subjects. Amongst our non-FT friends, a lot of us FT’ers are the best when it comes to planning vacations, doing routings, and getting great fares & deals.
However, when it comes to Flyertalk folks, there are many people out there who are just way better than we are when it comes to finding great fares & maximizing routings. The only reason a lot of us know & understand what we do is because of contributions & posts created by others. Some of us have been able to take advantage of spectacular fare deals due to others letting us know about it.
If you find a really great fare, feel free to post it in this forum.
We’d appreciate it if you titled your fare with the city pair, the base fare, the available carrier, and any other pertinent information.
For example, to post about a $100 base fare (+ taxes & + fees) from New York City to Los Angeles on United Airlines with no minimum stay, you may want to title your post as follows:
NYC-LAX 100.00++ on UA – no min. stay
Then, in the post, you may want to outline other points about the post, for example fare rules if available, what booking class its in, whether it’s valid only on Tuesdays & Wednesdays, whether there are any strange restrictions, etc. Some FT'ers have requested that you also put available dates in the thread titles too - so, if there's a date range & you know what it is, please feel free to post in the thread title as well.
Just a quick note - this is a public forum - which means that not only FT'ers read it, but the airlines read it too.
Be cautious about explicitly posting routing rules & try to refrain from posting them the thread title as it will attract airline yield management attention.
A lucrative route (and this doesn't exist), IAD to SFO via ANC & HNL could be lost if the airlines get wind of people taking advantage of these routes.
Recent examples of routing rule shutdowns: CO via Florida, AA limited routes on some specials, NW transfer limits, DL transfer limits, and most recently NW reduced routing rules on special K fares.
The more the airlines realize mileage runners can benefit, the harder it is to benefit from their rules.
We expect you utilize the search function – whether you’re new or old to Flyertalk, everyone has questions sometime or another.
As said above, chances are its been asked before.
Try using the search function first. It only takes a few moments.
We expect you not to post questions regarding specific itineraries here – the Mileage Run forum is not the place for questions regarding specific itineraries.
Why?
Well to answer that question, we must first look at what exactly is a true mileage run? The forum is described as:
This means that specific itineraries – itineraries that are being done with a purpose other than just to earn the miles are not really welcomed here.
In other words, if you're taking a specific trip and want help with routing to find creative ways to get those 14 segments in between SFO and LAX, post away.
Please don't ask for help in finding the best fare for such a trip. Posts of that nature will be deleted without warning. There may be some exceptions made occasionally for newer Flyertalkers – in which case, the post will be moved most likely to Travelbuzz or the airline specific forum with a redirect link left in the Mileage Run forum, however, for most of our members who have been here a while & who we feel should know better, your threads will just be deleted.
If you have a question as to whether or not a post is appropriate, feel free to send a Private Message to the moderators.
We expect you to make a reasonable attempt to post in the correct forum – In March, 2007, the Mileage Run forum was restructured by the TalkBoard to provide a little more organization. The result is that we now have the Mileage Run Deals forum, with Hotel Deals and Mileage Run Discussion as subforums.
The only thing that should be posted in the Mileage Run Deals forum are currently-available deals.
Please use the 'Alert Moderator to this post' button to report expired/unavailable/never available fares, which will be moved to Mileage Run Discussion and tagged 'fare gone' in their title.
A new thread should only be posted based on a deal that is available at the time of posting.
Any other discussion, such as tools, requests for assistance (with a mileage run – not for a regular “help me find a low fare” trip), etc, should be posted in the Mileage Run Discussion forum.
A general guideline for topics:
Good in Mileage Run Deals:
1) Airfare deals that offer uniquely high value in terms of either miles/points to $$ or expedited status
2) Discussion within the individual threads of ways to benefit from the deal
3) The threads are not to be used for meta-discussion of general mileage run issues
Good in Mileage Run Discussion:
1) Mileage Run tools
2) MR Clinic/Requests
3) General discussion of mileage runs, such as process, ethics, tips for convincing family, etc.
Good in specialist subthreads (aka megathreads):
1) First/Business class good or great deals? Premium Fares thread in Mileage Run Deals
2) Good fare/sale 'deals', not great enough value as a pure mileage run (a bit more than 3c / mile unit cost)? Good Deals in Economy - city pairs
3) Sharing deals or discussing special savings strategies in fare prices through tricks or tips to 'negotiate' certain ticket charges? Trick It lounge thread
Not appropriate for either Mileage Run forum:
1) What I Did on my Mileage Run (see Trip Reports forum)
2) What Should I Do in XXX on my Mileage Run (see relevant Travel & Dining destinations forum)
3) General travel site problems, such as “ITA is down” (see TravelBuzz!)
4) Who Else Got In On This Deal [a.k.a. let’s all get together]? see (CommunityBuzz!)
******
Okay, now onto the fun stuff!
...
Thanks for taking the time to read this & once again, Welcome to the Mileage Run Forum!
Sincerely,
rcs85551, BiziBB & jpdx
(and mucho thanks to our predecessors who wrote this excellent MR forum introduction!)
The Mileage Run Forum Moderators
I'll close this thread but search for the threads discussing ITA and Kayak as they will help you.
Cheers,
BiziBB, Moderator Mileage Run