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http://blogs.wsj.com/searealtime/201...ns-in-myanmar/

Travelers Say Goodbye to Bargains in Myanmar

MrHalliday

Yes, I expect this is a problem.
I am glad I visited in 1978 when you could exchange
a bottle of scotch and a carton of cigs for enough Kyat
to fund the entire week Rangoon-Mandalay-Maymio-Bagan-Rangoon !

And visas were strictly limited to 7 days.
Our departure flight to BKK was delayed 24 hours,
and we still had to be stamped out on schedule
and sleep on the departure lounge floor !

heramato

Actually I was checking hotel prices and I'm a bit surprised.

Savage25

Its just 1000 Golden Circle points vs paying $250 for the Traders Hotel. No brainer.

DWFI

I can see the country of origin of each response and it is timestamped, however to protect your privacy (right?) I can't see IP or specific location.

Since I shortened the URL, analytics, if anyone is interested, are publicly available at this link: http://goo.gl/#analytics/goo.gl/gygMA/all_time

The average RGN purchaser, then, is based in the US, uses a PC, and uses Chrome (I fit all 3!)

Keter

Do you know how distinguish these fares from the 'working' others and how is the fare validation done via the airline system (I have thought it is only inventory that needs to be confirmed by the airline...)?

If too technical for this thread, please feel free to PM me, thanks!

yyzjake

Opodo/KE refund hit my card yesterday, despite my protests to them.

Good news: Thanks to that 50% Amex MR->Avios bonus this month, I've booked the outbound in CX F. ^

My worldwide favourite is LX F, and I very rarely fly premium outside of Star, so I'm excited to see how CX compares.

josephstern

I'm working on my outbound also - are you going beyond HKG on CX?

So, with the refund, how are you planning to get home? Reinstatement?

Guy Betsy

I'm more aware than you'll ever be...(as a TA with close to 30 years experience should know, ya?)... well, it price out ok for me a few weeks back when I fare constructed it..

It does not mean what you think it means. Its just the transpacific portion of the res, really !

Guy Betsy

Come on over to the CX forum and say hi then !

yyzjake

Doubtful I'll go beyond HKG on CX, certainly not without a stopover. For me, this fare wasn't a mileage run, it's an excuse to go go Asia for a few weeks. HKG is one of the places we want to visit.

This was my first OW redemption, and as I understand it, you have to do stopovers as individual segments anyway. I just booked the outbound now because the seats were available on the exact date I wanted to go, and the bonus MR redemption going on this month. It was either UA (or Star) C or CX F for the points I was willing to part with.

As far as getting home, while I will pursue the KE ticket within reason, I do not expect it to be reinstated easily based on my communications with Opodo so far. So I don't have a good answer for you yet.

As a last resort, with all of these types of promotional fares, a good relationship with American Express comes in handy in foreign countries should you need to buy a ticket home. You can always sort the details out once you're home.


I most certainly will!

Axey

In the very elementary, this is how fares prices, yes. But not when it has flight application restrictions limiting the carriers on the fare component. If this fare was constructed (BKK-YVR with a RGN-BKK add-on) it would work fine since you can catch a DL code all the way from BKK to YVR. But since the fare component points are RGN and YVR, it will not work.

Keter

Is the command pricing error somewhat specific? If so can you post it here? I am really interested to improve my knowledge in all this stuff.

One other things to understand - is how to read 'voluntary changes' portion... To me the text is often contradictory or it has too much freedom (ie too many 'or's).

Keter

So, how do we read 'OR's and 'AND's in fare rules? If we read those as in normal life then the following is true:

1) indeed the restriction for DL flights can be forfeited being linked by 'OR'
2) this fare could not have been autopriced several weeks ago because of transfers restrictions (were same as now; just checked):

OR there has been a mismatch between the fare text and autopricing programming - I have seen a couple of examples but these are really rare.

FrankTalk

I don't see anything magical with this rule. Unlimited online on DL (DL-DL) AND (one either XX-DL/DL-XX anywhere OR one XX-YY in TC3) per direction. Still I would think it doesn't matter squat if you can only fly on DL due to other rules.

Could you please paste the full flight restrictions section for the RGN fare?