WAS to HKG Upgradable $1500
Dec 3, 2012, 10:57 pm
#16
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This is actually pretty expensive out of the East Coast. JFK-HKG could be $800-$900 on CX even near Christmas. A flight from DCA-JFK should not cost more than a $100 ($75 OW or $150 RT most of the time). So this ticket via ORD (where anything that could go wrong WILL go wrong during winter time) for $1500 is pretty expensive IMO.
Dec 4, 2012, 1:54 am
#17
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This is actually pretty expensive out of the East Coast. JFK-HKG could be $800-$900 on CX even near Christmas. A flight from DCA-JFK should not cost more than a $100 ($75 OW or $150 RT most of the time). So this ticket via ORD (where anything that could go wrong WILL go wrong during winter time) for $1500 is pretty expensive IMO.
The W fare rate of ~$1,500 for EWR-HKG has been readily availabe all year and is nothing unusual. I have been monitoring that route and have seen it for as low as $1,336 on select days.
SunLover
Dec 4, 2012, 12:37 pm
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As a guideline, I would say ~ 7.5cpm or $750ai for 10k miles flown.
I think this is the range that W fares become more interesting, just from a cpm standpoint.
Using NYC-HKG as an example, if you connect in SFO (JFK-SFO-HKG-SFO-JFK ~$1400ai) the cpm would be around 7.5. ** I am certainly not saying that you should fly this route (over the nonstop EWR-HKG for example) just to get the extra ~3k mileage. Again, I am ignoring other considerations when using a GPU (plane,length of flight,seat,upgrade space, etc.). **
Dec 5, 2012, 4:45 pm
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Based on my limited experience with these fares,
As a guideline, I would say ~ 7.5cpm or $750ai for 10k miles flown.
I think this is the range that W fares become more interesting, just from a cpm standpoint.
Using NYC-HKG as an example, if you connect in SFO (JFK-SFO-HKG-SFO-JFK ~$1400ai) the cpm would be around 7.5. ** I am certainly not saying that you should fly this route (over the nonstop EWR-HKG for example) just to get the extra ~3k mileage. Again, I am ignoring other considerations when using a GPU (plane,length of flight,seat,upgrade space, etc.). **
As a guideline, I would say ~ 7.5cpm or $750ai for 10k miles flown.
I think this is the range that W fares become more interesting, just from a cpm standpoint.
Using NYC-HKG as an example, if you connect in SFO (JFK-SFO-HKG-SFO-JFK ~$1400ai) the cpm would be around 7.5. ** I am certainly not saying that you should fly this route (over the nonstop EWR-HKG for example) just to get the extra ~3k mileage. Again, I am ignoring other considerations when using a GPU (plane,length of flight,seat,upgrade space, etc.). **
Also being on a pmUA route is better than pmCO