Hit the Wall!
 

we just cancelled BOS/BCN executive first tickets this week on AC. The penalty is a hefty $400@ and we bought them r/t ai for about $1800US from a recommendation we found here in FT.

when does MRing become too much?

a thread of four r/ts to HNL a couple months ago drew many comments, including one from me. Is it worth it?

since early Feb we have flown 85000 miles on UA and 67,000 on DL.
no pure MRs, with a couple exceptions.

I am unwilling to climb down another jetway, even for a flatbed cross-pond seat. I am going to drive for awhile and sit on the beach. :-)

Have any of you hit the wall and just had it with flying/traveling/MRing?

I have not. I travel 95% for business and it is 2 or 3 weeks per month. I want very badly to try the run to JNB this year at some point. I did my first ever LONG MR this year to IST overnight and back. I loved it - but as I survey your numbers, very impressive and yet I can understand why you might want to skip a pre-flight safety demo for a weekend.

Asking as a poster is it the cancellation fee that propelled you toward this wall or was it merely the last push in that direction? And if it was the last push why was it as the fee should've been a known consequence as presumably you received and read the fare rules at time of booking.

I took up mileage running three years ago with the goal of hitting 1MM lifetime flight miles on UA. With that accomplished ^ I am re-assessing the hobby. And yes I hit the wall at the beginning of this year when I did mileage runs 9 weekends in a row :eek: and traveled more than enough miles to circle the globe twice.

I think I will carry on for now - until the MR worthy fares dry up, or UA changes its FF program and adds a revenue based component.


SunLover

The fee made it a harder decision to cancel
 

I found the fare on FT and called and booked in on the phone. I do not recall anyone telling me that the cancellation fee was $400@, although they prob told me there was a cancellation fee. I would have remembered the especially high cancellation fee.
I actually like flying AC, and have a place in PEI as well as NY-area.
But my excitement over the fare and flying upfront in a flat bed to BCN (a place I love) was exceeded by my exhaustion.

I don't understand... you can sit on the beach near Barcelona while having a nice dinner every evening and soak in some culture as well.

if I could figure out how to get there without flying again, I would
 

lol. I know. I would be reacting the same way to anyone who was crazy enough to give up front row flatbed executive class (on a two class cabin flight) seats to a place they loved and pay $800 for the privilege of doing it.
But, sometimes the process (security lines, even with 1k status), hurrying up and waiting, in-flight meals, tiny bathrooms, crying babies and people with loud coughs that they don't cover, delays, changes in equipment and long, long flights and layovers, and airport restaurants, and not being allowed to carry bottled water or suntan lotion without checking a bag) takes its toll.
I sound like a cranky old woman...
but am just tired of flying.

same here. with the super MR deals gone, i'm perfectly happy staying home on weekends :p

Take a TATL cruise from NYC to BCN @:-) ;)

I understand the feelings of exhaustion after flying so many miles over a short period of time. I can relate to your decision and would be making the very same decision in canceling the flights despite any penalties.

See bolding - How did you decide you were at that point? My heads spins when I think about the cost of going to a place I really (really) want to see rather than just back the a place I've seen 4 or 5 times on a cheap or tricked fare. One trip to more ideal or multiple trips to less ideal - a real first world problem, who complains about having to visit a place like Paris too often?

Cheers