skunker

It's on ITA. Move along.

mileageking

read the rules properly, talks about HKG.

ZFW-ATC

Unfortunately, even though you can use HKG, it's not really useful from a cost standpoint. The routings I've looked at are almost double the other, lower cost routings I've found...

Eric

skunker

It also talks about Mexico and booking with LX ticket stock. If you want to route through HKG you will bump the I fare up to a D fare. The most important part
CX connects in BKK on the way to HKG.

mileageking

Good point. Sending you a PM.

abitlost

I have long wanted to visit Sri Lanka and was so excited when the civil war that predates the birth of many flyertalk members was settled. I had great hopes that the country would capitalize on the opportunity to join the mainstream international community that embraces human rights and a free press. I really love travel deals and vacation very opportunistically due to cost concerns but couldn't convince myself into this one due to the government's post-war malfeasance and lack of regard for human rights and journalist freedom. I love to travel and would really like to see everywhere at least once but hesitate to give funds, though mine are quite meager relative to most all who fly paid premium cabins, to a repressive regime. I will wait. While prices may be much higher in the future, it will be a better deal in many non-monetary ways to visit Sri Lanka once the country acknowledges its human rights abuses and has a free press.

http://www.hrw.org/asia/sri-lanka

I post selectively on flyertalk, and this is probably only the first or second time I've done so knowing I'll garner much ire. It disappoints me to rarely see posts on this site that reference moral issues in conjunction with cheap prices. Maybe I am just a weirdo.

NA-Flyer

These round trip fares with the favorable routing of the past went up by almost 60%

Dr. HFH

That explains it. I use this route from time to time. My regular travel agent has been trying to book and ticket my next trip for well over a week, now. He says that he can book it with no problem, but every time he tries to ticket, the computer changes the fare category to the higher priced routing.

Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.

Must...Fly!

Devastated at this news. I was going to run around in F as a graduation gift to myself some time in the near future. Had the routing and flight numbers all set for at least 6 months now but not the funds.

I guess it was not meant to be.

El Puerco Volante

This is upsetting. I agree with previous poster - excessive publicity did no good to this fare. I mean, how could it not die when every week someone brought this fare up in the good deals tread - over and over !

The new fare looks quite useless to me. It's at least +1k OW with significantly reduced routing possibilities. And I can't get any decent price or routing as RT at all.

I would appreciate if someone who managed to get a decent routing and price, OW or RT, on the new fare is kind enough to PM an example to me.

Let's not discuss it in too many details publically, just in case it still can offer decent value.

Regards,

El Puerco Volante.

DLATL777

The most HILARIOUS part of this is that the same bloggers who post screen-shots and literal step-by-step instructions on how to book the fare are on here acting surprised and disappointed. You know who you are, and we all told you the fare would go away, if not by publicity directly than by publicity leading to over-use and manipulation. ^ Great work!

skunker

Like who? Name some names. Show the blogs. I found the fare years go on my own and managed to price out some crazy routings through trial and error. I managed to fly it once in F but was planning another roundtrip for next year to qualify for AA. MH had opened up some nice possibilities.

There is still value in the fare, you just have to be more creative and temper your expectations.

All good things come to an end. This one will be put next to all the other exCMB fares that have gone away.

tcook052

While I fully and completely understand both sides of the debate it's one best continued in the External Miles and Points Resources forum which was created for exactly these types of blog discussions.

Thank you,

tcook052
Mileage Run Forum Moderator

yosithezet

I'm game to book at r/t. I can't decipher the rules for the return. I put in some routes transpac and transatl and the price jumps by 4X or so. Any clues?

The only way back I can see goes through the gulf.

ZFW-ATC

You have to cross the Atlantic, on an AA flight number, both ways.
Hope that helps.

Eric