[Premium Fare Gone]: Cathay J: ORD - MLE/CMB RT ~$2,600
Mar 10, 2018, 11:01 am
#31
Join Date: Jan 2018
Posts: 1
Also thanks to the OP. I purchased this for a June trip to the Maldives with a multi day stopover in Hong Kong. It will be great to check Maldives off the bucket list.
Mar 10, 2018, 1:03 pm
#32
Join Date: Dec 2014
Posts: 356
I am also interested in this now that I realized I was completely wrong in thinking I could use AA miles for a CX upgrade. Is the process to create an AsiaMiles account, transfer in the MR points and hope the upgrade waitlist goes through? Any tips are much appreciated.
Also thanks to the OP. I purchased this for a June trip to the Maldives with a multi day stopover in Hong Kong. It will be great to check Maldives off the bucket list.
Also thanks to the OP. I purchased this for a June trip to the Maldives with a multi day stopover in Hong Kong. It will be great to check Maldives off the bucket list.
Mar 10, 2018, 1:35 pm
#33
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: W29
Programs: It's Complicated...
Posts: 6,811
Be careful on this one. I am seeing the fare available on GF but when go to book on CX or Orbitz it is gone. Not sure what is up with that but you may see some false positive results initially.
Mar 10, 2018, 2:40 pm
#34
Join Date: Mar 2018
Posts: 56
Priceline coming in even cheaper than GF
Looks like there are multiple flight options on Priceline in the low $2,400s.
Amex IAP doesn’t offer any discounts and after their booking fee, makes it worth it to forgo the extra points and just take 3x with the CSR.
Amex IAP doesn’t offer any discounts and after their booking fee, makes it worth it to forgo the extra points and just take 3x with the CSR.
Mar 12, 2018, 4:12 am
#36
Join Date: Aug 2011
Programs: QR - plat (OWE), AI - Maharajah (* gold), Bonvoy - plat, HH - gold, Shangri La - jade, Sixt - plat
Posts: 231
Thanks to other flyer talkers who have added positively to the conversation, I know the travel timelines now. Thanks OP; the missus and I will be vacationing in India and the Maldives this summer.
Mar 12, 2018, 6:17 pm
#39
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Chattanooga, TN
Programs: Hertz and Best Western, a free agent in all other respects
Posts: 384
There is a 10 day live aboard whale watching trip in the Maldives next month. And I'm going to be on it!! Hot damn. With a stopover in HK so I can have a cocktail in Macao. Thanks OP!
FWIW, I found 3/28-4/11 yesterday (Sunday in the US) for $2776. Would have been $2575 if I returned one day earlier.
FWIW, I found 3/28-4/11 yesterday (Sunday in the US) for $2776. Would have been $2575 if I returned one day earlier.
Mar 13, 2018, 1:31 am
#40
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Miami BCH., FLorida
Programs: AA:EXP, GLD:A.Argen., Etihad; Turk SIL:UA, VS; HOT.GLD:ClubC, Loews, SPG; PL:Ritz, Hil, IHG, BtW., R
Posts: 261
Slightly mean spirited.
I am never to lazy to check for myself, but there are people in this community that probably know what "GF" to check means. I personally have N O idea. It could be helpful to remember that if someone is shown how to fish, they can feed themselves for life...I know you are not my travel agent either. I was not too lazy to check "booking engine GF" but could only find Gulf Air, which I have personally never used.
If this is it, great, I will never ask again.
Have a good day.
RSR
Mar 13, 2018, 2:11 am
#41
Join Date: Aug 2016
Location: DTW / SJC
Programs: AA EXP, DL DM, Marriott Titanium, Hyatt Globalist, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 764
I am never to lazy to check for myself, but there are people in this community that probably know what "GF" to check means. I personally have N O idea. It could be helpful to remember that if someone is shown how to fish, they can feed themselves for life...I know you are not my travel agent either. I was not too lazy to check "booking engine GF" but could only find Gulf Air, which I have personally never used.
If this is it, great, I will never ask again.
Have a good day.
RSR
If this is it, great, I will never ask again.
Have a good day.
RSR
Mar 13, 2018, 3:37 am
#42
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Seattle & Seoul.... and now, Maastricht....
Programs: UA Mileage Plus, NWA WorldPerks deserter, Alaska Airlines Something-er-Other...
Posts: 1,885
Mar 13, 2018, 11:38 pm
#43
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: San Francisco, CA
Programs: Delta Gold, UA Gold, Marriott Titanium, Hilton Diamond, IHG Platinum
Posts: 275
Route thru and get off at SFO on the return?
Still a bunch of dates available. I see I can route thru SFO on the return (with CMB-HKG-SFO and SFO-ORD treated as separate segments). This seems ideal as SFO is my home airport.
Any issues if I get off at SFO and don't continue to ORD? I'm going to credit to Alaska (currently MVP and can make MVP Gold with this and other trips). Any chance I don't get full mileage credit? I'd check in for SFO-ORD and just play dumb. "Yeah I was on the flight!"
Any issues if I get off at SFO and don't continue to ORD? I'm going to credit to Alaska (currently MVP and can make MVP Gold with this and other trips). Any chance I don't get full mileage credit? I'd check in for SFO-ORD and just play dumb. "Yeah I was on the flight!"
Mar 14, 2018, 8:18 am
#44
Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: san francisco
Posts: 236
State department warning
It doesn't look particularly worrisome as long as you stay on resorts. I wouldn't wander around Malé anyways - no drinking allowed.
It doesn't look particularly worrisome as long as you stay on resorts. I wouldn't wander around Malé anyways - no drinking allowed.
Mar 14, 2018, 8:21 am
#45
Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: san francisco
Posts: 236
State department warning
It doesn't look particularly worrisome as long as you stay on resorts. I wouldn't wander around Malé anyways - no drinking allowed.
It doesn't look particularly worrisome as long as you stay on resorts. I wouldn't wander around Malé anyways - no drinking allowed.
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