gallen5555

Hello, I regretfully may have to cancel my booking with Hotwire. They just told me over the phone it would be a $200.00 fee to cancel. which is not bad. Has any body cancelled their tickets at this price? Does any body have the full official fare rules besides the ones posted by the ota's? I am flying delta and korean air. ticket issued by korean air.

footastic

dominick

Just got back the other day...zero hiccups! Thanks so much to OP!

island82

Anyone flown this can report earning on Delta? Is it fare basis or class flown?

TYSDoc

island82

Thanks! I have a mixed class ticket, with the domestic flights in economy while the others in business.

TYSDoc

George84

murphy

George84

superbobx2

Just returned from this fare - a great set of flights. There were actually some issues where a leg was cancelled (DL cancelled the ICN-ATL leg) and Korean was able to switch us on to the DPS-ICN-JFK direct all in business (avoiding the last leg economy connection). Trade-off was weird A380 KE seats rather than the DL suites (far worse seating with better service). Walking around the KE A380 upper deck, it's so striking how much wasted space there is - supported by the fact that KE has one of the oldest style business seats with the lowest loads, it's quite befuddling. Hopefully they'll eventually switch to their new staggered suite product which looks much nicer. Also reminds me to note that DL really needs to step up their game with the service levels on this international premium cabin flight, I've usually had good experiences with DL FA's but the ones on our flight were a surly lot. Had to go seek them out to ask for anything to drink (i.e. soda) and they acted like they were doing me a huge favor when they provided it.

When we were trying to switch the flights (Hotwire customer service is TERRIBLE by the way, guaranteed 2-3 hours on the phone to try to solve any small problem) we ended up on a three way call with a Hotwire supervisor and a KE agent who let slip that this fare was actually a mismapping on the part of certain OTA's and was meant to be an econ fare. However KE knew and was honoring the fares. Interesting - don't feel so bad as it's not a crazy fare for DPS and there was a similarly priced fare from KLM available not long after this one.

Ended up with 30k+ MQM and a lot of MQD's as noted above. RDM's for me as silver before the flights (Gold now after) were around 50k.

jbalmuth

Also just returned, and enjoyed 4 excellent flights, our first on KE. The upper deck on the 747-800 (ATL - ICN) is very peaceful, especially in row 18 (with the large open expanse between that row and row 17, due to the emergency door exits). The front 2 rows of the 777 (ICN - DPS) are also very comfortable, especially the wide, unconstrained space for your feet while lying flat.

In general KE offers an excellent service, but could very greatly up their game by offering a meaningful duvet or equivalent for bedding. The single, thin blanket offered was really disappointing. There was also a quirk that I had never before experienced --- the hot towels distributed before each meal were really HOT --- much too much so on more than one occasion. It's easy to let them sit and cool off a bit, but one's first instinct is to unroll it immediately on receipt. Given how all four flights were the same in this regard, I'm surprised to not have previously read about third degree burns suffered by KE's "prestige" passengers. Another "quirk" was in regard to arrival at ICN on the 747-8, and the apparent requirement to have the plane slowly, slowly towed to the terminal. That towing process added at least 20 minutes to the flight, and connecting passengers had cause for concern as the plane appeared to crawl the final 1,000 feet or so. Finally, we were surprised to see how much the routing from ICN back to ATL changed throughout the flight; the original planned routing had us flying well north of Anchorage and then crossing from Canada to the U.S. over Minnesota; throughout the day the the routing kept changing a little further south, such that we eventually never overflew Alaska or Canada at all (entering North America south of Seattle). The tailwinds on the adjusted new route were so strong (our airspeed often exceeded 750 mph) that we arrived at ATL an hour early ^ despite taking this southern route.

Congrats to all that were able to take advantage of these tickets!