Saver Award Availability
Mar 11, 2008 | 9:35 pm
#16
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: San Diego, CA
Posts: 1,688
I should point out that we TURNED IN the 2 WBC Saver awards we'd booked around Easter because Lex found some cheap coach seats to pay for...
sigh.
sigh.
Mar 11, 2008 | 9:42 pm
#17
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Upper Midwest
Programs: DL, AA
Posts: 1,677
Persistence is definitely key. Check at least once a day, (twice at most to keep yourself from procrastinating too much,) even after you have booked. Example: I just booked MSP-LHR roundtrip for this summer, saver J one way and saver Y the other. But originally I could only find the saver J, and had to get pass Y on the return leg. But after keeping the search going, a couple days later I found that I could return a day early and get saver Y because a seat had opened up, so I bit the $25 change fee and saved myself the 25k miles.
Mar 12, 2008 | 2:42 pm
#18
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: usa
Posts: 79
It would interesting if people would post something like the following, using similar definitions and as close as possible to the following...to compare how my experience has been with others.
I flew about 20 times to Asia in the past 8 years. 36% of those were free trips (award). Average airfare per trip (including the free ones in the calculation) therefore came out to about $700 per trip. (I didn't include the award booking fees here). I was silver, gold, or platinum during that period. And some of my trips were "rulebuster" (but only on one leg of the trip). I think I made out pretty good! How did i do?
I flew about 20 times to Asia in the past 8 years. 36% of those were free trips (award). Average airfare per trip (including the free ones in the calculation) therefore came out to about $700 per trip. (I didn't include the award booking fees here). I was silver, gold, or platinum during that period. And some of my trips were "rulebuster" (but only on one leg of the trip). I think I made out pretty good! How did i do?