Would be all over this if it was OW, but even as ST its very tempting. Too bad AF A380 still has this crappy angle flats.

Try looking at Travelocity. Seems like they have access to different inventory than Orbitz and Expedia does. I managed to book two trips, one over July 4 from LAX-CDG and another in the 2nd half of September from SFO-FLR. Both on AF 777, and they weren't even pulling up on the other OTAs.

MSP-MXP possibility
 

I was just fantasizing with this, but found a Aug 15-Aug 29 MSP-MXP for $1640. Business class. By selecting just one night and sorting on price when I was supposed to choose the hotel, I found one that added $0.

MSP so rarely gets these deals. Hope somebody can enjoy it.

So, I called Orbitz during non-US business hours. The overseas reps told me the maximum length of stay is 27 days or 26 nights. They did not even bother to see if they could extend the length of stay.

Did anyone manage to extend this beyond the 27 day limit?

I was told that's just the limit that hotels allow people to book on one reservation. No idea if that's true or not but that's what's being said and that they couldn't do anything about it either.

It is possible to do lots of things with the hotels, just not directly with Orbitz, but you may be able to make revisions to the hotels in your initial booking. While you can't do it online, call Delta Vacations. One of their agents should be able to customize the required number of nights for each hotel and book hotels in multiple destinations.

Here, by the way, are the current minimum requirements for booking a Delta Vacations Air+Hotel or Air+Car vacation...

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Any *A fares ex-SFO or anywhere ex-west coast that are less than an extra 500 pp?

EDIT: The information below might not be accurate for partner marketed unpublished fares. It is definitely not accurate for unpublished Delta marketed flights.

you need the marketing carrier (the two letters before the flight number on your ticket) and the fare class. Operating carrier is irrelevant.

Then look at the charts on https://www.delta.com/content/www/en...-partners.html

If you're really in Y (this deal is mostly for business class) then it should be RDM/MQM/MQD should be 125%/125%/25% of miles flown on Alitalia and 125%/150%/25% on Air France. More if you're in business class. RDM will also get a bonus based on your status level (see chart at bottom of above linked page)
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I found flights to Dublin for around 2400

I'll probably take these:

That assumes they are published fares (for economy, they very well may be published fares). The discount Z fares mentioned at the top are pretty clearly not published fares as they cannot be purchased standalone.

You are absolutely correct that unpublished fares may be treated differently. I will edit my previous post to clarify and hope to avoid confusing anyone.

From what I can read on the partner page, I'm not sure it matters for partner marketed flights. It definitely does matter for Delta marketed. Has anyone reported first hand experience with this in 2018 yet?

Deals are still alive. SFO-CDG non stop on Aug 4th-Aug 18th or Aug 18th-Sep 3rd. On AF 777-300er/777-200 on AF tkt for $1560 pp (3 adults and 1 infant) including one night hotel. Yours may be lower if you dont have an infant. Also, do make sure you are booking through Chase Reserve (for 3X and travel insurance) and not Amex plat (which only earns 1x for expedia pkg bookings). Befrugal.com offers 4% cashback for expedia pkg deals and you also earn 2X expedia points if you sign in and book through their mobile app . See you guys on-board on aug 18th-sep3 itin !!!

Expedia says it books into Z class, but AF just says business. Shows an error when you click fare/cancel conditions. Any thoughts on mileage earnings - I see lot of you have mentioned these fares dont earn any. Also are there any differences between 777-300er and 777-200 (both show 1-2-1 config)

Now..let the planning begin. Any suggestions on how much time to visit Paris and what other countries should I club for a 2 week trip with an infant? We were thinking paris and switzerland or london