Am: Tij - jfk j $629
Oct 24, 2020, 10:04 pm
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Am: Tij - jfk j $629
Live in SoCal and need to get to New York? A good hack is to take a trip down the 805 until you hit the CBX and essentially allow you to get around cabotage laws and earn DL MQDs/MQM using partner charts.
Travel is via MEX. MEX - JFK segments on 787's are 2-2-2 lieflats. TIJ - MEX - JFK clocks in at a hair over 7000 miles, meaning 10,500 DL MQM and 2,800 MQD.
https://www.google.com/flights?hl=en...1*2.USD.249121
For comparison's sake, SAN - JFK usually runs for 400-500 USD on your standard recliner seat on AA/DL, and for a heavy premium on B6 mint
Travel is via MEX. MEX - JFK segments on 787's are 2-2-2 lieflats. TIJ - MEX - JFK clocks in at a hair over 7000 miles, meaning 10,500 DL MQM and 2,800 MQD.
https://www.google.com/flights?hl=en...1*2.USD.249121
For comparison's sake, SAN - JFK usually runs for 400-500 USD on your standard recliner seat on AA/DL, and for a heavy premium on B6 mint
Oct 24, 2020, 10:41 pm
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Oct 24, 2020, 11:14 pm
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Live in SoCal and need to get to New York? A good hack is to take a trip down the 805 until you hit the CBX and essentially allow you to get around cabotage laws and earn DL MQDs/MQM using partner charts.
Travel is via MEX. MEX - JFK segments on 787's are 2-2-2 lieflats. TIJ - MEX - JFK clocks in at a hair over 7000 miles, meaning 10,500 DL MQM and 2,800 MQD.
https://www.google.com/flights?hl=en...1*2.USD.249121
For comparison's sake, SAN - JFK usually runs for 400-500 USD on your standard recliner seat on AA/DL, and for a heavy premium on B6 mint
Travel is via MEX. MEX - JFK segments on 787's are 2-2-2 lieflats. TIJ - MEX - JFK clocks in at a hair over 7000 miles, meaning 10,500 DL MQM and 2,800 MQD.
https://www.google.com/flights?hl=en...1*2.USD.249121
For comparison's sake, SAN - JFK usually runs for 400-500 USD on your standard recliner seat on AA/DL, and for a heavy premium on B6 mint
Oct 25, 2020, 5:57 pm
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No AM 787 to JFK in Nov
This is an interesting option and I am in SoCal and have used the CBX before - quite efficient actually.
However - when I did random samples of several days in NOV it doesn't look like AM is flying MEX-JFK at all.....much less with a 787. All SkyTeam non-stops seem to be Delta only and on a 757 without lie-flats. Here is a link @ the $629 price point.
https://www.google.com/flights?hl=en...;sc:b;sd:1;t:f
Alot less appealing without the 787 - not to mention AA is flying the 777 between LAX and JFK in NOV (I'm booked in mid-NOV) in J.. Perhaps AM will resume Dreamliner service in DEC or later ??
Grunion
However - when I did random samples of several days in NOV it doesn't look like AM is flying MEX-JFK at all.....much less with a 787. All SkyTeam non-stops seem to be Delta only and on a 757 without lie-flats. Here is a link @ the $629 price point.
https://www.google.com/flights?hl=en...;sc:b;sd:1;t:f
Alot less appealing without the 787 - not to mention AA is flying the 777 between LAX and JFK in NOV (I'm booked in mid-NOV) in J.. Perhaps AM will resume Dreamliner service in DEC or later ??
Grunion
Oct 26, 2020, 4:12 am
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another one from TIJ-MCO would earn 8130 MQMs 2168 MQDs 3.79 MQD Ratio
Delta Diamond members would obtain 23848 RDMs, Platinum 19512 RDMs, Gold 17344 RDMs, Silver 15176 RDMs, Base 10840 RDMs
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Delta Diamond members would obtain 23848 RDMs, Platinum 19512 RDMs, Gold 17344 RDMs, Silver 15176 RDMs, Base 10840 RDMs
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Oct 27, 2020, 12:58 pm
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Tij - hnl $735
Now this one is probably not the most comfortable ride, but booking with AM numbers you get a massive amount of MQM and probably more importantly MQD on DL flying TIJ - MEX - LAX - HNL - LAX - MTY - MEX - TIJ.
16,882 MQM, $4502 MQD for just $735 is not bad
16,882 MQM, $4502 MQD for just $735 is not bad
Oct 27, 2020, 1:08 pm
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Testing/quarantine requirement to enter Hawaii from Mexico?
Oct 27, 2020, 1:18 pm
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There was never actually a ban on traveling to and from Mexico via air and the US. Hawaii just states they need a negative Covid test to avoid quarantine no mention of foreign nationals that appears to be handled by the feds
Oct 27, 2020, 2:16 pm
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That would definitely be the scenic route from SoCal to HNL hehe
Oct 27, 2020, 6:19 pm
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James
Oct 27, 2020, 9:12 pm
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One would think that whatever the state mandates, they should also provide. Perhaps that's too much to expect from HI.
Oct 27, 2020, 9:14 pm
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