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OW/*A: SFO-Milan, Venice, Other Italy Cities $1,865 in J (BA $1,665 after AARP)

OW/*A: SFO-Milan, Venice, Other Italy Cities $1,865 in J (BA $1,665 after AARP)

Old Apr 1, 2021, 6:44 pm
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Originally Posted by Boraxo
Great fare - paid almost $1100 one-way for the subpar experience on TAP a couple of years ago.
Not particularly on-topic of me, but: was TAP tragically bad? A few reviews made their J seem decent. Curious about your experience.

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Old Apr 1, 2021, 9:11 pm
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Originally Posted by futuramadramallama
Not particularly on-topic, but: was TAP tragically bad? A few reviews made their J seem decent. Curious about your experience.
I found the A339 and the food in J good.
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Old Apr 1, 2021, 11:03 pm
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Originally Posted by futuramadramallama
Not particularly on-topic, but: was TAP tragically bad? A few reviews made their J seem decent. Curious about your experience.
the seats are ok but not as good as UA or DL. The food options were mediocre compared to other Euro and USA carriers. LIS not great if you have to go thru exit immigration. Lounge was crowded and awful.

i would do it again at the right price but would not be my first choice if there were other options.
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Old Apr 2, 2021, 6:46 pm
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Are there different lounges for *A or Priority Pass members at LIS, FAO or OPO?
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Old Apr 2, 2021, 6:51 pm
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Are there different lounges for *A or Priority Pass members at LIS, FAO or OPO?
In OPO, there is only one lounge and it's the same lounge which OW carriers contract, *A carriers contract and PriorityPass is accepted.

For LIS, I am not sure about the PP Lounges but *A passengers would be able to access the TAP Lounge where passengers on OW carriers can't.

I have no idea for FAO.
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Old Apr 6, 2021, 1:05 am
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So anyone finding sub-$2000 fares from SFO still?

Because it looks like in the latter half of August, the fares go up over $2500 and in September, they're over $3000.


Are the sub $2000 fares all gone? Of course we know the schedules in the summer and beyond are all tentative anyways. But either the airlines are pricing higher later in the summer than June and July because they think travel restrictions will be lifted by then or people have made actual bookings for late August and into September, driving the prices up.

At least that would be how things normally operate right, greater demand drives up prices or the airlines forecast demand to go up? But in these uncertain times, it's maybe more of a crapshoot?
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Old Apr 6, 2021, 6:11 am
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Originally Posted by exp
So anyone finding sub-$2000 fares from SFO still?

Because it looks like in the latter half of August, the fares go up over $2500 and in September, they're over $3000.


Are the sub $2000 fares all gone? Of course we know the schedules in the summer and beyond are all tentative anyways. But either the airlines are pricing higher later in the summer than June and July because they think travel restrictions will be lifted by then or people have made actual bookings for late August and into September, driving the prices up.

At least that would be how things normally operate right, greater demand drives up prices or the airlines forecast demand to go up? But in these uncertain times, it's maybe more of a crapshoot?
MXP $1862 (book on AA or BA) Round trip to Milan | Google Flights
Also seeing <2K in July/August for FCO, VCE, etc Round trip to Rome | Google Flights
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Old Apr 6, 2021, 11:57 am
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Hmm, so AA or OW has sales but *A isn't matching?
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Old Apr 6, 2021, 1:09 pm
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Hmm, so AA or OW has sales but *A isn't matching?
Availability also on *A
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Old Apr 6, 2021, 1:53 pm
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Ah ok, I missed that it's only Italy.

I tried your SFO-FCO link above, tried changing airlines.

Then tried changing destination.

So Switzerland, France, Austria, Germany, etc. are about $500 more or higher.
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Old Apr 7, 2021, 8:01 am
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Ah ok, I missed that it's only Italy.

I tried your SFO-FCO link above, tried changing airlines.

Then tried changing destination.

So Switzerland, France, Austria, Germany, etc. are about $500 more or higher.
BCN/LIS/OPO and quite a few more are all pricing around $1900. AM is pricing even lower, but no thanks. You use the link and plug in Europe as destination to see more availability.

Note that many of the AC flights have 2+ Segments per direction, making it an ideal partner airline to credit to UA for PQP earning a preferred partner and 200% earnings.
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Old May 7, 2021, 1:38 pm
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Fares have gone up in the last few days.

Some by a lot for TATL P fares.

Maybe in anticipation of Europe opening up?
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Old May 7, 2021, 8:08 pm
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I see Star Alliance pricing SFO/ORD/etc. to MAD and other destinations for $1659 - available every day of the calendar.
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Old May 7, 2021, 10:25 pm
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I see Star Alliance pricing SFO/ORD/etc. to MAD and other destinations for $1659 - available every day of the calendar.
Yeah, it seems that *A has a sale from some US cities to Portugal, Spain and Italy. Book on/before May 11th if the fare rules are correct.

Here are the routes I could find:Boston (BOS) Barcelona (BCN) $1,601

Boston (BOS) Madrid (MAD) $1,649

Boston (BOS) Porto (OPO) $1,880



Chicago (ORD) Barcelona (BCN) $1,633

Chicago (ORD) Madrid (MAD) $1,659

Chicago (ORD) Venice (VCE) $1,667



Fort Lauderdale (FLL) -Milan (MXP) $1,663

Fort Lauderdale (FLL) Lisbon (LIS) $1,692

Fort Lauderdale (FLL) Naples (NAP) $1,688



Miami (MIA) Naples (NAP) $1,665

Miami (MIA) Venice (VCE) $1,667

Miami (MIA) Milan (MXP) $1,669

Miami (MIA) Lisbon (LIS) $1,692



New York (EWR) Barcelona (BCN) $1,841*

New York (EWR) Milan (MXP) $1,848*

New York (EWR) Rome (FCO) $1,856



San Francisco (SFO) Barcelona (BCN) $1,633

San Francisco (SFO) Madrid (MAD) $1,659



San Jos (SJC) Barcelona (BCN) $1,655

San Jos (SJC) Madrid (MAD) $1,663



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Old May 8, 2021, 12:51 am
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Yeah I've been checking France, Switzerland and Austria, not Southern Europe.
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