davistev

BA First Class / YVR-JNB $4,610 USD. Stopover in LHR can be had for a reasonable add on surcharge (probably due to security fee).

see Google Link

dag10

Thanks, I booked an itinerary with several days in JNB, and then a several-day London stopover for $5081.68 USD.

The YVR-JNB (connecting in LHR) part of the itinerary is split class:
- J in their A350 (it’s the newish Club Suites product, with doors; the highest class on that plane.)
- F in their A380

Then the flight from JNB-LHR is F in the A380 again, and finally several days later from LHR-YVR is F in a 777, with a connection on Alaska from SEA-YVR (an E175).

It was actually kinda tricky to book. When clicking through from Google Flights to BA, BA would say “First Class was not available for some flights” and put me in Economy instead. The only way to get around this was to do a manual multi-city search on BA’s website with the itinerary I found from Google Flights, and for any city pairs with connections that partially included a flight without F (such as the A350) I had to break those out into their own pairs in the search. Then I’d manually select J for the A350 and F for all the other segments. Took a bit to figure that all out.

Also, the price Google Flights would show when selecting the last flight of the itinerary is actually more money than the (correct) price it would show on the final Google Flights itinerary page. Weird.

olouie

Cant get BA to price out multicity for 2 passengers. Ugh.

davistev

Alaska 100K member gets 175,848 RDM and 62,064 EQM for about .028 CPM if booked in F Class ($320 more). CPM is about the same if booked in A Class.

olouie

How are you getting it to price out in F or A? Each time I use google or Ba it errors out before pricing.

Also I think as 100k you �only� get 135,486 RDM in F. It�s 20688 miles RT*6.5 (500% for BA F and 150% for 100k).

davistev

Because I also count the threshold bonus miles that AS gives us. Now we get 100K on the first 100,000 miles actual miles. On this fare this equals 20,688 miles based on my yearly travel pattern of 100K actual miles.

Base Miles: 20,688
Class Bonus 500%: 103,440
100K Elite Miles 150%: 31,032
75K / 100K Threshold Bonus: 20,688
TOTAL: 175,848

olouie

Its not a 500% class bonus. Its 400% bonus for 500% total miles (before elite bonuses) for F so you are double counting a bit there I think.

NA-Flyer

Wow That's a great deal to fly all the way to JNB in F

I secured two tickets for my next year travel with a positioning flight to YVR via DFW

jfkeze

Can't remember off the top of my head how AA/BA codeshares credit to Alaska.
But you can play around with connection in the USA to get F to LHR, in the sample below LAX BA 380 and DFW AA 77W...
Google Flights

olouie

One strange thing is that when booking US connecting flights be careful as the booking class on BA says J but on checkout it will say no first or business class seats so it�s actually in economy.

olouie

Plot thickens, I booked and BA cancelled the YVR-US legs instantly after booking. Very strange.

zebranz

Booked via SEA both directions to get the 1st class all BA flights. CAD 6595. Used GF to take to BA site.

olouie

Were you able to get F fare class? I booked with A fare since F raise the costs to over $13,000.

zebranz

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zebranz

Just got email that YVR-SEA flight canceled.. Looks familiar to "olouie" AS flight shows cxld on outbound not return. This BA7540 code share.

Have to do some work before posting more.