Who has Business Class?
Mar 20, 2005 | 4:33 am
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Who has Business Class?
I'm looking to book an award(Using Onepass Miles) in Biz(Don't have the miles for first at the moment) and I need to know which Skyteam members and also which CO partners offer a C/J class as opposed to something like biz-first.
Mar 20, 2005 | 1:47 pm
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CO of course takes the p*ss out of ST flyers, charging F miles for a J product. If transiting in the US was less painful, I would use CO to fly Europe-Venezuela on an award for biz class miles (bit of a loophole at least when using OK miles) just to get my own back.
You shouldn't have a problem securing a Biz class seat in any of the other Skyteam airlines. The only First class available on NW, DL and AZ is short-haul in two-class aircraft and, of course, charged at business miles. Everything else all over Skyteam is called business class and that's what it is!!!
You shouldn't have a problem securing a Biz class seat in any of the other Skyteam airlines. The only First class available on NW, DL and AZ is short-haul in two-class aircraft and, of course, charged at business miles. Everything else all over Skyteam is called business class and that's what it is!!!
Mar 20, 2005 | 8:41 pm
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OKay then, I guess my next question is simple. Which carriers have the "best" buisness class? I have been looking at the websites of each carrier but it seems like a LOT of hype.
Mar 21, 2005 | 7:14 am
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Originally Posted by gradvmedusa
OKay then, I guess my next question is simple. Which carriers have the "best" buisness class? I have been looking at the websites of each carrier but it seems like a LOT of hype.
Mar 21, 2005 | 4:24 pm
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For certain I will be flying NYC-NRT and then just all around asia possibly NRT-SIN or NRT-BKK then back again from somewhere else(Probably the opposite ie: fly into BKK and out of SIN) I don't mind connecting or flying odd routes(EK through Dubai to Asia if it's possible) to get the best flight experience, time isn't really an imperative.
Mar 22, 2005 | 4:55 am
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Originally Posted by gradvmedusa
For certain I will be flying NYC-NRT and then just all around asia possibly NRT-SIN or NRT-BKK
Mar 22, 2005 | 1:18 pm
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Originally Posted by graraps
If the Onepass rules are similar to the ones in OK+, you can only go transpacific.
Mar 22, 2005 | 2:03 pm
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Originally Posted by NickW
AZ also has some interesting ideas about what 'continuous east to west or west to east' direction when creating RTW reward routings (CDG-GRU-MEX-JFK anyone?)
Mar 23, 2005 | 11:26 am
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Originally Posted by graraps
That sounds like a perfectly legal routing to me. GRU is to the east of JFK, and MEX is a hub....
I was expecting to have to do something dumb like:
CDG-GRU-(MEX)-JFK-MEX-(DFW)-SFO
which is W / W / W / W if you omit the bracketed transit (i.e. less than 24 hour) points.
That's because:
CDG-GRU-MEX-JFK-SFO
flown directly is W / W / E / W.
Anyway, I've blown about four hundred thousand AZ miles since then so I don't quite enough for a RTW now.
Mar 24, 2005 | 8:45 am
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A great way to see equipment and classes is download the timetable at www.skyteam.com