Booking awards on Aeroflot
Jun 11, 06, 2:43 pm
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I was talking with a Delta representative, trying to use SkyMiles to book a ticket from Budapest to Bangkok. One of the alternatives offered was on Aeroflot. The connection time was not bad, but I noticed that the SVO-BKK leg was on an Ilyushin96, and decided to double connect with Korean instead.
Jun 13, 06, 2:15 pm
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IL96 have new Business class seats installed. These are superior to what KE offers, in addition to personal DigiPlayers offered to each Business passenger, and excellent meal service, I would pick SU over KE.
Jun 17, 06, 1:12 am
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Originally Posted by gary_nj
I was talking with a Delta representative, trying to use SkyMiles to book a ticket from Budapest to Bangkok. One of the alternatives offered was on Aeroflot. The connection time was not bad, but I noticed that the SVO-BKK leg was on an Ilyushin96, and decided to double connect with Korean instead.
Jun 24, 06, 4:44 pm
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Originally Posted by karthik
I booked one leg of my RTW specifically on ICN-SVO for that exact reason: to fly on one of the newly refurbished IL96s.
Kudos to SU for their ever improving service. Now if we can just get SVO3 up and going...
Jun 29, 06, 11:52 pm
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Interesting, before SU joined ST, swards were widely available. Basically it woked a lot like Starwood, if there is a seat for sale, you can get it with points. Now upon calling NW Platinum agents, looks like absolutely zero fseats available for business award for three months in thwe row. coach seats are also extremely limited. These are for US-Russia flights. Seems that SU adopted ST restrictions, and took it to the typical Russian extreme level, no seat no matter what. Very dissapointed
Nov 19, 06, 2:22 pm
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Anyone know what the award classes are on SU?
From this thread http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showt...ferrerid=28181 I understand that O is business award and X is economy award, á la AF.
I'm trying to look at availability between SVO and VVO (Vladivostok) and can't find O anytime. Using KVS, I've checked about 50 dates in Dec 06 and Jun-Jul 07.
I've checked for O inventory on similar dates for SVO-AMS and SVO-JFK, and it shows O4 for many dates.
Could it be that awards WITHIN Russia use a different booking class?
From this thread http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showt...ferrerid=28181 I understand that O is business award and X is economy award, á la AF.
I'm trying to look at availability between SVO and VVO (Vladivostok) and can't find O anytime. Using KVS, I've checked about 50 dates in Dec 06 and Jun-Jul 07.
I've checked for O inventory on similar dates for SVO-AMS and SVO-JFK, and it shows O4 for many dates.
Could it be that awards WITHIN Russia use a different booking class?
Nov 19, 06, 2:43 pm
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Originally Posted by TrayflowInUK
Anyone know what the award classes are on SU?
From this thread http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showt...ferrerid=28181 I understand that O is business award and X is economy award, á la AF.
I'm trying to look at availability between SVO and VVO (Vladivostok) and can't find O anytime. Using KVS, I've checked about 50 dates in Dec 06 and Jun-Jul 07.
From this thread http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showt...ferrerid=28181 I understand that O is business award and X is economy award, á la AF.
I'm trying to look at availability between SVO and VVO (Vladivostok) and can't find O anytime. Using KVS, I've checked about 50 dates in Dec 06 and Jun-Jul 07.
Looking, for example, at 01 Dec, you can see award availability:
[KVS Availability Tool 2.5.3/Platinum - Sabre: ITN/US-AXC1]
Code:
SVO Moscow Sheremetyevo RU [UUEE] VVO Vladivostok RU [UHWW] FRI 01 Dec 2006 Carrier Flight From Depart To Arrive A/C St Availability --------- ------ ---- --------- ---- --------- ---- ---- ----------------------------------------- SU 719 SVO 19:10 VVO 10:50 +1 763 0 J7 C7 D7 O6 Z0 Y7 S7 B7 M7 H7 K7 X7 V7 T7
Nov 20, 06, 1:07 am
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KVS, I can't believe you found availability... I spent 20 mins looking at various dates (like I said, I must have looked at 50 or even more... that CTRL+PGUP feature is GREAT!) and found nothing!
Good tip about requesting, I didn't know that.
Good tip about requesting, I didn't know that.
Nov 21, 06, 9:39 am
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I was wondering... since Vladivostok is in Russia and Russia is in Europe (as far as WorldPerks in concerned, not sure about FB), is this only a 50,000 mile award RT in C?
Nov 22, 06, 4:16 am
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Vlad
Originally Posted by alanh
As far as I can tell, Moscow is Europe but Vladivostok would be .....
