What's the closest you've been to your milage maximum?
Sep 26, 2005, 12:08 pm
#1
Original Poster
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 323
What's the closest you've been to your milage maximum?
I just booked a midi star alliance 26,000 mile RTW for $2300AUD.
My itinerary is:
MEL->SYD->LAX->LAS->PHL->LHR->SIN->DPS->SIN->MEL
For a grand total of 25,968 miles
.
I was pretty lucky, because anything over and I would have had to have spent an extra $400 on upgrading my ticket.
How close you have been?
My itinerary is:
MEL->SYD->LAX->LAS->PHL->LHR->SIN->DPS->SIN->MEL
For a grand total of 25,968 miles
. I was pretty lucky, because anything over and I would have had to have spent an extra $400 on upgrading my ticket.
How close you have been?
Sep 27, 2005, 6:28 pm
#6
Moderator, Hilton Honors
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: on a short leash
Programs: some
Posts: 71,423
Watch out. I had one in planning that was also 1 mile under according to the tool, but official mileage was 5 miles over so wouldnt ticket. Took a lot of mucking around to change routing to get it under the limit.
Sep 27, 2005, 7:16 pm
#7
Join Date: Apr 2004
Programs: UA 1K
Posts: 358
Originally Posted by Kiwi Flyer
Watch out. I had one in planning that was also 1 mile under according to the tool, but official mileage was 5 miles over so wouldnt ticket. Took a lot of mucking around to change routing to get it under the limit.
I was worried about that. Thanks for the heads up, Kiwi Flyer. According to the Mileage calculator SIN-CGK is 557 miles but if you fly SQ, they would credit only 550. Which one do they use for the calculation?
Sep 28, 2005, 10:03 pm
#14
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Melbourne, Vic., Australia.
Programs: QF Platinum One (LTG), UA Plat IHG Plat
Posts: 5,836
-3 miles for me
The infamous trip of 1998 or so - back when things were oh so much easier in Star land. I doubt we could get away with it these days. Yup, it came to 29,003 miles, but I was allowed to fly at the Star1 price due to some clever arguing of distances by my wonderful agent (the argument being YYZ-EWR is way less actual miles than YYZ-NYC, which is what the calculation uses, since EWR's much closer to YYZ - by 30 or so miles). The airlines involved agreed excepting one hold out... but that was resolved (and even I do not know how) and I was good to go.
AH, those were the glory days.... before fuel surcharges.. before max. sector limits... the heady days when your taxes and charges were well under 10% of your total ticket cost. unbelieveable!!
The infamous trip of 1998 or so - back when things were oh so much easier in Star land. I doubt we could get away with it these days. Yup, it came to 29,003 miles, but I was allowed to fly at the Star1 price due to some clever arguing of distances by my wonderful agent (the argument being YYZ-EWR is way less actual miles than YYZ-NYC, which is what the calculation uses, since EWR's much closer to YYZ - by 30 or so miles). The airlines involved agreed excepting one hold out... but that was resolved (and even I do not know how) and I was good to go.
AH, those were the glory days.... before fuel surcharges.. before max. sector limits... the heady days when your taxes and charges were well under 10% of your total ticket cost. unbelieveable!!
Oct 10, 2005, 7:22 am
#15
Join Date: May 2004
Location: SIN (LEJ once a year)
Programs: SQ, LH, BA, IHG Diamond AMB, HH Gold, SLH Indulged, Accor Gold, Hyatt Discoverist
Posts: 7,750
Originally Posted by BEYFlyer
28,382... BEY-FRA-JFK-PHX-SFO-AKL (thanks for the advice Kiwi Flyer) -SYD-SIN-FRA-BEY. And thanks to demue for putting this trip together.
I know, time is of the essence on this trip and you don't want to end up doing some useless hopping around to get the most mileage out of it. Overall pretty decent what we came up with I think. Still puzzles me that there are no direct *A flights from Japan to OZ? Have you made up your mind about C or F class?Cheers ...