I fly about 10 times per year between Toronto and Montreal, and the seat sale fares are $139 Canadian. If you don't have a seat sale, the advance purchase fare, with a Saturday night say is $189 Canadian. It is $600 if it is a full Y or B fare.

QL: Thanks for another great trip report. (When's the book coming out?) Question on Board Room membership: what airlines' clubs does it get you into besides Alaska? And, do you have to be flying AS "the day of" for entrance?

BTW I just got my brochure for Ashland 2000 and will be ordering tickets for next year later today. Looks like a pretty good season, with Hamlet directed by Libby Appel, Henry V, Twelfth Night (one of my 2 or 3 favorites), Night of the Iguana, The Man Who Came to Dinner, and The Trojan Women.

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dgolds, I don't think the AS boardroom membership gets you anything other than the boardroom. There are a couple airports such as LAX where they use the TWA lounge, but it's not a general TWA pass.

This looks like the best Ashland season ever. They are also doing Taming of the Shrew if I remember. Maybe it's time for a FT Ashland gettogether!

Also a Boardroom membership gets you into NWA's club on the day of travel on NWA.

Fisch:

My friend is a businessman who never stays over a Saturday night. Apparently without a Saturday night stay there are no discounted tickets.

All I know is that most of the time it costs me less to fly SFO-YYZ than it costs him to fly YUL-YYX.



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Travelweary, I did not know that! Hey, that might come in handy if I ever fly NW again. Or maybe pigs will fly...

TravelWeary,

I did not know that either. In spite of literally hundreds of AS flights, I still have not yet had occasion to visit a Board Room but I think it would be more cost-effective to join instead of World Club in order to use World Club on those occasions when I do have to fly NWA.

I agree, QuietLion, that there are issues with NWA, but I do a fair amount of business in Minneapolis and from Seattle, it is still the best choice for me.

Punki: But wait! There's more! I found this little gem last night hidden in the Special Edition Mileage Plan Airline Partners Guide Summer 1999..."You can enjoy the comforts and services of Canadian Airline's Empress Lounge in Vancouver, Calgary or Edmonton."

In light of CP's problems, I don't know how long this will be a benefit, but there you have it.

But anyone with a business-class ticket can alwyas use the Empress lounge. Good to know, though, in case I ever find myself in coach on CP. Not real likely, but it could happen.

Punki & TravelWeary,

If you buy a CO membership, you get into CO, NW, & HP clubs and there is talk of maybe AS in the near future. With my CO card, I used it to get into the SEA NW WorldClub to meet you, DTTB, and Jamiel last August.

Newself: I don't know about the CO membership, but with the initiation fee waived, the Boardroom membership is only $175. Although I did fly USA, TWA, and UA once or twice this year, I fly NW and AS almost exclusively, so the Boardroom makes the most sense for me. Things could however change (jobs, travel patterns, life), and I would have to rethink, so thanks for the insight.