DEN to KOA
Jul 20, 2012, 9:56 pm
#1
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DEN to KOA
Current chart has saver seats on certain dates but not the one I want. The date I want is 40K vs 20K, one way. 2 of us with UAL miles going next February. Should I wait until closer to departure to see if the date I want, a Saturday, drops from 40K to 20K miles or grab the 20K miles while available.
Jul 20, 2012, 10:11 pm
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Current chart has saver seats on certain dates but not the one I want. The date I want is 40K vs 20K, one way. 2 of us with UAL miles going next February. Should I wait until closer to departure to see if the date I want, a Saturday, drops from 40K to 20K miles or grab the 20K miles while available.
Jul 20, 2012, 10:14 pm
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Can you find seats to HNL on the day you want? Book those and buy the HA segments....another option is fly to ITO and drive back over to the Kona side (the drive is not that bad).
Jul 20, 2012, 10:52 pm
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Looks like .bomb will let them combine UA & HA segments on the award ticket, which would save them the cost of buying tix.
Jul 20, 2012, 11:17 pm
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True, but at a cost of 5k additional miles.
Looks like .bomb will let them combine UA & HA segments on the award ticket, which would save them the cost of buying tix.
Jul 20, 2012, 11:18 pm
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I would just buy the ticket from DEN on the widebody flight to HNL and buy the HA ticket or keep searching for 5k award seats on another ticket.