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United business... any tips to get cheaper?
« on: March 23, 2022, 10:14:11 AM »
Hi,

I have miles on multiple cards, united, amex, Venture

Any tips or tricks to get Business to Israel at a discount?

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Re: United business... any tips to get cheaper?
« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2022, 10:16:16 AM »
Hi,

I have miles on multiple cards, united, amex, Venture

Any tips or tricks to get Business to Israel at a discount?
Book with a stopover
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Re: United business... any tips to get cheaper?
« Reply #2 on: March 23, 2022, 10:18:24 AM »
Book with a stopover
I have barely seen any saver award even with a stopover for the next plenty of months . I'm looking for June for quite a while. And award availability sucks across the board.

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Re: United business... any tips to get cheaper?
« Reply #3 on: March 23, 2022, 03:32:20 PM »
I have barely seen any saver award even with a stopover for the next plenty of months . I'm looking for June for quite a while. And award availability sucks across the board.
Then you need to go out of the box. Book J between NYC and Europe then separate to TLV. I took Ryan TLV->ATH and then Emirates to EWR
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Re: United business... any tips to get cheaper?
« Reply #4 on: March 23, 2022, 03:39:22 PM »
Then you need to go out of the box. Book J between NYC and Europe then separate to TLV. I took Ryan TLV->ATH and then Emirates to EWR
Even Europe I almost didn't find anything for reasonable prices! I tried from NYC to plenty EU countries.  NADA. I wish to be wrong.  But so far I couldn't find anything in the range of saver awards . For example I tried to find Delta j thru virgin . Nothing .

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Re: United business... any tips to get cheaper?
« Reply #5 on: March 23, 2022, 08:39:15 PM »
Even Europe I almost didn't find anything for reasonable prices! I tried from NYC to plenty EU countries.  NADA. I wish to be wrong.  But so far I couldn't find anything in the range of saver awards . For example I tried to find Delta j thru virgin . Nothing .
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Re: United business... any tips to get cheaper?
« Reply #6 on: March 23, 2022, 08:47:06 PM »
JetBlue Mint to LHR?
Isn't jet blue awards tied to the cash price ?

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Re: United business... any tips to get cheaper?
« Reply #7 on: March 23, 2022, 09:14:32 PM »
Isn't jet blue awards tied to the cash price ?
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Re: United business... any tips to get cheaper?
« Reply #8 on: March 23, 2022, 09:17:36 PM »

Then I'll have to pay extra from London to tlv which wouldn't make it a deal at all after taking in count the London tlv price

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Re: United business... any tips to get cheaper?
« Reply #9 on: March 23, 2022, 10:04:31 PM »
Hi,

I have miles on multiple cards, united, amex, Venture

Any tips or tricks to get Business to Israel at a discount?
Transfer to TK book with Turkish and fly via IST

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Re: United business... any tips to get cheaper?
« Reply #10 on: March 24, 2022, 12:02:20 AM »
Transfer to TK book with Turkish and fly via IST
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Re: United business... any tips to get cheaper?
« Reply #11 on: March 24, 2022, 12:10:59 AM »
How about flights to SSH. Short hop from there to TLV.
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Re: United business... any tips to get cheaper?
« Reply #12 on: March 24, 2022, 12:19:51 AM »
How about flights to SSH. Short hop from there to TLV.
Does it even exist direct from nyc?

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Re: United business... any tips to get cheaper?
« Reply #13 on: March 24, 2022, 12:21:33 AM »
Does it even exist direct from nyc?

2 stops. But saver business available for a random date I searched.
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Re: United business... any tips to get cheaper?
« Reply #14 on: March 24, 2022, 12:22:40 AM »
2 stops. But saver business available for a random date I searched.
2 stops kills it

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Re: United business... any tips to get cheaper?
« Reply #15 on: March 24, 2022, 12:24:27 AM »
2 stops kills it

How about wasting hours (if not days) trying to find a flight? Prices might be crazy now, but can often be had sub $3k.
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Re: United business... any tips to get cheaper?
« Reply #16 on: March 24, 2022, 12:25:47 AM »
How about wasting hours (if not days) trying to find a flight? Prices might be crazy now, but can often be had sub $3k.
It's actually 3 stop including from there to tlv