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Re: HOw TO USE MILES TO GET TO ISRAEL
« Reply #20 on: June 08, 2010, 10:29:56 PM »
ur 100% right...i am looking into things...it's just so overwhelming :)

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Re: HOw TO USE MILES TO GET TO ISRAEL
« Reply #21 on: June 08, 2010, 11:25:41 PM »
aussie not everyone is a  bored yeshiva bocher that has time to look through all the threads b4 they post!!  LOL 

it is very overwhelming if your new to the parsha!! (even a month for MOST people isn't enough)

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Re: HOw TO USE MILES TO GET TO ISRAEL
« Reply #22 on: June 08, 2010, 11:30:45 PM »
aussie not everyone is a  bored yeshiva bocher that has time to look through all the threads b4 they post!!
That's why there's a search function.
Save your time, I don't answer PM. Post it in the forum and a dedicated DDF'er will get back to you as soon as possible.

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Re: HOw TO USE MILES TO GET TO ISRAEL
« Reply #23 on: June 08, 2010, 11:34:18 PM »
good ha'arah, but it still takes time!!

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Re: HOw TO USE MILES TO GET TO ISRAEL
« Reply #24 on: June 09, 2010, 12:07:17 AM »
can you help me out?
i have 242,000 delta miles
45,000 starwoods
98,000 AA
45,000 continental.
i want to get to israel for the summer with my wife and 1 yr old kid (i thought i can  go with delta but i checked and they want 130,000 each ticket... any suggestions????)

Do you have any way to get a few more miles in any of those accounts?
5,000 more starwood,
5,000 more CO
or 2,000 AA would do a ton to make your miles much more marketable/bonusable (starwood)!!

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Re: HOw TO USE MILES TO GET TO ISRAEL
« Reply #25 on: June 09, 2010, 12:23:04 AM »
Do you have any way to get a few more miles in any of those accounts?
5,000 more starwood,
5,000 more CO
or 2,000 AA would do a ton to make your miles much more marketable/bonusable (starwood)!!

Bonusable? he sofar has 2 5,000 *point bonuses. it would take 15K (not 5K) for another bonus

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Re: HOw TO USE MILES TO GET TO ISRAEL
« Reply #26 on: June 09, 2010, 12:24:54 AM »
Bonusable? he sofar has 2 5,000 *point bonuses. it would take 15K (not 5K) for another bonus
granted. I did bad math before. Its now corrected.

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Re: HOw TO USE MILES TO GET TO ISRAEL
« Reply #27 on: June 09, 2010, 12:35:32 AM »
So lets assume you can trade the AA miles for one RT on a Star Alliance member, and you can use the SPG for the other through UA.
Now you need to check to find availability.
Dan Hakadosh has a post about how to find availability:
http://www.dansdeals.com/forums/index.php?topic=2288.0

(sorry aussie, no fancy link)

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Re: HOw TO USE MILES TO GET TO ISRAEL
« Reply #28 on: June 09, 2010, 03:12:57 AM »
(sorry aussie, no fancy link)
Here it is. ;)

I just want to clarify what I said before because it seems that people have taken it in the wrong way. I may have written it a bit harsh but that was not my intention whatsoever.
It is totally understandable that it is all very overwhelming when a person is starting in a new field.
All I was saying was that if you take a little time to do a quick search to get a general idea of whats going on it will be much easier to ask the right questions and then in turn get answers.


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Re: How Can I Use My Miles To Get To Israel?
« Reply #29 on: June 09, 2010, 09:43:59 PM »
thanks everyone for their help. i actually am not sitting around asking everyone to help as i search both AA website and Dela and checked separate routes to moscow first (i found for 60,000) now i need to make a second leg to israel from moscow and am looking into that too but i am still taking suggestions

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Re: How Can I Use My Miles To Get To Israel?
« Reply #30 on: June 09, 2010, 09:46:53 PM »
Did you pick up the phone and ask Delta about partner availability?
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