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Re: AJK's Trip/Route Planning Thread
« Reply #1440 on: August 03, 2015, 11:54:41 AM »
Make sense. Good luck and enjoy!
Thanks. I gather you've been to YYJ?
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Re: AJK's Trip/Route Planning Thread
« Reply #1441 on: August 03, 2015, 11:58:09 AM »
Thanks. I gather you've been to YYJ?
Yup! Great city. Between the inner harbour, The (Fairmount) Empress hotel, (provincial) Parlaiment, Butchart Gardens, and an amazing whale (orca) watching tour on a zodiac, we had a blast! Also at the time there  was a kosher bagel store, but I don't know if it's still there. I was there quite a few years ago. Keep in mind that as of when I was there only 3% of the hotels had AC.

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Re: AJK's Trip/Route Planning Thread
« Reply #1442 on: August 03, 2015, 12:00:39 PM »
Yup! Great city. Between the inner harbour, The (Fairmount) Empress hotel, (provincial) Parlaiment, Butchart Gardens, and an amazing whale (orca) watching tour on a zodiac, we had a blast! Also at the time there  was a kosher bagel store, but I don't know if it's still there. I was there quite a few years ago. Keep in mind that as of when I was there only 3% of the hotels had AC.

Yeah, last time we were there I missed Butchart Gardens, though I hope to hit it this time. Were you successful in seeing the Orcas?

As for the AC issue, it won't be as we won't be staying in a hotel ;)

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Re: AJK's Trip/Route Planning Thread
« Reply #1443 on: August 03, 2015, 12:04:15 PM »
Yeah, last time we were there I missed Butchart Gardens, though I hope to hit it this time. Were you successful in seeing the Orcas?

As for the AC issue, it won't be as we won't be staying in a hotel ;)
We were successful. It was quite foggy, so while we were supposed to stay 1000 ft  (or so) away from any orcas, we accidentally ended up right on top of a small pod of them. They were literally swimming under our boat. The thing I liked about a zodiac is it's very fast, unlike many larger boats. I didn't like having to wear a space suit, but it was good protection from the wind generated from going to fast on the North Pacific.

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Re: AJK's Trip/Route Planning Thread
« Reply #1444 on: August 05, 2015, 10:35:40 AM »
I hope I found the right thread  ;)

How can I get LH to give me the rest of the bottle of Blue Label?....

They don't have first class amenity kits.  They were very apologetic. Can I in a very friendly way ask the FA on the way out if she can give me the blue label instead, to make out trip memorable?...  It looks like they open a new bottle for every flight anyway..
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Re: AJK's Trip/Route Planning Thread
« Reply #1445 on: August 05, 2015, 10:36:37 AM »
They're sooner to give you a bottle of champagne. Even then, they're not gonna give it to you without a reason...
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Re: AJK's Trip/Route Planning Thread
« Reply #1446 on: August 05, 2015, 10:38:43 AM »
Yah. I wanna know what was YOUR reason. :)
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Re: AJK's Trip/Route Planning Thread
« Reply #1447 on: August 06, 2015, 06:38:41 AM »
1)
LGA-YYZ in Y
AA Cost = $298
My Cost = 4500 BA + $5.60
CPM = 6.6 CPM

2)
YYZ-YYJ in J
AC cost = $1000
My cost = 20K SQ + $40
CPM = ~5.0 CPM

LLTG!

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Re: AJK's Trip/Route Planning Thread
« Reply #1448 on: August 06, 2015, 07:08:49 AM »
I hope I found the right thread  ;)

How can I get LH to give me the rest of the bottle of Blue Label?....

They don't have first class amenity kits.  They were very apologetic. Can I in a very friendly way ask the FA on the way out if she can give me the blue label instead, to make out trip memorable?...  It looks like they open a new bottle for every flight anyway..
They're sooner to give you a bottle of champagne. Even then, they're not gonna give it to you without a reason...
Cant you just convince them you're an alchoholic and its in there best interested to keep you wasted?
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Re: AJK's Trip/Route Planning Thread
« Reply #1449 on: August 06, 2015, 01:55:15 PM »
When is your stopover in YYZ?

Well, it's no longer as of a little while ago.

Just changed from that itin to JFK-SFO-YYJ in J.  This way I get lie-flat biz + a connection of 55 min vs 4.5 hours.

Interesting phone call with SQ though. I call SQ to change to JFK-SFO and the first agent doesn't see that it's I1, despite me seeing it on UA.com and NH.com.

HUCA.

Second phone call I say a previous representative that me JFK-SFO is I1 and want to snag it.  He said, OK, I see it, but you can't change your prior booking to this one because it's a different carrier (from AC to UA), so you'll have to redeposit for $30 and make a new booking instead of changing for $20.  I said, go to your website...



He puts me on hold for 10 minutes and finally comes back and says, fine we can do it for $20.

He then says I need to collect an additional 12.5K.

No. NA-NA awards are 20K total in J and I've already paid that. He says, I know it's that way usually, but the computer is--and I cut him off and said please confirm with your supervisor.

Another 10 min hold and says fine, we'll do it for 20K, so no additional taxes and no additional miles.  Great! We say bye.

Success!

5 mins later... he calls me back on my cell phone (I had called from the office) and says:

..."I forgot to get your CC details for the $20 change fee."




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Re: AJK's Trip/Route Planning Thread
« Reply #1450 on: August 06, 2015, 02:09:23 PM »
lol Customer Service Reps add all the fun to this game, eh?

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Re: AJK's Trip/Route Planning Thread
« Reply #1451 on: August 06, 2015, 02:18:45 PM »
lol Customer Service Reps add all the fun to this game, eh?

They certainly add an element of randomness ...
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Re: AJK's Trip/Route Planning Thread
« Reply #1452 on: August 18, 2015, 12:07:47 AM »
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Re: AJK's Trip/Route Planning Thread
« Reply #1453 on: August 18, 2015, 12:10:29 AM »
And we're baaaaaaack!

NYC <> SIN non-stop in 2018ish.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-17/airbus-plans-long-range-a350-to-fly-singapore-nyc-direct-by-2018
Cool! I wonder if LAX will get its nonstop to SIN again?

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Re: AJK's Trip/Route Planning Thread
« Reply #1455 on: August 18, 2015, 09:12:56 AM »
Quaerite et Invenietis.

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Re: AJK's Trip/Route Planning Thread
« Reply #1457 on: August 27, 2015, 05:32:30 PM »
Good one, got 10/10 here too. Most here should be able to get that.

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Re: AJK's Trip/Route Planning Thread
« Reply #1458 on: August 27, 2015, 05:32:48 PM »
Too easy, anyone that doesn't get all 10 gets banned ;)
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