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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #1800 on: January 10, 2016, 07:57:43 PM »
It was indeed. No return yet.. #d93style
Just what I was thinking.

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #1801 on: January 10, 2016, 08:56:02 PM »
On Hold. Can route back in J on QR or in Y/Apartments on EY. Total travel time and quality of cabin is decent (particularly routing on QR, considering options generally to the Maldives)
 
QATAR AIRWAYS    704    JFK New York    May 23, 2016
11:15 AM    DOH Doha    May 24, 2016
06:50 AM    Business 350    
 
QATAR AIRWAYS    674    DOH Doha    May 24, 2016
08:30 AM    MLE Male    May 24, 2016
03:15 PM    Business 332    
 
Return Option 1:
QATAR AIRWAYS    675    MLE Male    May 29, 2016
08:20 PM    DOH Doha    May 29, 2016
10:55 PM    Business   332
 
QATAR AIRWAYS    703    DOH Doha    May 30, 2016
02:30 AM    JFK New York    May 30, 2016
09:15 AM    Business 359    

Return Option 2:   
 
ETIHAD AIRWAYS    279    MLE Male    May 29, 2016
07:40 PM    AUH Abu Dhabi    May 29, 2016
11:00 PM    Economy    320
 
ETIHAD AIRWAYS    103    AUH Abu Dhabi    May 30, 2016
03:20 AM    JFK New York    May 30, 2016
09:35 AM    First    388

UTCB (unable to confirm babysitting) so will be letting these holds slip away tomorrow at midnight.

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #1802 on: January 10, 2016, 10:26:17 PM »
Dude. You book now. You work your butt off to make it work. If, and only if, you are UTCB at or near the time of departure, you pay redeposit fee.
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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #1803 on: January 10, 2016, 11:56:11 PM »
Dude. You book now. You work your butt off to make it work. If, and only if, you are UTCB at or near the time of departure, you pay redeposit fee.

+1000!  Eliteflyer please listen to AJK and book those awesome flights!  Then start a thread about how you need babysitting in order to actually go on your trip, what you're willing to pay and how you will B"H write a TR if people will help you and you should have numerous babysitting options to make this happen!  ;D :P

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #1804 on: January 11, 2016, 12:20:14 AM »
Dude. You book now. You work your butt off to make it work. If, and only if, you are UTCB at or near the time of departure, you pay redeposit fee.
+100 I would definitely also risk redeposit fees to be able to go on the trip.

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #1805 on: January 11, 2016, 01:11:52 AM »
+1000!  Eliteflyer please listen to AJK and book those awesome flights!  Then start a thread about how you need babysitting in order to actually go on your trip, what you're willing to pay and how you will B"H write a TR if people will help you and you should have numerous babysitting options to make this happen!  ;D :P
Mrs Eliteflyer will be absolutely thrilled with this plan I'm sure. Situating two 2.5 year olds for a week and jetting off to the other side of the world is not so simple. Grandparents in YYZ (so would have to drop them off there first) are willing to do it when the kids are older, but not at this age. I don't think urgency of award chart devaluations or the vagaries of first class products factor heavily in their decision.

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #1806 on: January 11, 2016, 01:13:46 AM »
Dude. You book now. You work your butt off to make it work. If, and only if, you are UTCB at or near the time of departure, you pay redeposit fee.
spoken truly like someone who has no idea what he's about to get himself into doesn't have kids yet.  :D

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #1807 on: January 11, 2016, 01:14:56 AM »
Mrs Eliteflyer will be absolutely thrilled with this plan I'm sure. Situating two 2.5 year olds for a week and jetting off to the other side of the world is not so simple. Grandparents in YYZ (so would have to drop them off there first) are willing to do it when they get older, but not at this age. I don't think urgency of award chart devaluations or the vagaries of first class products factor heavily in their decision.
That makes sense. Though in that case, what was your הווה אמינא for holding it in the first place?

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #1808 on: January 11, 2016, 01:17:29 AM »
That makes sense. Though in that case, what was your הווה אמינא for holding it in the first place?
+100 I would definitely also risk redeposit fees to be able to go on the trip.
more like paying redeposit fees for the privilege of spending 5 months looking at a ticket that will eventually be cancelled. The inlaws did actually consider it before rejecting the idea and it costs nothing to hold it.

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #1809 on: January 11, 2016, 01:20:37 AM »
more like paying redeposit fees for the privilege of spending 5 months looking at a ticket that will eventually be cancelled. The inlaws did actually consider it before rejecting the idea and it costs nothing to hold it.
Got it. Planning trips with kids is a bit different than planning without kids. As someone who's planning his first trip with a kid I've been learning a lot and can only imagine what traveling with 2.5 YOs must be like.

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #1810 on: January 11, 2016, 01:21:40 AM »


As someone who's planning his first trip with a kid I've been learning a lot and can only imagine what traveling with 2.5 YOs must be like.
You can barely be considered planning travel with a kid

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #1811 on: January 11, 2016, 01:24:19 AM »
You can barely be considered planning travel with a kid
True, but barely is the beginning, no?

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #1812 on: January 11, 2016, 01:27:12 AM »
True, but barely is the beginning, no?
Barely that either

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #1813 on: January 11, 2016, 01:28:20 AM »
Barely that either
If your point is there's a lot more than just booking tickets, I'm well aware. Should be a fun, new experience.

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #1814 on: January 11, 2016, 01:39:26 AM »
If your point is there's a lot more than just booking tickets, I'm well aware. Should be a fun, new experience.
I was trying to say that planning a trip for an infant without having one yet or ever traveled with one, no matter how much you research nothing can properly prepare you for it until you actually do it. same thing I think for booking travel with a toddler when all you have in an infant  and so on...

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #1815 on: January 11, 2016, 01:45:17 AM »
I was trying to say that planning a trip for an infant without having one yet or ever traveled with one, no matter how much you research nothing can properly prepare you for it until you actually do it. same thing I think for booking travel with a toddler when all you have in an infant  and so on...
Oh, I totally agree. Scary at that, since you don't know how the kid will behave at each age/stage.

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #1816 on: January 11, 2016, 07:52:17 AM »
more like paying redeposit fees for the privilege of spending 5 months looking at a ticket that will eventually be cancelled. The inlaws did actually consider it before rejecting the idea and it costs nothing to hold it.

Did you offer the grandparents anything?  What about offering them their own Mileage trip that you cover later on and maybe they'll reconsider.  I just did that and have my MLE trip booked and mine are watching three kids and NOT out of the goodness of their heart! ;)

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #1817 on: January 11, 2016, 08:01:42 AM »
Did you offer the grandparents anything?  What about offering them their own Mileage trip that you cover later on and maybe they'll reconsider.  I just did that and have my MLE trip booked and mine are watching three kids and NOT out of the goodness of their heart! ;)
offered to book them awards to a destination of their choosing. They'd do it, just not until the kids are older.

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #1818 on: January 11, 2016, 08:04:39 AM »
So you're essentially saying that it will be impossible to find babysitting for your kids.
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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #1819 on: January 11, 2016, 08:35:26 AM »
So you're essentially saying that it will be impossible to find babysitting for your kids.
for a week, at this point, yes.