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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #2300 on: April 10, 2016, 01:00:42 AM »
JFK-LHR DL J
LHR-JFK AA J  (Actually booked pre deval)

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #2301 on: April 12, 2016, 03:26:14 AM »
EWR-HNL UA J (1 Seat) – 30k SQ

Looks like the little one is getting her own seat :).

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #2302 on: April 12, 2016, 07:06:04 AM »
EWR-HNL UA J (1 Seat) – 30k SQ

Looks like the little one is getting her own seat :).
Date?

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #2303 on: April 12, 2016, 08:22:52 AM »
Date?
5/4. Why? You stalking me on this trip too?   :P

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #2304 on: April 12, 2016, 08:26:13 AM »
5/4. Why? You stalking me on this trip too?   :P

Wanted to make sure I'm not :)

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #2305 on: April 12, 2016, 08:30:43 AM »
Wanted to make sure I'm not :)
You're going to Hawaii in May?

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #2306 on: April 12, 2016, 12:19:45 PM »
You're going to Hawaii in May?

A man can dream

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #2307 on: April 13, 2016, 11:40:01 PM »
AF JFK-CDG-TLV J

Held BA F TLV-LHR-JFK but I'm not sure it's worth it

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #2308 on: April 14, 2016, 12:29:16 AM »


Held BA F TLV-LHR-JFK but I'm not sure it's worth it

What's the YQ on that?

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #2309 on: April 14, 2016, 01:01:10 AM »
AF JFK-CDG-TLV J

Held BA F TLV-LHR-JFK but I'm not sure it's worth it
Drop the JFK leg, BA F TLV-LHR has low YQ

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #2310 on: April 14, 2016, 08:40:02 AM »

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #2311 on: April 14, 2016, 08:42:07 AM »
Drop the JFK leg, BA F TLV-LHR has low YQ
And how do I get back to NYC from London? It's not just the YQ. 115k aa miles is a lot.

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #2312 on: April 14, 2016, 09:31:16 AM »
And how do I get back to NYC from London? It's not just the YQ. 115k aa miles is a lot.
use VX or VS points to fly on VS metal maybe. (still high YQ but few points)
You can get your air passenger duty refunded if you only spend less then 24 hrs in London, even if flying on separate tickets. 

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #2313 on: April 14, 2016, 10:26:55 AM »
You can get your air passenger duty refunded if you only spend less then 24 hrs in London, even if flying on separate tickets.

Really? That's awesome. How do you go about doing that?

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #2316 on: April 14, 2016, 12:44:57 PM »
http://viewfromthewing.boardingarea.com/2016/02/26/refund-uk-apd-luxury-departure-tax/

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/british-airways-executive-club/1620173-apd-refund-possible.html

It might not work for BA

That is a pretty big deal. Thank you!
would have been handy to know I could do this when trying to find these flights:

And for the return I needed a full day in LHR, thus:

JNB-LHR - SA J
LHR-FRA - LH J (overnight)
FRA-ORD - UA F

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #2317 on: April 14, 2016, 10:42:41 PM »
Sent VS CS an email around 3 months ago pointing this out for a recent flight, still awaiting their reply.
Dispute the charge with CC?

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #2318 on: April 27, 2016, 09:35:46 AM »
Thanksgiving 2016:


JFK-LHR (DL on VS, J), LHR-NCE (BA on BA, Y)
NCE-MAD (BA on IB, Y)
MAD-MIA-LGA (AA for 1 pax and AS for 1 pax, J/F)
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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #2319 on: May 13, 2016, 05:18:56 AM »
How bad is Thomas Cook? Worse than Norwegian?
I just booked MAN to MIA on June 23.