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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #1520 on: December 30, 2015, 05:14:11 PM »
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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #1521 on: December 30, 2015, 05:15:20 PM »

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #1522 on: December 30, 2015, 05:15:37 PM »
Flying in Y? Where is your destination?


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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #1523 on: December 30, 2015, 05:17:05 PM »
How long in each place?

PEK 4 hours. Gonna run to the city
TPE- 15 hours
NRt- 4 Hours

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #1524 on: December 30, 2015, 05:28:43 PM »
PEK 4 hours. Gonna run to the city
TPE- 15 hours
NRt- 4 Hours
Not enough time in PEK and NRT. Plus NRT is a good 60-75 minutes from the city, so you won't be running anywhere. Either extend the time in PEK and NRT to 8 hours or just don't bother seeing anything.

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #1525 on: December 30, 2015, 06:55:29 PM »
Not enough time in PEK and NRT. Plus NRT is a good 60-75 minutes from the city, so you won't be running anywhere. Either extend the time in PEK and NRT to 8 hours or just don't bother seeing anything.

I did Japan last year, so no real reason to extend. I will consider with Beijing....

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #1526 on: December 31, 2015, 02:02:09 AM »
EK F JFK - DXB - AMM

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #1527 on: December 31, 2015, 02:07:17 AM »
EK F JFK - DXB - AMM

Nice! For when?

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #1528 on: December 31, 2015, 02:48:59 AM »
Nice! For when?
First half of Jan.

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #1529 on: December 31, 2015, 02:53:30 AM »
Also just finished speaking with BA in Sin to book,
RJ AMM - TLV  J
9K Avios + 167.43

Was kind of shocked at the high price of the YQ...
Is that the right price ? Perhaps because it's J ? Didn't have Y class available.

Also was hard to get the 25.00 phone fee waived, they insisted that I can see the booking online, which was not true. After a little back and forth he agreed to waive.

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #1530 on: December 31, 2015, 02:55:32 AM »
Also just finished speaking with BA in Sin to book,
RJ AMM - TLV  J
9K Avios + 167.43

Was kind of shocked at the high price of the YQ...
Is that the right price ? Perhaps because it's J ? Didn't have Y class available.

Also was hard to get the 25.00 phone fee waived, they insisted that I can see the booking online, which was not true. After a little back and forth he agreed to waive.

Yes, that is the correct amount (AMM departure tax is expensive). There is never Y available on that route.

Even if you could have seen it online, you can't book it online.

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #1531 on: December 31, 2015, 07:50:07 AM »
TLV-AMM-AUH-SYD in J and F (on the 77W).

Booked it at the end of AA's availability calendar (end of October) because I'm looking to go about a year from now and to switch it to the A380.

Right now I booked 2 seats (hope to get 4 eventually on the same flight) to maximize the 10% return from the AA card. Will do the other 2 after 2016 comes and I hit two new spend thresholds.

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #1532 on: December 31, 2015, 08:04:09 AM »
Not sure you can get more than 2 on the TLV AMM segment.

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #1533 on: December 31, 2015, 08:05:33 AM »
TLV-AMM-AUH-SYD in J and F (on the 77W).

Booked it at the end of AA's availability calendar (end of October) because I'm looking to go about a year from now and to switch it to the A380.

Right now I booked 2 seats (hope to get 4 eventually on the same flight) to maximize the 10% return from the AA card. Will do the other 2 after 2016 comes and I hit two new spend thresholds.
hoping to book the same route pre-deval, totally forgot to book it in 2015 to for the 10%

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #1534 on: December 31, 2015, 08:06:12 AM »
There's still time! No wait now on the Australian number

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #1535 on: December 31, 2015, 08:50:04 AM »

hoping to book the same route pre-deval, totally forgot to book it in 2015 to for the 10%
no more 10% in 2016 ?
Life is as good as you make it...

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #1536 on: December 31, 2015, 08:53:32 AM »
no more 10% in 2016 ?
More like another 10k in '16. Rebate is capped at 10k.

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #1537 on: December 31, 2015, 08:55:01 AM »
no more 10% in 2016 ?
It's only up to 10k, no? So I would split it

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #1538 on: December 31, 2015, 08:55:55 AM »
It's only up to 10k, no? So I would split it

Split the PNR? Then you have more cancelation fees.

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #1539 on: December 31, 2015, 08:57:08 AM »
Split the PNR? Then you have more cancelation fees.
More motivation to not cancel