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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #1960 on: January 22, 2016, 09:41:41 AM »
Booked. TLV-AMM-BAH-DOH-DXB-MEL-SYD-CNS x2
In RJ J,
GF J,
QR (domestic) F x2,
QF A380 F,
QF J x2

Total cost 60k AA and $35.40 x2

That's both Al Safwa and the DXB EK F lounge in one day ;D
I haven't been this pumped in months ;D
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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #1961 on: January 22, 2016, 09:44:46 AM »
Booked. TLV-AMM-BAH-DOH-DXB-MEL-SYD-CNS x2
In RJ J,
GF J,
QR (domestic) F x2,
QF A380 F,
QF J x2

Total cost 60k AA and $35.40 x2

That's both Al Safwa and the DXB EK F lounge in one day ;D
I haven't been this pumped in months ;D
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Nice! When is this for? EK F Lounge? I don't see EK listed as a flight you are taking..
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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #1962 on: January 22, 2016, 09:45:34 AM »
Nice! When is this for? EK F Lounge? I don't see EK listed as a flight you are taking..

QF F ex-DXB gets EK F lounge access

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #1963 on: January 22, 2016, 09:46:14 AM »
QF F gets EK F lounge access

Aha! Missed that part! Nice!
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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #1964 on: January 23, 2016, 08:13:32 AM »
Booked. TLV-AMM-BAH-DOH-DXB-MEL-SYD-CNS x2
In RJ J,
GF J,
QR (domestic) F x2,
QF A380 F,
QF J x2

Total cost 60k AA and $35.40 x2

That's both Al Safwa and the DXB EK F lounge in one day ;D
I haven't been this pumped in months ;D
#BackInTheGame ;D
Nice! Looks like a great itinerary. Chances you'll make tons of changes before you fly?

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #1965 on: January 24, 2016, 09:39:15 PM »
Booked. TLV-AMM-BAH-DOH-DXB-MEL-SYD-CNS x2
In RJ J,
GF J,
QR (domestic) F x2,
QF A380 F,
QF J x2

Total cost 60k AA and $35.40 x2

That's both Al Safwa and the DXB EK F lounge in one day ;D
I haven't been this pumped in months ;D
#BackInTheGame ;D
X2 = for two people?
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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #1966 on: January 25, 2016, 12:10:20 AM »
Why when I check at ba.com they show availability on QF F SYD-MEL-LAX, and when I called AA the agent said she doesn't see anything? she also claims that QF flights are bookable on aa.com...!?

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #1967 on: January 25, 2016, 12:29:56 AM »
Why when I check at ba.com they show availability on QF F SYD-MEL-LAX, and when I called AA the agent said she doesn't see anything? she also claims that QF flights are bookable on aa.com...!?
QF and EF are showing 1 seat.

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #1968 on: January 25, 2016, 12:48:57 AM »
I see it on QF, but the agent from AA said she doesn't see anything!

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #1969 on: January 25, 2016, 02:03:39 AM »
I see it on QF, but the agent from AA said she doesn't see anything!
Have you tried calling AA Australia? Seems that they can often see seats on partner airlines that AA America says are not there.  OTOH QF F seats are notorious for appearing as phantom availability on AA.com, especially recently, where there was a ticketing issue, even with tickets that AA agents could see. 

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #1970 on: January 25, 2016, 05:04:49 AM »
Booked. TLV-AMM-BAH-DOH-DXB-MEL-SYD-CNS x2
In RJ J,
GF J,
QR (domestic) F x2,
QF A380 F,
QF J x2

Total cost 60k AA and $35.40 x2

That's both Al Safwa and the DXB EK F lounge in one day ;D
I haven't been this pumped in months ;D
#BackInTheGame ;D
how are you getting back ?

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #1971 on: January 25, 2016, 03:59:24 PM »
After 4 hours on hold/phone and 6 HUCA I finally got United to book me on a flight Wednesday to TLV after my flight got cancelled from here in the midwest to Newark.

Booked with Singapore Airline miles. Any chance to get Singapore to book me on a Lufthansa flight without charging me taxes? This is what the 2nd to last United rep was trying to convince me.

 Was trying to get on a Lufthansa flight to skip flying to NY altogether.


 
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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #1972 on: January 25, 2016, 09:27:19 PM »
After 4 hours on hold/phone and 6 HUCA I finally got United to book me on a flight Wednesday to TLV after my flight got cancelled from here in the midwest to Newark.

Booked with Singapore Airline miles. Any chance to get Singapore to book me on a Lufthansa flight without charging me taxes? This is what the 2nd to last United rep was trying to convince me.

 Was trying to get on a Lufthansa flight to skip flying to NY altogether.
Your original flight was EWR-TLV booked via SQ on UA? You called UA to protect on different flight, are you protected yet or not?
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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #1973 on: January 25, 2016, 09:47:54 PM »
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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #1974 on: January 25, 2016, 10:48:27 PM »
Your original flight was EWR-TLV booked via SQ on UA? You called UA to protect on different flight, are you protected yet or not?

They put me on Wednesdays flight finally. I can't even tell you how many reps told me I needed to call Singapore. And some tried to confirm me on Lufthansa but after 45 talking to Lufthansa came back to tell me they couldn't convert the award ticket to a revenue seat.
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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #1975 on: January 26, 2016, 09:35:21 AM »
Nice! Looks like a great itinerary. Chances you'll make tons of changes before you fly?
Chances that I'll make changes on the first 5 flights are nil. I'd change the last 2 flights if a better option opens up from MEL-CNS, like the non-stop one for example.

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #1976 on: January 26, 2016, 09:38:07 AM »
how are you getting back ?
Not sure yet, but possibly SYD-AUH-AMM-JED on EY a380 F and RJ J on an AA award and JED-FRA-JFK on LH F or a combination of LH F and SQ R on an SQ award.

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #1977 on: January 26, 2016, 09:40:31 AM »
X2 = for two people?
Yes, except for when I'm talking about the products, in which case x2 means two flights. For example we'll be flying QR domestic F on two separate flights.

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #1978 on: January 26, 2016, 12:40:36 PM »
Not sure yet, but possibly SYD-AUH-AMM-JED on EY a380 F and RJ J on an AA award and JED-FRA-JFK on LH F or a combination of LH F and SQ R on an SQ award.

Why the extra AUH-AMM-JED legs and not just AUH-JED on EY 77w?

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #1979 on: January 26, 2016, 12:45:40 PM »
Not sure yet, but possibly SYD-AUH-AMM-JED on EY a380 F and RJ J on an AA award and JED-FRA-JFK on LH F or a combination of LH F and SQ R on an SQ award.
Specifically have an interest in JED? Our just want to cross airports off your list?