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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #2560 on: September 05, 2016, 09:08:15 AM »
How far in advance did you book?  Where are you stopping?
Direct.

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #2561 on: September 05, 2016, 11:19:26 AM »
Life is as good as you make it...

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #2562 on: September 05, 2016, 11:33:25 PM »
JFK-HNL-JFK
DL J
45K KE
2015: 116K bkd | 1.6M brnd | F: OZ,NH,AA,EK | J: UA,CA,TK,DL,TN,AF,VA | LIH,NRT,ROR,PEK,CNS,BOB,MEL,TLV & Pacific Hopper

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #2563 on: September 05, 2016, 11:34:34 PM »
JFK-HNL-JFK
DL J
45K KE
That's an awesome deal!

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #2564 on: September 05, 2016, 11:45:51 PM »
JFK-HNL-JFK
DL J
45K KE

Nice, seems to be value of 3.5-4.0 cpp. Wish I was able to take off around this time of year.

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #2565 on: September 06, 2016, 12:08:12 AM »

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #2566 on: September 06, 2016, 02:41:16 AM »
I am so exited right now since I just closed the jaw for our award flight in Singapore suite class!!! We booked the OW return from Kuala Lumpur to tel aviv before the AA devaluation, later we saw availablility for outbound OW to Tokyo and suitely closed the jaw 😎😎😎

TLV - IST - ICN - NRT (UA J - 65k UA)
NRT - SIN (SQ Suites - 51k KF)
KUL - AMM - TLV (RJ J - 30k AA)
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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #2567 on: September 06, 2016, 03:56:00 AM »
I am so exited right now since I just closed the jaw for our award flight in Singapore suite class!!! We booked the OW return from Kuala Lumpur to tel aviv before the AA devaluation, later we saw availablility for outbound OW to Tokyo and suitely closed the jaw 😎😎😎

TLV - IST - ICN - NRT (UA J - 65k UA)
NRT - SIN (SQ Suites - 51k KF)
KUL - AMM - TLV (RJ J - 30k AA)

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #2568 on: September 12, 2016, 12:46:49 AM »
By no means an aspirational award, though southwest companion pass travel, makes excellent price awards. 3,006 for OAK to SNA x2. About a third the price of what short haul Avios used to be for this distance.

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #2569 on: September 12, 2016, 01:15:56 AM »
Not really an award travel, but I booked EWR-BOM-BLR-DEL-EWR on mostly UA J. Bh not the 2-4-2 J cabin.

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #2570 on: September 19, 2016, 01:42:00 PM »
2 pax JFK-TLV in December using 50K Flying Blue miles each (unfortunately, it's not for me  :()

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #2571 on: September 19, 2016, 10:05:47 PM »
2 pax JFK-TLV in December using 50K Flying Blue miles each (unfortunately, it's not for me  :()
Flying with?

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #2572 on: September 20, 2016, 01:24:24 AM »
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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #2573 on: September 20, 2016, 01:58:20 AM »
AF? Isnt 50k economy
Yes, 50k economy on skyteam.

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #2574 on: September 20, 2016, 10:31:15 AM »
I am so exited right now since I just closed the jaw for our award flight in Singapore suite class!!! We booked the OW return from Kuala Lumpur to tel aviv before the AA devaluation, later we saw availablility for outbound OW to Tokyo and suitely closed the jaw 😎😎😎

TLV - IST - ICN - NRT (UA J - 65k UA)
NRT - SIN (SQ Suites - 51k KF)
KUL - AMM - TLV (RJ J - 30k AA)
Why did you book the outbound with UA as opposed to AA?

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #2575 on: September 20, 2016, 11:02:59 AM »
Why did you book the outbound with UA as opposed to AA?
B.c. AA (oneworld) doesn't fly to TYO from TLV, at least not that I'm aware of... (and I didn't see any availability if there was). Also were looking to empty out AA points before devaluation so we booked several Asia flights in J and pretty much emptied our AA currency (at the time)

flying RJ between TLV/KUL has pretty good availability...
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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #2576 on: September 20, 2016, 11:06:03 AM »


B.c. AA (oneworld) doesn't fly to TYO from TLV, at least not that I'm aware of... (and I didn't see any availability if there was).
They most def do. Availability is actually pretty good once you get past AMM.

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #2577 on: September 20, 2016, 11:37:18 AM »
They most def do. Availability is actually pretty good once you get past AMM.
Ok, but not on RJ? I just did a quick Google search for one world from AMM to TYO and nothing was direct. I see options with Qatar, didn't think about that one... probably their  J is awesome. Can I book a mutli-airline flight like that though? TLV - AMM on RJ and then continue on a different one world partner?

TBH we didn't know where we wanted to go.. we booked it speculatively...
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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #2578 on: September 20, 2016, 11:39:25 AM »
Ok, but not on RJ? I just did a quick Google search for one world from AMM to TYO and nothing was direct. I see options with Qatar, didn't think about that one... probably their  J is awesome. Can I book a mutli-airline flight like that though? TLV - AMM on RJ and then continue on a different one world partner?

TBH we didn't know where we wanted to go.. we booked it speculatively...
Yes you can mix any airlines. And correct that you would need an additional stop.

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #2579 on: September 20, 2016, 11:41:17 AM »
Yes you can mix any airlines. And correct that you would need an additional stop.
That is cool. Didn't think about that too much. Will definitely look into that for next trip.. thanks for the idea!!

I assume u need to book multi airline ticket thru rep? Esp Qatar didnt seem to be bookable on the AA site...
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