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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #4840 on: January 12, 2020, 12:09:06 AM »
Nice

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #4841 on: January 14, 2020, 11:47:26 AM »
TLV-LHR-JFK VS PE 33.5k VS +$218.31
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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #4842 on: January 14, 2020, 12:06:02 PM »
40k AA for CX J HKG-TLV. Crazy value.

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #4843 on: January 14, 2020, 01:21:34 PM »
40k AA for CX J HKG-TLV. Crazy value.
WOW good for you that is great

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #4844 on: January 14, 2020, 01:26:49 PM »
40k AA for CX J HKG-TLV. Crazy value.
Was looking in the other direction. They had TLV-HKG-NRT-JFK with a day each in HKG and NRT for 120k with the last leg in JAL F!!!
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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #4845 on: January 14, 2020, 01:35:21 PM »
WOW good for you that is great
Was looking in the other direction. They had TLV-HKG-NRT-JFK with a day each in HKG and NRT for 120k with the last leg in JAL F!!!
Second week in a row i took 2k+ out of Cathay's wallet.

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #4846 on: January 14, 2020, 01:38:25 PM »
40k AA for CX J HKG-TLV. Crazy value.

Gr8 value.

AA has some good value on that side of the world.

I did MLE-DOH-JNB-CPT for 55k in J.
Always praying for delayed baggage.

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #4847 on: January 14, 2020, 06:26:30 PM »
40k AA for CX J HKG-TLV. Crazy value.
great redemption.
45k CX with the transfer bonuses is almost the same.
Second week in a row i took 2k+ out of Cathay's wallet.
I wouldn't exactly call it that.
Gr8 value.

AA has some good value on that side of the world.
As do most airlines.
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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #4848 on: January 14, 2020, 06:36:14 PM »
I wouldn't exactly call it that.
When the other option is paying cash for that flight, then you would. Business travel.

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #4849 on: January 14, 2020, 06:52:52 PM »
When the other option is paying cash for that flight, then you would. Business travel.
Certainly would not.
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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #4850 on: February 06, 2020, 12:59:34 AM »
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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #4851 on: February 13, 2020, 11:31:03 PM »
LGA-MSP-ANC-FAI-SCC-BRW-ANC-FAI-ANC-JNU-PSG-WRG-KTN-SEA-JFK... all in coach, and over 5 days. Gonna be fun ;D.

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #4852 on: February 13, 2020, 11:41:22 PM »
Is this bonkers?

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #4853 on: February 14, 2020, 12:25:20 AM »
LGA-MSP-ANC-FAI-SCC-BRW-ANC-FAI-ANC-JNU-PSG-WRG-KTN-SEA-JFK... all in coach, and over 5 days. Gonna be fun ;D.

1.5 days in Homer with the bald eagles, 1 day in Barrow, 3 hours in Prudhoe Bay, 1 night in Fairbanks looking for the aurora, and the Alaska Milk Run on the way home.


Awesome! Cost?
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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #4854 on: February 14, 2020, 01:50:28 AM »
Is this bonkers?

It's all relative ;D

Awesome! Cost?

Not cheap, being 3 days away... Mainly booked using UR @1.25 and a TYP account @1 that needed to be liquidated, so no huge metzios. A couple of the AS legs were 7.5k vs. a few hundred bucks, so that was nice. Overall cost was just around 100k of various currencies in 6 different PNRs.
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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #4855 on: February 14, 2020, 12:07:13 PM »
It's all relative ;D

Not cheap, being 3 days away... Mainly booked using UR @1.25 and a TYP account @1 that needed to be liquidated, so no huge metzios. A couple of the AS legs were 7.5k vs. a few hundred bucks, so that was nice. Overall cost was just around 100k of various currencies in 6 different PNRs.
Wow, that's insane! Sounds fun though. AK is a great state, it's just a shame things are so far from each other.

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #4856 on: February 14, 2020, 12:08:14 PM »
LGA-MSP-ANC-FAI-SCC-BRW-ANC-FAI-ANC-JNU-PSG-WRG-KTN-SEA-JFK... all in coach, and over 5 days. Gonna be fun ;D.

1.5 days in Homer with the bald eagles, 1 day in Barrow, 3 hours in Prudhoe Bay, 1 night in Fairbanks looking for the aurora, and the Alaska Milk Run on the way home.


Will we be getting a TR?
Always praying for delayed baggage.

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #4857 on: February 14, 2020, 12:08:46 PM »
LGA-MSP-ANC-FAI-SCC-BRW-ANC-FAI-ANC-JNU-PSG-WRG-KTN-SEA-JFK... all in coach, and over 5 days. Gonna be fun ;D.

1.5 days in Homer with the bald eagles, 1 day in Barrow, 3 hours in Prudhoe Bay, 1 night in Fairbanks looking for the aurora, and the Alaska Milk Run on the way home.


Holy cow.
This needs an separate milk run thread.
Save your time, I don't answer PM. Post it in the forum and a dedicated DDF'er will get back to you as soon as possible.

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #4858 on: February 14, 2020, 06:07:51 PM »
Den-IAD-LIS-TLV J  on TAP (lie flat from LIS-TLV)
TLV-EWR Y on UA

Dec. 9-20 (Hannukah)

84.5k ANA and 8350 Yen (about $75)

Almost impossible for me to get 1stop in J from Denver so I was just happy to find this with lie flat all the way to Israel and wanted to let people know TAP has NO fuel fees and great availability from a number of cities. This was less points than a one-way on United!

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #4859 on: February 15, 2020, 05:24:45 PM »
RT JFK-MAD in J lie flat 777/200
105k AA miles x2    March 28th-April 5th
Hopefully Ill get the zodiac seats and not the B/E aerospace shaky seats fingers crossed. Is there a way to tell which one I'm getting?
But overall I think its a great use of about to expire AA miles.
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