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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #5260 on: July 18, 2022, 04:38:52 PM »
Dates?
August 1.  4pm Flight. Still, kind of a unicorn, right?

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #5261 on: July 18, 2022, 04:39:55 PM »
August 1.  4pm Flight. Still, kind of a unicorn, right?
You can stop playing the lottery. Lightning doesn't strike twice.
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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #5262 on: July 18, 2022, 04:46:50 PM »
You can stop playing the lottery. Lightning doesn't strike twice.

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #5263 on: July 18, 2022, 04:50:52 PM »
August 1.  4pm Flight. Still, kind of a unicorn, right?
What about the way back?

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #5264 on: July 18, 2022, 04:51:23 PM »
He prob got one of the AA glitches for that :)

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #5265 on: July 18, 2022, 05:32:14 PM »
August 1.  4pm Flight. Still, kind of a unicorn, right?
Was it just available as you checked? or did you set an alert for availability with expert flyer etc.?

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #5266 on: July 18, 2022, 06:42:34 PM »
It was a random finding — couldn’t believe my eyes!
Was actually looking on United.com for Aug 2 or 3, but the green 77K across the multi-day bar caught my eye.  It didn’t say “Saver” Award, but I was still hopeful it might show up on AC, and sure enough it was there. 

I quickly transferred MR to AC (sadly, no transfer bonus, but that surely would have been a sign of the coming of Moshiach).

I didn’t have any kind of alerts set…just happened upon it!

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #5267 on: July 18, 2022, 06:43:19 PM »
He prob got one of the AA glitches for that :)
No.  Haven’t figured out the way back yet. 

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #5268 on: July 24, 2022, 10:15:24 AM »
JFK-BUD - BUD-JFK J via LOT 140K AC

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #5269 on: July 25, 2022, 01:00:13 PM »
SFO-TLV UA J
51,000 AC + $700 CAD
15AUG
(Could have paid 85,000 AC + $100 CAD)

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #5270 on: July 25, 2022, 01:05:18 PM »
JFK-BUD LO J 70k AC + $46.20 CAD x 2
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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #5271 on: July 25, 2022, 04:53:53 PM »
JFK-BUD LO J 70k AC + $46.20 CAD x 2
Aseres Yemei Teshuva date
HT  ;)

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #5272 on: July 31, 2022, 12:24:24 AM »
JFK-BUD LO J 45k TK + $132 YQ

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #5273 on: July 31, 2022, 03:08:39 AM »
BZE-EWR in UA Y 738 for 12,500 AC Miles = 3.12 CPM.

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #5274 on: July 31, 2022, 07:37:21 AM »
JFK-BUD LO Y 30k LM + $50 YQ

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #5275 on: August 03, 2022, 10:34:46 AM »
Held
TLV-LHR-JFK VS PE 33.5k +175GBP x2
Chol Hamoed Sukkos

Wasn't showing available as a OW but each segment was showing as available. Phone agent was able to book together avoiding APD which would have put cash portion at ~480GBP each.
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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #5276 on: August 03, 2022, 10:46:27 AM »
Held
TLV-LHR-JFK VS PE 33.5k +175GBP x2
Chol Hamoed Sukkos

Wasn't showing available as a OW but each segment was showing as available. Phone agent was able to book together avoiding APD which would have put cash portion at ~480GBP each.

Is that always the case ? In my case the agent said it's not possible to combine it

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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #5277 on: August 03, 2022, 10:48:35 AM »
Is that always the case ? In my case the agent said it's not possible to combine it
Dont know. I still havent booked it. Its on hold. They gave me a PNR so hoping it is legitimate. They said it was a married segment issue but they had a workaround.
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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #5278 on: August 03, 2022, 04:27:04 PM »
Held
TLV-LHR-JFK VS PE 33.5k +175GBP x2
Chol Hamoed Sukkos

Wasn't showing available as a OW but each segment was showing as available. Phone agent was able to book together avoiding APD which would have put cash portion at ~480GBP each.
Booked and Ticketed using UR

Cheapest Routing to get these flights is $2168.53 with throwaway return. 6.4cpp
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Re: What Award Itinerary Did You Just Book/Hold?
« Reply #5279 on: August 05, 2022, 02:51:27 PM »
Held
TLV-LHR-JFK VS PE 33.5k +175GBP x2
Chol Hamoed Sukkos

Wasn't showing available as a OW but each segment was showing as available. Phone agent was able to book together avoiding APD which would have put cash portion at ~480GBP each.
Booked and Ticketed using UR

Cheapest Routing to get these flights is $2168.53 with throwaway return. 6.4cpp

Completed this RT

JFK-LHR-TLV VS PE 33.5K MR +$377 x2

All in 67k MR + 67k UR + $1182 for RT VS PE

Cash price $7,085.86

4.4cpp
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