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Re: What's the best way to book?
« Reply #2240 on: June 01, 2016, 08:06:56 AM »
Usually it's way more with SQ miles.
JFK-IST-TLV  TK J cost me ~$214 in tax/yq booked with SQ.

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Re: What's the best way to book?
« Reply #2241 on: June 01, 2016, 08:24:14 AM »
JFK-IST-TLV  TK J cost me ~$214 in tax/yq booked with SQ.
But that's from JFK. Guessing it would be more leaving from YUL.

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Re: What's the best way to book?
« Reply #2242 on: June 01, 2016, 08:25:28 AM »
But that's from JFK. Guessing it would be more leaving from YUL.
More tax, but more YQ?

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Re: What's the best way to book?
« Reply #2243 on: June 03, 2016, 10:20:15 AM »
whats the best way to get to hawaii using miles in f/ j? there are no saver awards for all of july on united
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Re: What's the best way to book?
« Reply #2244 on: June 03, 2016, 10:22:48 AM »
whats the best way to get to hawaii using miles in f/ j? there are no saver awards for all of july on united

Best way is via Korean on DL but good luck. Most realistic is probably UA J via SQ

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Re: What's the best way to book?
« Reply #2245 on: June 03, 2016, 10:25:43 AM »
Best way is via Korean on DL but good luck. Most realistic is probably UA J via SQ
no availability on ua j
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Re: What's the best way to book?
« Reply #2246 on: June 03, 2016, 11:14:23 AM »

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Re: What's the best way to book?
« Reply #2247 on: June 03, 2016, 11:55:27 AM »
Plan B.
booking this for a friend, cant risk the complicated process and risk of failure
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Re: What's the best way to book?
« Reply #2248 on: June 03, 2016, 12:07:54 PM »
Plan B.
No availability in either saver Y or J NYC-HNL for all of July, not even with a stop.

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Re: What's the best way to book?
« Reply #2249 on: June 03, 2016, 12:39:33 PM »
whats the best way to get to hawaii using miles in f/ j? there are no saver awards for all of july on united
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Re: What's the best way to book?
« Reply #2250 on: June 03, 2016, 06:00:33 PM »
If searching with delta look for the segments individually & if it's available call fb to put it together
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But still DL wont have J in saver.

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Re: What's the best way to book?
« Reply #2251 on: June 05, 2016, 04:31:05 PM »
I'm looking to book Tlv - ord one way.
I have plenty of aa miles and amex mr and citi Ty but running low on ur.

Air france had a flight which I should have chapped at 42.5 but now t went up to 56.

I was thinking of transferring ur to ba to ib and booking Tlv to mad
And then on aa booking mad to ord.

1. Will Tlv check my bags straight through or will I need to claim them in mad?
2. The aa connection is not great.  Mad to phl phl to Wisconsin and a tight connection to ord.  If anything more direct opens up in saver am I correct that they will give it to me for free.
Thanks.
Any other ideas are appreciated!

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Re: What's the best way to book?
« Reply #2252 on: June 05, 2016, 05:08:08 PM »
whats the best way to get to hawaii using miles in f/ j? there are no saver awards for all of july on united
If it doesnt need to be direct, there are plenty of routes on UA, something is bound to be available.

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Re: What's the best way to book?
« Reply #2253 on: June 05, 2016, 07:00:29 PM »
What's the best way of getting from SYD to JFK with a stopover (~5 days) in LHR?

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Re: What's the best way to book?
« Reply #2254 on: June 05, 2016, 09:12:46 PM »
What's the best way of getting from SYD to JFK with a stopover (~5 days) in LHR?
Ow? if so that'll have to be two separate tickets

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Re: What's the best way to book?
« Reply #2255 on: June 05, 2016, 09:33:24 PM »
Ow? if so that'll have to be two separate tickets

And if it starts in JFK? - JFK-SYD-LHR(stopover)-JFK

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Re: What's the best way to book?
« Reply #2256 on: June 05, 2016, 10:02:10 PM »
Not really familiar with those routing rules offhand.
you can do it with united i think but JFK-SYD will have to be TATL so it wont end up as a RTW ticket
what class you talking?

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Re: What's the best way to book?
« Reply #2257 on: June 05, 2016, 10:43:17 PM »
Not really familiar with those routing rules offhand.
you can do it with united i think but JFK-SYD will have to be TATL so it wont end up as a RTW ticket
what class you talking?
Probably Y

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Re: What's the best way to book?
« Reply #2258 on: June 05, 2016, 11:13:25 PM »
Y NYC - TLV with UA?

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Re: What's the best way to book?
« Reply #2259 on: June 06, 2016, 12:32:36 AM »
Probably Y
Try doing that on united, see if you can get the whole thing for 80k.
route everything over the Atlantic.
You'll have extra taxes leaving london on a 5 day stopover btw.