Author Topic: El-al dropping UP, adding new seating options, and flying direct to San Fran!!!  (Read 16243 times)

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On sale now $1399, cheaper than United's $1599
https://www.elal.com/en/USA/Deals/Pages/SFO-New-0118.aspx
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On sale now $1399, cheaper than United's $1599
https://www.elal.com/en/USA/Deals/Pages/SFO-New-0118.aspx
Probably won't be more than a few hours until United matches

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Probably won't be more than a few hours until United matches
United lost their monopoly there

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United lost their monopoly there

SFO-TLV still an exception market on the high-com contract (2% com vs ??%)

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Interesting, Business class and PE are blocked out for the inaugural flight in both directions. Only economy on sale. Who can they be saving the seats for...?
 18NOV  SUN   TLV/Z‡2     SFO/PST-10                           
1LY       9 C0 I0 D0 Z0 TLVSFO 1250A  530A 789 BD 0 TQS DCA /E 
            J0 R0 X0 W0 Q0 B0 P0 Y9 S9 M9 K9 V9 L9 H9 N9 G9 O 
            U0 E0                                               
 18NOV  SUN   SFO/PST     TLV/‡10                               
1LY   10 C0 I0 D0 SFOTLV      600P  540P‡1 789 BD 0 TQS DCA /E 
         Z0 J0 R0 X0 W0 Q0 B0 P0 Y9 S9 M9 K9 V9 L9 H9 N9 G9 O9 
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they need staff to fly to SFO, in order to operate the first return flight.

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they need staff to fly to SFO, in order to operate the first return flight.
They're not blocking 60 seats for that
And you didn't explain why the return is blocked...

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They're not blocking 60 seats for that
And you didn't explain why the return is blocked...
And they usually would give economy seats to staff.

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And they usually would give economy seats to staff.

not in this case, where they need to operate the return flight.

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not in this case, where they need to operate the return flight.
And you didn't explain why the return is blocked...

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no idea

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LY pushes off UP devaluation, can redeem awards at the old rates until 10/14 (as oppose to 04/30).

"With regard to redeeming points by issuing bonus tickets, Matmid members are entitled to use their rights according to the current price for UP flight bonus tickets, until October 14, 2018."
http://www.flyup.com/en/FrequentFlyers/FrequentFlyersInfo/Pages/UsePoint-0118.aspx

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Starting Oct 28, Berlin (besides Thurs morning) and KBP (besides Fri) will be having business class once again. Departures will still be from terminal 1, so there's no King David Lounge access. R class revenue starts at $769 RT to Berlin and $779 RT to KBP. No minimum stay required.