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Re: Discussion About The Rare Award Space Master Thread
« Reply #60 on: July 30, 2018, 06:52:37 PM »
The option, not the availablity tho...
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Re: Discussion About The Rare Award Space Master Thread
« Reply #62 on: August 02, 2018, 11:53:52 AM »

Thanks!
Didn't see the post, Telegram seems to be screwed up again.
Twitter alerts are the way to go.
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Re: Discussion About The Rare Award Space Master Thread
« Reply #63 on: August 02, 2018, 11:59:25 AM »
Twitter alerts are the way to go.
Agreed. But when I see something I want to read but not just yet I have to let it sit there and clog up my notification bar. When I don't look for a few hours I can have hundreds of notifications sitting there.
Telegram oth gets consolidated to one notification, and when I'm ready to go through the posts I started from the last unread message and move down.
The in app browser is nice as well.
The Disadvantage of it, aside from missing notifications often is if there is a post that stands out that I do want to read right then (this post would be a good example) it'll mark all posts since I last opened the app as read.
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Re: Discussion About The Rare Award Space Master Thread
« Reply #64 on: August 02, 2018, 12:03:30 PM »
IAD-TLV many dates in business class.
they didn't leave a single seat in neither J or Y
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Re: Discussion About The Rare Award Space Master Thread
« Reply #65 on: August 02, 2018, 02:31:16 PM »
Twitter alerts are the way to go.
Twitter alerts are also screwy today. Didnt get the wide open J post.
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Re: Discussion About The Rare Award Space Master Thread
« Reply #66 on: August 02, 2018, 02:43:00 PM »
Twitter alerts are also screwy today. Didnt get the wide open J post.
SMS or app push notifications?
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Re: Discussion About The Rare Award Space Master Thread
« Reply #67 on: August 02, 2018, 02:46:17 PM »
SMS or app push notifications?
App push
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Re: Discussion About The Rare Award Space Master Thread
« Reply #68 on: August 02, 2018, 02:52:57 PM »
App push
Interesting. Open a Twitter support question?
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Re: Discussion About The Rare Award Space Master Thread
« Reply #69 on: August 02, 2018, 03:39:49 PM »
Interesting. Open a Twitter support question?
Nah, just pay attention to DDF because I knew about it before you posted it. ;D
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Re: Discussion About The Rare Award Space Master Thread
« Reply #70 on: August 02, 2018, 06:32:25 PM »
Any way to search non-stop award on Airfrance/KLM or to search for a particular carrier on the flexible dates search?

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Re: Discussion About The Rare Award Space Master Thread
« Reply #71 on: August 07, 2018, 10:52:28 AM »
Delta so screwed up that for 8/28 shows no saver awards for TLV-JFK (130K points showing) but partner award available for Y on Airfrance and VS

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Re: Discussion About The Rare Award Space Master Thread
« Reply #72 on: August 07, 2018, 01:06:46 PM »
Delta so screwed up that for 8/28 shows no saver awards for TLV-JFK (130K points showing) but partner award available for Y on Airfrance and VS
Delta is pricing it’s saver at 130k that day. They consider for their pricing other elements such as the fare, despite releasing seats to partners.

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Re: Discussion About The Rare Award Space Master Thread
« Reply #73 on: December 14, 2018, 11:08:54 AM »
I fly to Israel 15-20 times a year on Business. Have been doing it for 20 years already. I live in YYZ.

Have been through it all. ELAL, AC, stops, what not. Currently am loyal to United. I hate to pay cash when I know there is a whole world of points.

Every trip is its own parshah. Used to buy 10x ECO upgrade-able books with ELAL, but hated the old plane. The TP status gave nothing. New plane doesn't have the 10 book anymore, and more often than not there is no upgrade, so end up sitting in ECO way to often.

Now I am with UA, and mostly fly AC metal. I credit to UA and am now a 1K. Also worthless, and I fly with stops and ECO way to often. I will not pay more than $3K for a ticket, ever.

I was never into Credit Cards. Now finally I set myself up with Chase cards and am amassing UR. There is no way I will ever do swiping etc, and I don't spend more than 400K a year on cards, so the most points i can get to is about 700K realistically. Obviously will make sure to get signup bonuses to.

BUT... UA to Israel is 180K a way, I simply can't pay that. I know for a fact there is a way to force saver space to 75K one way. Dan bragged about it once when he took his family to Israel for Shavuos, and there is an agent in Monsey who knows it, but only uses it to TLV when he is on the flight.

I suspect someone here can help. I am willing to pay $10,000 for this secret, and am promising not to share it with anyone.




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Re: Discussion About The Rare Award Space Master Thread
« Reply #74 on: May 31, 2019, 01:19:12 AM »
....BUT... UA to Israel is 180K a way, I simply can't pay that. I know for a fact there is a way to force saver space to 75K one way. Dan bragged about it once when...

Might be through having a United explorer card, having that card or a better United card, opens up extended award spaces (meaning you can book tickets for less miles and for and you have more days that you can book tickets using miles) or you can search Dansdeals for the words "plan b" basically that's a way to get a ticket in business/first class even when United doesn't show on their website any availability for miles (they don't always allow you to book tickets using miles, it's called award space [that's what Dan posts when there is rare availability, meaning flights that almost never have tickets available to buy with miles])
All this info I have you here I read up more or less in these posts, they take apart the whole situation very clearly.
I started with this post - https://www.dansdeals.com/points-travel/milespoints/rare-united-polaris-business-class-saver-award-upgrade-space-nonstop-north-america-tel-aviv-3/
And then slowly read through all links he mentioned to understand what he means.
This link is also very good and full of information - https://www.dansdeals.com/credit-cards/earn-60000-miles-united-explorer-card-take-advantage-uniteds-generous-awards/

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Re: Discussion About The Rare Award Space Master Thread
« Reply #75 on: May 31, 2019, 01:50:31 AM »
Might be through having a United explorer card, having that card or a better United card, opens up extended award spaces (meaning you can book tickets for less miles and for and you have more days that you can book tickets using miles)
Dosent help for J.

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Re: Discussion About The Rare Award Space Master Thread
« Reply #76 on: May 31, 2019, 03:55:36 AM »


I suspect someone here can help. I am willing to pay $10,000 for this secret, and am promising not to share it with anyone.

How did I miss this post? Heck, for 10k I'll tell ya.
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Re: Discussion About The Rare Award Space Master Thread
« Reply #77 on: May 31, 2019, 06:50:52 AM »
Might be through having a United explorer card, having that card or a better United card, opens up extended award spaces (meaning you can book tickets for less miles and for and you have more days that you can book tickets using miles) or you can search Dansdeals for the words "plan b" basically that's a way to get a ticket in business/first class even when United doesn't show on their website any availability for miles (they don't always allow you to book tickets using miles, it's called award space [that's what Dan posts when there is rare availability, meaning flights that almost never have tickets available to buy with miles])
All this info I have you here I read up more or less in these posts, they take apart the whole situation very clearly.
I started with this post - https://www.dansdeals.com/points-travel/milespoints/rare-united-polaris-business-class-saver-award-upgrade-space-nonstop-north-america-tel-aviv-3/
And then slowly read through all links he mentioned to understand what he means.
This link is also very good and full of information - https://www.dansdeals.com/credit-cards/earn-60000-miles-united-explorer-card-take-advantage-uniteds-generous-awards/
Uh, no
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Re: Discussion About The Rare Award Space Master Thread
« Reply #78 on: May 31, 2019, 06:51:25 AM »

How did I miss this post? Heck, for 10k I'll tell ya.
What you have is not what he's looking for
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Re: Discussion About The Rare Award Space Master Thread
« Reply #79 on: May 31, 2019, 07:21:08 AM »


What you gave me is not what he's looking for
FTFY :)
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