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So when I'm around Asia, I've typically used Avios points on Cathay Pacific using HKG as a hub for short haul flights, but I'm really hoping that the party isn't over. Just wanted to give anyone else a heads up who is traveling intra Asia and seeing no availability via BA.com. This hasn't been an issue in past peak seasons. Routes like HKG-TPE or BKK-HKG usually have plenty of seats, and I nearly had a panic attack this morning when I saw the results. edit: clarity! Specifically southeast Asia, not Seattle  Also, caberham, you gonna be around in early December? Drinks again!
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The Risk posted:The connection is exactly a little over 30 min and I am doing first class on both flights. We will see if my ORD flight does not get delayed! Assume flight will get delayed. Any weird poo poo can happen
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Oct 26, 2015 04:53
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air- posted:So when I'm around Asia, I've typically used Avios points on Cathay Pacific using HKG as a hub for short haul flights, but I'm really hoping that the party isn't over. Just wanted to give anyone else a heads up who is traveling intra Asia and seeing no availability via BA.com. This hasn't been an issue in past peak seasons. Routes like HKG-TPE or BKK-HKG usually have plenty of seats, and I nearly had a panic attack this morning when I saw the results. Yeah hit me up! I will be back from Europe just in time. Man I'm really bummed about being in OneWorld. Seems like Sky Team is the better deal with world wide coverage. OneWorld is mostly just Cathay in East Asia and I think its European Coverage is sub par. Especially when you are going between Asia and Europe  China Eastern planes sucks compared to Cathay but then cost wise tends to be double. Air France seems to have decent coverage of Europe. Nowadays I give up chasing miles and maintaining any tier status since I don't travel as often for fun or work.
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Oct 26, 2015 05:00
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South America is pretty decent with AA and Lan, no?
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Oct 26, 2015 05:09
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sellouts posted:South America is pretty decent with AA and Lan, no? Yeah American has a bunch of routes. It's always their old lovely planes and surly cabin crew, if you care about those.
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Oct 26, 2015 05:39
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caberham posted:OneWorld is mostly just Cathay in East Asia and I think its European Coverage is sub par. Especially when you are going between Asia and Europe
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Oct 26, 2015 06:39
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Midjack posted:Yeah American has a bunch of routes. It's always their old lovely planes and surly cabin crew, if you care about those. Very much ymmv, best cabin service I've ever had was on an AA flight and I've got almost 1mm with them alone and tens of thousands with Cathay and Qantas. Most of the birds down to SA don't have avod but in economy it's all kind of the same. Just take Lan if you can, especially in premium if the route isn't served by a refurbed 772.
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Oct 26, 2015 07:06
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DJCobol posted:Ha, that's the route I was looking at. BNA-ATL-JFK-NRT-SIN-NRT-JFK-ATL-BNA. If my second card spend MQM bump comes through though, I think just a transcon between ATL and LAX round trip will take care of me. Slight route change TPA-JFK-NRT-SIN-NRT-MSP-TPA for 21k MQMs and solidly into diamond territory. Next weekend is going to suck. I get back into Tampa at 9:30 at night and have to be at work at 6:00 am the next day. Hopefully I can get some sleep at the transit hotel at SIN in my 6 hour turnaround window.
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Oct 26, 2015 11:23
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Small White Dragon posted:Between BA, Iberia, Finnair, Northern Europe is pretty well covered. Below that is just Air Berlin and their affiliate Niki. Nothing in Southern Europe, I guess? I guess the coverage is not so great for me  Or I have trouble coordinating airberlin or multi carrier flight into one itinerary.I fly mostly into Suttgart, Italy and Western Poland so flights are never direct and involve some transfer in London or even 2 transfers into London --> Berlin --> City
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Oct 26, 2015 11:47
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The Risk posted:The connection is exactly a little over 30 min and I am doing first class on both flights. We will see if my ORD flight does not get delayed! If you come into C and out of E, or into E and out of E, you should be fine barring any significant delays. Learn the layout of IAH and what gates are where in advance if you don't already know it and be prepared to hoof it.
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Oct 26, 2015 13:12
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sellouts posted:Very much ymmv, best cabin service I've ever had was on an AA flight and I've got almost 1mm with them alone and tens of thousands with Cathay and Qantas. American has good planes and crew. They don't put them on flights to South America.
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Oct 26, 2015 13:17
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Anyone here have an Eagle Creek gear hauler? I'm doing a fair bit of travel for work, mostly around Europe but a few trips to the US, so I need a carry on bag that doesn't look like I'm going hiking. I don't like mini wheely bags. Is that a decent option? http://shop.eaglecreek.com/gear-hauler/d/1291
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Oct 26, 2015 20:40
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Mackieman posted:If you come into C and out of E, or into E and out of E, you should be fine barring any significant delays. Learn the layout of IAH and what gates are where in advance if you don't already know it and be prepared to hoof it. I made it with plenty of time! My ORD-IAH was on time and my next got delayed so it was all good! At the end of the day it was a C to E departure.
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Oct 26, 2015 21:36
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DJCobol posted:Slight route change You're a monster. I'm already getting sickened by my sea-nrt-sin-nrt-sea mileage run.
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Oct 26, 2015 22:50
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Arzakon posted:You're a monster. I'm already getting sickened by my sea-nrt-sin-nrt-sea mileage run. My flight today finally pushed me into platinum, so I'm hoping that the system updates tomorrow and I'm able to go in and jump up to C+ seats. I'm in the preferred seats, and I have aisle seats all the way there and back. I'm PRAYING that somehow its not a full flight and I can end up with an empty seat next to me. I really hope this is the only time I have to do this. Next year I should have a GUC to apply so I won't have to do this trip in coach. My longest flight to date is about 5 hours, so we'll see how 14+ hours in the air goes. DJCobol fucked around with this message at 23:55 on Oct 26, 2015 |
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Oct 26, 2015 23:51
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Why don't you guys make an actual vacation out of your mileage run?
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Oct 27, 2015 00:22
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I don't have the time off of work right now. It's busy season. I have 2 weeks off over Christmas and I'm going to Europe, so that's my vacation, and a second mileage run (hello BE 50% MQM bump!).
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Oct 27, 2015 00:26
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P.D.B. Fishsticks posted:Well, and working for DoD I've had to stay in base lodging on several occasions which isn't spectacular, but at least at my grade of DoD civilian I get officer quarters. Last year Delta hosed up and made me fly home on an American flight. They refused to give me mileage credit, so I'd guess that you won't get anything for this. DJCobol posted:Slight route change I just did LAX->NRT->TPE in coach on Delta. The booze was plentiful and it helped. MickeyFinn fucked around with this message at 00:47 on Oct 27, 2015 |
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Oct 27, 2015 00:44
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Look I mean I like diamond and all that but no way I would MR over like a BOS-LHR bump or something like that good lord guys. edit: just spend the straight cash on full Y or F and enjoy your life back, that is some flyertalk poo poo for real edit 2: AA guy on the bus, call and bitch and I reckon they'll give you your RDMs.
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Oct 27, 2015 00:45
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:Look I mean I like diamond and all that but no way I would MR over like a BOS-LHR bump or something like that good lord guys. quote:edit: just spend the straight cash on full Y or F and enjoy your life back, that is some flyertalk poo poo for real The whole reason I'm doing it is to get the bonus 25k miles (which will help me out with business class airfare on a 747 before Delta retires them all), and GUCs for trip to Europe so I can do European delivery on a new BMW. The cash differences on those flights is WELL beyond what I'll spend money-wise for this mileage run.
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Oct 27, 2015 02:15
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You can regularly get discounted J to Europe if you stay over a Saturday for like two grand but I mean do your thing man, it's your life and your rear end in the seat.
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Oct 27, 2015 02:43
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DJCobol posted:Prior to this year I've never had any status with any airline, so to have Diamond within reach and not go for it seemed like a waste. I don't think I'll ever do it again if i can't upgrade to 1st class and book far enough out to make a vacation out of it. For this one though, the timing worked out right that by the time I would have flown home from Tampa on Friday, did all my laundry and packed up again Saturday, watched a little bit of football on Sunday before heading to the airport so I could be back in Tampa Sunday night ready to work Monday morning, I will be flying back from MSP into TPA anyways. Yeah that dude bitching about his congealing hog meal is real crazy compared to you who is totally sane on your mileage run. I clear 5-10k from UA everytime I bitch at them for busted headphone jacks and tv controls and those 5k miles are worth more than skypesoes. In case you are wondering, I sleep fine at night on a big bed of miles. Enjoy your DM status.
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Oct 27, 2015 04:02
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DJCobol posted:The whole reason I'm doing it is to get the bonus 25k miles (which will help me out with business class airfare on a 747 before Delta retires them all), and GUCs for trip to Europe so I can do European delivery on a new BMW. The cash differences on those flights is WELL beyond what I'll spend money-wise for this mileage run. Go sign up for some MR AmEx and transfer them to Delta, save yourself a lot of cash and a whole drat weekend of sitting in an airplane.
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Oct 27, 2015 04:26
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Uncle Jam posted:Why don't you guys make an actual vacation out of your mileage run? Oh I am, catching an AirAsia to KUL to hang out with old coworkers and mash curry into my face for a week.
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Oct 27, 2015 04:29
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sellouts posted:Very much ymmv, best cabin service I've ever had was on an AA flight and I've got almost 1mm with them alone and tens of thousands with Cathay and Qantas. I've flown a good deal of TPAC J/F across oneworld carriers and find this hard to believe. QF may be comparable to AA from a service perspective, but CX has by far better service than either of those. The AA FAs make me feel like I am a personal inconvenience for them. JL and CX are excited and happy to treat you while onboard.
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Hey goons, need a hand about booking flights. Trying to stick to Oneworld but I'm having trouble. I'm trying to go from HKG -- > NUE --> CDG --> HKG. Cathay's website allows HKG --> NUE, CDG ---> HKG but the middle leg craps itself. I tried looking into oneworld and that didnt work. Google flights gave super expensive options like triple the price under the same itinerary. Should I just bite the bullet and buy a direct one way trip from Air France? I can fly airberlin but it's a poo poo tier and this trip i really dont want to waste 7 hours for a short haul flight. Is there any other method to check flights and prices and have all the alliance flights play nice with each other? Arzakon posted:Oh I am, catching an AirAsia to KUL to hang out with old coworkers and mash curry into my face for a week. Jealous. Please eat beef rendang and post a picture.
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Oct 27, 2015 05:39
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app posted:I've flown a good deal of TPAC J/F across oneworld carriers and find this hard to believe. QF may be comparable to AA from a service perspective, but CX has by far better service than either of those. The AA FAs make me feel like I am a personal inconvenience for them. JL and CX are excited and happy to treat you while onboard. Trust me, I know. I was shocked too. My most recent lax/hkg in J was weeeeaaaaak service whereas last lhr to dfw I was just in sync with them or something. I'd start to think about a drink and they'd be right there. Clear my tray the second I was done but not before. Just really happy. It's just anecdotal I know. I do agree that QF is the pits. Haven't flown JL premium yet though (because Cathay), hope to do it after my next trip which is slumming it on Emirates economy because I can't pass up a deal.
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I did a mileage run to SFO once to prevent from dropping all the way to Silver. But that only cost me $250 and around 16 hours, including sleeping on the red eye from SFO-DTW. I felt pretty insane doing that. I can't imagine flying across the Pacific in Y for a mileage run. That said, I really want a trip report, preferably live. I've got around ~$1,600 in Delta vouchers that expire in March and don't have any real vacation plans between now and then. So I might do some type of mileage run in February to use them up where I fly somewhere to Anchorage for dinner and then fly home or something. Might as well use them up rather than let them go to waste. I don't know what my travel is going to look like next year so I might need them to hit MQD. I wish MQD rolled over like MQM, this year I'm probably going to end with around $13k in MQD and like 115k MQM so with rollover I'll hit Platinum on miles next year even if I don't travel all that much but might end up well short on MQD.
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Oct 27, 2015 13:47
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Thoguh posted:I did a mileage run to SFO once to prevent from dropping all the way to Silver. But that only cost me $250 and around 16 hours, including sleeping on the red eye from SFO-DTW. I felt pretty insane doing that. I can't imagine flying across the Pacific in Y for a mileage run. That said, I really want a trip report, preferably live.
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Oct 27, 2015 17:06
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How do you guys end up so low on MQD? Long haul highly competitive stuff only? I'm at $19k on 132k MQM.
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Oct 27, 2015 18:58
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:How do you guys end up so low on MQD? Long haul highly competitive stuff only? I'm at $19k on 132k MQM. Most of my trips are midwest to SoCal or midwest to NoVa. I fly out of a smaller airport that is served by all the major airlines and 2 LLCs so prices are competitive. Plus we're required to book the cheapest available Y tickets available (within reason - we can stick to one airline if the price difference is marginal and have a lot of leeway about what itineraries are considered reasonable) for domestic, and all my flights are domestic. If I hadn't had a couple of last minute trips that were full Y fare tickets my MQD to MQM ratio would be pretty dismal.
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Oct 27, 2015 19:14
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:How do you guys end up so low on MQD? Long haul highly competitive stuff only? I'm at $19k on 132k MQM. My MQD is right about in line with my MQM progress, but I have the card spend waiver so I don't really ever look at it.
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Oct 27, 2015 19:25
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I'm at $9k MQD with 50k MQM  In a taxi tonight, there was one of those ad things and it had a loop of like 2 minutes. There was a mute button on screen so I pushed it and BAM to control the audio you need to order the $7.95 'VIP' service. Ugh Taxis.
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Oct 27, 2015 23:32
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No more United out of JFK, not sure how I feel about this.
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Oct 27, 2015 23:36
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Xandu posted:No more United out of JFK, not sure how I feel about this. An outstation with no connections so no big deal? Now you get to try mint? Let Virgin America and Delta battle on price? Beef Of Ages fucked around with this message at 00:07 on Oct 28, 2015 |
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Oct 28, 2015 00:01
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Uncle Jam posted:I'm at $9k MQD with 50k MQM gently caress pretty much any car driven by someone else. Rentals can go to hell too.
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Oct 28, 2015 02:15
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rentals own
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Oct 28, 2015 02:38
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uuuuuuuuuuuuuuber So what do you guys use to find flights again? I here there's some special travel IATA related voodoo travel portal matrix.
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Oct 28, 2015 04:47
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caberham posted:uuuuuuuuuuuuuuber matrix.itasoftware.com
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Midjack posted:gently caress pretty much any car driven by someone else. Rentals can go to hell too. That's why I travel exclusively by hoverboard, helicopter and personal teleporter.
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