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priznat posted:I知 flying for business in a couple weeks (YVR<-> YYZ, about a 4-5 hour flight depending on direction) and I知 eyeing the Air Canada seat upgrade bids. Are these a worthwhile deal on points for business or premium economy? It depends on what the cost is and how much you value the premium seat for a longer flight like that. 27k for PE seems like a decent deal to me, though if you have no other use for those miles and don't travel often, business is not the worst use. I use my Delta miles for upgrades because redeeming them for award flights is a laughable goal in most cases. I usually value premium seats at around $50 an hour, but that's a personal valuation and not any sort of widely applied metric.
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BA finally aligned everyone's tier points year. Gonna suck to book tier points runs but nice to be in sync with my partner now.
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Beef Of Ages posted:What you're seeing is the difference between revenue and award tickets. Airline award tickets have dramatically smaller availability than revenue tickets do for obvious reasons, and booking via the Chase portal is actually booking a revenue ticket from the airline's point of view, but Chase takes points from your account to pay itself back for buying you a revenue ticket via its travel agency (Expedia). So the key is exactly what you're experiencing: find an award flight available on a Chase partner airline, then transfer the points. In almost all cases this is a better value for the points you have, but it's much more difficult to find award space. That's the nature of the game. I know the Chase portal is for revenue tickets, but are you saying that the tickets on airline websites when searching to pay with points may also be revenue tickets, and that's why the points costs are so high? If so, is the only way to find award tickets just to experiment with different days and airports until something reasonable shows up? To give an example, on one random day the cheapest one-way JFK -> AMS on KLM is 68,000 points + $86, ordinarily $458. That's a horrid .5 cents per point, so obviously much cheaper through Chase. So is that a revenue ticket with an awful points rate, and I just need to try different parameters to find the decent award ones?
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runawayturtles posted:I know the Chase portal is for revenue tickets, but are you saying that the tickets on airline websites when searching to pay with points may also be revenue tickets, and that's why the points costs are so high? If so, is the only way to find award tickets just to experiment with different days and airports until something reasonable shows up? Sort of, but not quite. Super helpful, I know. For most airlines, including the majors in the US, they have moved to revenue-based pricing for awards. So when you search for an award ticket, it comes from an award bucket but there are (usually) multiple award fare buckets just as their are multiple revenue fare buckets. The non-discount awards have variable pricing that tends to move up and down with the equivalent revenue cost of that particular seat at that time. Thus, the example you provided of the KL seat is indeed a poo poo redemption value. If you can use Chase points for a lower point value on a revenue ticket instead of transfering them 1:1 to FlyingPoo for a redemption, then you got good value from your Chase points. As you noted, other dates/times/destinations will have different point values for redemption so, as always, flexibility is key in finding a good fare, be it an award or a revenue ticket.
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Beef Of Ages posted:Sort of, but not quite. Super helpful, I know. Alright, I understand, thanks. Confirms my decision to eventually move off of travel cards towards straight cash back in the future, lol. I hate this kind of stuff.
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mobby_6kl posted:I think that was to avoid them messing that up too. She was going to some lodge in the middle of a rainforest that required a boat and a 4x4 to get to so who knows how that'd work out. Sometimes the website has multiple options but sometimes they disappear completely. Which happened during my last attempt lol. Still eventually I got the guy to admit that there's a flights with the ~30h layover, but he still didn't want to make the change because it's not "one flight with a connection" or something. Even though it does show up in the booking system. They really want me to take the refund but I just want to go to Koreaaaaa
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priznat posted:I知 flying for business in a couple weeks (YVR<-> YYZ, about a 4-5 hour flight depending on direction) and I知 eyeing the Air Canada seat upgrade bids. Are these a worthwhile deal on points for business or premium economy? If you already paid for the tickets AND that's what they want as the bid to upgrade, I would probably pass, personally, but that's also because I do travel a lot on Aeroplan points and want to maximize their value. TBH if you're not likely to use the points for anything else, given as you're tall and it's a fairly long flight I would probably go for the PE upgrade. But it's certainly not what I would call a good deal.
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HookShot posted:If you already paid for the tickets AND that's what they want as the bid to upgrade, I would probably pass, personally, but that's also because I do travel a lot on Aeroplan points and want to maximize their value. TBH if you're not likely to use the points for anything else, given as you're tall and it's a fairly long flight I would probably go for the PE upgrade. But it's certainly not what I would call a good deal. It ended up not winning the bid on the one way but getting it the other so I am good with that. It was pretty drat cramped on the flight out so I am really looking forward to it! Thankfully a 787 both ways and no clapped out airbuses.
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Is French Bee from NYC to Paris worth the risk of them being a budget airline? Its under $250 one way.
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goodness posted:Is French Bee from NYC to Paris worth the risk of them being a budget airline? Its under $250 one way. It depends on what you're looking for. Is it a risk in terms of them operating as an airline? Probably not? They have to pass the same quality and maintenance procedures as any other airline that flies in Europe and the US so I wouldn't worry about it from that standpoint. It is a risk to your sanity from being crammed into tiny seats for many hours? Yeah, probably. Their standard Y seat is only 16 inches which is ludicrously tiny. Most airlines offer Y seats that are between 17 and 18 inches wide and that inch makes a really big difference, especially for a transatlantic flight. But that's all personal comfort issues; if all you care about is getting to Paris and you're not a large person, go for it.
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goodness posted:Is French Bee from NYC to Paris worth the risk of them being a budget airline? Its under $250 one way. Are you only flying one way? If you either have date flexibility or are willing to connect, I壇 expect to find AF or AA/BA for 550 or 600 round trip, and the difference between flying them and goddamn French bee is worth fifty bucks (or less if you want to check a bag or eat on the plane or such)
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Jean-Paul Shartre posted:Are you only flying one way? If you either have date flexibility or are willing to connect, I壇 expect to find AF or AA/BA for 550 or 600 round trip, and the difference between flying them and goddamn French bee is worth fifty bucks (or less if you want to check a bag or eat on the plane or such) I wish, coming back from Oslo on Norse Atlantic.
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goodness posted:I wish, coming back from Oslo on Norse Atlantic. I see you've embraced the new "Glutton For Punishment" fares.
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Beef Of Ages posted:I see you've embraced the new "Glutton For Punishment" fares. At least until they gently caress me over once. But yeah its worth saving hundreds of dollars. That is a lot of food in a fun place. For a long flight I'll just take a big weed edible and pass out for the overnight haul.
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goodness posted:At least until they gently caress me over once. But yeah its worth saving hundreds of dollars. That is a lot of food in a fun place. This is the way. poo poo, I'll do that in business class sometimes, but only after we climb above 10,000 feet. Ain't nobody need to try evacuating while stoned off your tits.
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I have a credit I have to use to book by May 22nd on Delta. A friend and I are taking a trip to Mexico City in late October/Early November, I know the sweet spot for booking is usually 30-60 days out from the trip; what is the likely impact to price for booking this early out? Since I'm the one with the credits, I want to cover part of his ticket to make up for the sub-optimal booking time, I was thinking like $150-$200 (ticket prices we're looking at are $700-$900 after taxes); does that seem pretty reasonable? EDIT: It's worth noting that Delta is offering the cheapest non-Volaris non-stop flights from Seattle to Mexico City, so I don't need to worry about airline price differentiation. Ham Equity fucked around with this message at 20:31 on Apr 8, 2024 |
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What kind of credits are these? If they're attached to a ticket number, then I don't believe you can use them for someone else as the names have to match on the credit and the new ticket. In any event, if the value is about to expire, book something else with it now the cancel it once it tickets. Boom, new credit with an extended expiration date.
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Beef Of Ages posted:What kind of credits are these? If they're attached to a ticket number, then I don't believe you can use them for someone else as the names have to match on the credit and the new ticket. Ham Equity fucked around with this message at 21:37 on Apr 8, 2024 |
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Ham Equity posted:Credit is for $707, which is likely gonna be a little less than my airfare alone after taxes/fees. I really don't want to risk losing this if there's some weird edge policy regarding credits on cancellations that you spend credits on. I don't see a risk here at all. Your credit is stored value against a previously canceled ticket. When you use that credit toward a new ticket, the new ticket number now holds the flight coupon that represents the value of the ticket. If you then cancel that new ticket, the process starts over again with the value being associated to the new ticket number with a new expiration date. While it is a slightly different application, I did this recently to prevent some orphaned AA miles from expiring. I booked a cheap award, waited for it to ticket, then canceled and redeposited the miles. The expiration date reset to whatever their current window for non-elites is and we all move on. No big deal.
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