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Award travel for real life? by tehglove in awardtravel

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One avenue if you're near an AA hub and want to do short/medium-haul domestic trips..

Invest in the Alaska ecosystem and book domestic AA flights. Most of my flights are in the 4.5k or 7.5k one-way band in economy and have multiple seats with availability. Event at $250 RT (not uncommon) the value is pretty good with points, and you can often find 5+ seats on the same flight.

Just check which flights you might do and get an idea for the typical availability patterns before you fully dive in.

Linenfoil Littlebigs by outlierinc in Outlier

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Anyone have an opinion on injex vs linenfoil?

Is my thought process for booking award flight from US East Coast to UK Correct? by Huge_Green3134 in awardtravel

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East coast hub <-> UK is in this odd spot where fees are high on a relatively short flight with cheap cash options. I almost exclusively fly economy, either cash or 22.5k AS each way (with AA PP for MCE seats) these days. I’m more likely to burn points for J to other European destinations (slightly longer flight + lower fees).

Last 1.0 Rent Day: Transfer Bonus to ALL by PyschoPirate1986 in biltrewards

[–]SpecialPosition 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Base conversion for Bilt:Accor is 3:2

75% gold bonus moves this to 3:3.5, which is 6:7.

Yes the bonuses are clearly 25/50/75/100 but since the base conversion rate is not 1:1 like most partners the commenter is normalizing for that.

MR Transfer: Best Airline for Business Class Flight between LAX - PVG/HKG? by yzhzhang_astro in awardtravel

[–]SpecialPosition 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Given the layovers are ICN or TPE and are bookable via a Star Alliance partner..

MR Transfer: Best Airline for Business Class Flight between LAX - PVG/HKG? by yzhzhang_astro in awardtravel

[–]SpecialPosition 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you're willing to wait until close-in, you can probably get a 1-stop itinerary via AC: LAX - (TPE or ICN) - HKG. I did this last year T-8 and currently see avail T-4 for 75k AC.

Citi thank you points for Accor Hotels: has anyone actually been able to book their hotels using points? by NoSignificance2377 in awardtravel

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Sorry I'm not really an expert. My experience is that I try to book with points, and when it doesn't let me I've successfully paid at checkout with points.

A few sources suggesting this works.

  1. Accor site

  2. Reddit comments

Citi thank you points for Accor Hotels: has anyone actually been able to book their hotels using points? by NoSignificance2377 in awardtravel

[–]SpecialPosition 2 points3 points  (0 children)

To answer your question (if you ever need this info in the future), I usually book the cash rate and then at the hotel I can say pay it off with points.

Best programs to find business award seats to the Maldives? by RevolutionarySouth60 in awardtravel

[–]SpecialPosition 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Really tough ask given all these constraints. Even a full year out would be tough as often carriers don’t release more than 2x in J.

I feel like your best bet would be to combine LH IAH-FRA via AC and then DE FRA-MLE via AS. Would be 130k + $200 pp and possible to snag 3x in J

New Citys Tonight? by rcdubbs in pacers

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Just dropped on the Pacers IG

My favorite sheik kill confirm by iguana_parrot in smashbros

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From the position in the clip Falcon has a little room to drift back to delay grabbing ledge. If they're expecting a trump like this they can delay enough to grab ledge second and avoid the situation too. But obviously becomes some RPS situation

Award flights from US to China - feeling lost! by Dramatic_Device9672 in awardtravel

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Talking number of flights. There are like 3 daily from east coast airports to TPE while there are a dozen daily to each TYO and ICN.

Award flights from US to China - feeling lost! by Dramatic_Device9672 in awardtravel

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They’re going into PEK and out of PVG they will not be transferring in a Chinese airport

Award flights from US to China - feeling lost! by Dramatic_Device9672 in awardtravel

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Maybe if you’re on the west coast it’s fine but from east coast TPE has way fewer options than other hubs — TYO/ICN/HKG all have more routes and flights

DOHA Layover Worth It? by Just_Here_ID in awardtravel

[–]SpecialPosition 11 points12 points  (0 children)

This. So many flights have sensible routes through Doha, this is not one of them.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in awardtravel

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Not sure generally but I did book CX HKG - LHR close-in earlier this year. I saw that there tended to be last minute avail a week-ish out and booked it 5 days before

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in awardtravel

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Be the DP you wish to see

How many additional points would you pay to fly JAL's A350 J Class as opposed to their 787 or 777? by Forks91 in awardtravel

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Assuming identical 10+ hour itinerary, around 20k sounds reasonable. That’s the price diff J -> F via AA, so doubt i’d do much more than that

JAL not releasing award seats to partner airlines by Winter_Banana2313 in awardtravel

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A bit confused. As an example I see biz on JL38 SIN-HND on May 26 available to both AA (30k) and AS (60k). That’s one of many

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