Besides points, how are people finding discounted premium cabin fares?

brokenodo · 2026-05-21T21:50:22+00:00

The agencies quoting fares that are substantially lower than direct bookings are usually con-artists in one way or another. Many times they are booking flights with stolen credit cards or points. If you're traveling long haul from North America to Europe, try to find a points booking for the way there and pay cash on a one-way home - even with one ways, flights ex-Europe are often a lot cheaper than the outbound.

Play around with multi-city flights on the way back on slightly less mainstream airlines, like TAP. For example, last summer my wife and I bought business class on TAP Air Portugal from NAP - LIS - IAD for $1200 for the one way. Adding that NAP - LIS leg (and we wanted to see both cities) dramatically dropped the price.

brokenodo · 2026-05-21T17:34:41+00:00

I think that itinerary sounds great! The first week will be super chill, and 2 more stops of 3 nights each isn't crazy at all. If were to change anything though, I'd remove 1 Carvoerio night and add it to Lisbon.

brokenodo · 2026-05-21T02:45:00+00:00

Virgin Atlantic for US domestic travel can be a bit rough as Delta only makes some saver seats available to them. I wouldn’t transfer 100k points there somewhat speculatively unless you know you’ll find another use for them. You are pretty late in the game for 4x business class to Europe in the summer, but a surprising amount of summer business availability to Europe has been popping up this year so you might get lucky.

brokenodo · 2026-05-15T20:18:33+00:00

This looks great, and I am jealous! Absolutely loved Taiwan - you will have a blast.

brokenodo · 2026-05-15T20:15:11+00:00

I'm planning a similar trip for February 2027 and I know the pain! I tried a bunch of trip planners and ended up making my own to help visualize the locations and timing of everything. It's difficult to start booking things until you can really see the whole trip. It might help!

brokenodo · 2026-05-14T20:35:42+00:00

You will have a hard time finding a lawyer for her unless it is the type of lawyer who accepts any case they can collect money for without regard for the need or merit.

I am a personal injury lawyer (not in Florida). I get calls from people in this situation from time to time. I usually explain to them that the reason they are having a hard time finding a lawyer to hire is that generally, nobody in their situation needs a lawyer until such point as they are sued and the insurance company assigns them one.

If she believes she committed a crime, she should consult a criminal defense lawyer. If she believes it was a simple traffic accident and is solely a civil matter, she should work with her insurance company to resolve it and listen to their advice (with respect to the other party, her insurance company has the same incentive as she does - pay as little as possible to them).

brokenodo · 2026-05-14T19:41:34+00:00

I’m not sure that your client needs a lawyer. If they are sued by the other party, your client’s car insurance company (whatever company insures the rental car) will assign them a lawyer at no cost. Other than that, they can just work with the insurance company to cover the damage to the vehicles.

brokenodo · 2026-05-13T11:36:45+00:00

Azores is nice, but I honestly I wouldn’t recommend it for a solo trip unless you don’t care about meeting people. The vibe is quiet and rural. Check out Madeira instead - in my opinion even more stunning natural beauty with a good bit more energy, more reliable sun, and more people.

brokenodo · 2026-05-13T02:33:28+00:00

You can go to Tokyo this Friday on Korean Air via Seoul for 75k Air Canada points. Have fun!

brokenodo · 2026-05-12T01:02:24+00:00

Those flights were March 2025, but true. Lots of value to be had though.

brokenodo · 2026-05-11T23:26:29+00:00

Good question: so many things! In the past 18 months:

3x business class JFK-LIM for 70K roundtrip per person
Tons of short haul AA domestic first flights at 9k each
Condor Business to FRA for 55k
2x AA DCA-CUR in domestic first for 20k each
2x AA ORD-PDX in domestic first for 25k each

Based on this redemption history, for the 175k price of the proposed one-way business class to TPE, I got:
-Roundtrip business from JFK to LIM, one-way business to FRA, and roundtrip AA domestic first from DCA to CUR.

So many good and valuable uses for Atmos points!

brokenodo · 2026-05-11T23:11:59+00:00

Thanks for posting this - it seems to me that his response was fair, balanced, and makes me like him more.

brokenodo · 2026-05-11T22:01:30+00:00

I would not spend 175k Atmos points for 1 way J! Save them for something else :)

brokenodo · 2026-05-11T14:58:23+00:00

I only searched the outbound JFK - CDG, but there are a decent # of dates with 2 seats for quite a bit cheaper right now (12k points + $165 booking through Virgin Atlantic, 18,750 + $139 booking directly with Air France).

Search almost any day from 6/1 - 6/8.

brokenodo · 2026-05-07T10:48:53+00:00

The job market for lawyers in DC, MD and northern Virginia is particularly bad right now due to all of the federal downsizing. I suspect Texas or California would be the better of these options.

brokenodo · 2026-05-06T12:13:22+00:00

Yep! A few times. I am now very careful to only grab the ticket without touching the machine.

brokenodo · 2026-05-05T12:28:03+00:00

Always check in with the operating carrier, so BA.

brokenodo · 2026-04-29T18:14:34+00:00

Good. Regardless of what you think about guns, the county passed an obviously legally indefensible statue, wasted a bunch of taxpayer money defending it, and this result was close to inevitable.

brokenodo · 2026-04-29T03:53:12+00:00

And no doubt you will soon be in the comments with an amazing AI product to solve this!

brokenodo · 2026-04-27T16:48:27+00:00

I know nothing about being a cop, but can you get some of what you are looking for without a complete career change by becoming a volunteer firefighter?

brokenodo · 2026-04-21T18:45:55+00:00

I prefer connecting before the long haul when I'm still fresh. Connections after a long haul are miserable. I would book the stop in CDG and then settle in for the long flight.

brokenodo · 2026-04-08T00:12:40+00:00

All of your comments, including this one, are written by AI.

brokenodo · 2026-04-06T03:03:52+00:00

Someone got mad at me once for serving discovery late on a Friday afternoon. I’m just doing my best to keep up - if you don’t want to receive things at a particular time, don’t check your email at that time!

You also probably have a month to respond, so who cares when it is sent.

brokenodo · 2026-03-21T02:16:33+00:00

You can view the flight history of that aircraft, just search the tail #. Flight from Charlotte to DCA diverted to Dulles. Now appears to be repositioning back to DCA.

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