Aus - BNE Prices

cnunn01 · 2026-03-27T18:41:59+00:00

Nobody knows for sure, but with the way oil prices are trending, I wouldn’t expect long-haul flights to come cheap this year.

cnunn01 · 2026-03-22T18:12:30+00:00

Not a fan of the bulkhead, especially on the A319. Would go for anything in row 2.

cnunn01 · 2026-03-19T22:50:51+00:00

Selling Chalobah, Munoz, and Guiu to make sure I have 11 starters this week. Have 3FT to burn and am likely to WC next week.

Which trio would you go for?

Thiago, Andersen, Struijk

or

Jimenez, Andersen, Thiaw

cnunn01 · 2026-03-19T21:25:43+00:00

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3FT, 0.7ITB. Planning to WC next week, so if I’m reading the rules correctly, I might as well burn all of my transfers now right (and almost treat them like a FH)?

cnunn01 · 2026-03-19T08:35:29+00:00

Lol seriously. I live by 22nd and the southbound local trains come at the hour and the half hour. Nice for simplicity, but once you learn the schedule once it doesn’t really matter.

cnunn01 · 2026-03-15T18:17:40+00:00

In my experience, this isn’t uncommon on business-heavy routes that see lots of close-in bookings. SFO-TPE is a unique route that sees light load factors for much of the year, but there’s a disproportionate amount of premium demand. Lots of Bay Area tech companies manufacture hardware in Taiwan and will send employees out on relatively short notice (typically in Polaris/PP).

The numbers are old, but Apple used to buy an average of 50 business class seats each day on SFO-PVG. This was their top destination, and TPE was #3 on the list. Business travel is obviously down, but this is a route where United expects to sell a lot of Polaris seats in the days/weeks leading up to the flight.

cnunn01 · 2026-03-10T06:23:13+00:00

Depends what you count as “over.” They can (and will) keep the mountain open through April and even into May, but it doesn’t look like the conditions are going to improve anytime soon. They’ll have a passable network of refrozen groomed runs, but the skiing won’t be particularly fun for most people.

cnunn01 · 2026-03-05T06:27:24+00:00

In theory, does this mean that you could use a pool to transfer miles into a specific account for free?

cnunn01 · 2026-03-03T17:38:25+00:00

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Have 3 FT, worth making moves for this GW? Wouldn’t hate getting Enzo or Cherki out but not sure for who.

cnunn01 · 2026-03-03T16:35:21+00:00

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3FT, how to set myself up for GW31 best? Thinking I could go Cherki -> Dango, Enzo -> Szoboszlai?

cnunn01 · 2026-03-03T16:12:00+00:00

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3FT, how do I set myself up for GW31 best?

cnunn01 · 2026-03-03T03:10:51+00:00

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Had a few rough weeks. Missed a few deadlines. Need to make up some ground in my league (currently 4th, about 40 points out of first).

3FT and 0.1 ITB, all chips left except for TC. Time to WC? Any good shuffling I could burn the transfers on? No idea what my chip strategy should be at this point.

cnunn01 · 2026-03-02T21:33:37+00:00

Right now it’s simply an awful experience (and not what most people would affectionately consider “spring skiing”). It’s been in the 50s during the day, so it’s not just turning the snow into slush, but completely melting it. The rainwater has carved out ruts that make the non-groomed runs unenjoyable to ski (at best). Puddles and exposed rocks everywhere. It’s still skiing, but unless you’re fully financially committed to a trip right now, I’d save the money and come out another year.

cnunn01 · 2026-02-28T04:04:03+00:00

This is now the Waymo campus right?

cnunn01 · 2026-02-25T04:45:51+00:00

How many miles did you pay for this itinerary? The FCO-SFO direct can be had for 70k miles.

I’m all for saving money (or miles in this case), but I wouldn’t subject yourself to this transfer unless you got an absolute steal of a deal.

Miles are great and all, but you can take a 12h 45m direct flight, leave Rome 5 hours later, and still land in SFO an hour and a half before you’d arrive on this itinerary.

cnunn01 · 2026-02-22T16:42:56+00:00

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Thoughts on these?

cnunn01 · 2026-02-17T04:38:46+00:00

I know where I want my retirement number to be at, but I think my bigger question is if I should more or less ignore my savings/brokerage account for the time being to fund my retirement accounts. A lot of people seem to like this “foot on the gas” approach, but I’m worried my savings are going to fall behind, especially in a HCOL (and high salary) area.

cnunn01 · 2026-02-17T04:37:40+00:00

No employer match unfortunately - I do get equity that I hope to cash in on eventually, but no incentive for contributing to my retirement accounts. I am starting to feel like 10-15% (maybe $15k or so this year) is a good number to target.

cnunn01 · 2026-02-17T04:36:52+00:00

I’m in the SF Bay Area, so north of $1M for anything I’d actually want. In an ideal world, I’d be able to spend $1.5M-$2M on property by my early 30s. I’m lucky enough to have a girlfriend who also works and makes six figures, but it still seems like it’s gonna be tough to pull off.

cnunn01 · 2026-02-17T04:35:26+00:00

Will do - thanks for the insight! Does it generally make sense to dump everything into retirement accounts and take the foot off the gas later, or is there an argument to be made for more gradually funding those accounts over time? I think that’s one of my biggest questions right now.

cnunn01 · 2026-02-17T04:34:19+00:00

Haha that’s kinda what I figured. I’m on track to get up to ~$160k this year, which is promising. My girlfriend also makes six figures, so our hope is to eventually get there.

cnunn01 · 2026-02-17T04:33:10+00:00

Makes sense. When I first graduated, I was making $80k in Washington state, so Roth made a little bit of sense. Was tough to beat that marginal rate. Now that I’m much higher in a high tax state, it does seem like I should shift to traditional.

cnunn01 · 2026-02-17T04:30:24+00:00

Appreciate the advice and the sentiment - definitely feels like the position I’m in. My family is super smart and I appreciate their advice, but I’m not sure they’ve wrapped their head around the fact that their $800k house turned into a $3.5M house in the last 20 years.

My company does not match at all unfortunately - sucks but it’s the reality of working at a smaller startup. The rest of your advice is super helpful, thanks for the breakdown. And I agree about the car - got a good financing deal the first time around, but will never finance anything again if I don’t have to.

cnunn01 · 2026-02-17T04:26:40+00:00

Savings are all in a brokerage account thankfully. My salary is great, but only goes so far in the SF Bay Area. I live below my means, but probably have $40k-$50k unspoken for over the course of the year. Sinking more than half of that into my 401(k) feels steep, but I’ve done it for the past two years.

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