keefymonster

75% for me.......

jamesflorraine

A quick question, we have 75%, offer we already have flights booked for July, is it a good idea to purchase again, as we probably will not travel again until Late 2014 early 2015 thanks

bcworld

Lifemiles has a transfer promo on. For those who need one way flights...buy your first 1000 mile ball and start playing tennis!

cinderella

Did it stay at 75% when you went through to buy? Mine and OH's showed at 50%, but when I continued to the next page it changed to 100%.

dave76

bc and the rest of the wizzards,

I'm trying to book a trip from SFO to MUC with a stopover in SYD.
I read people here have done it in the past, although you're not supposed to fly North America-Europe via Australia.

My question is how do I best approach this? Give the US rep each segment availability and hope they don't notice, or is there other route like Guam?

thanks

bcworld

I don't think anyone here has done this in the past. People have flown from Australia to North America via Europe which is very different. Typically when people have done this the destination has been the east coast of North America. There is a thing called maximum permitted mileage and it allows travel to the east coast via Europe...it is far less generous for the west coast. Anything involving SFO, SYD and MUC would be massively over MPM.

Also, you don't arbitrarily choose your destination....in this itinerary your destination would be SYD as it is further from SFO then MUC.

That said, this is US and ultimately anything is possible, but you will need a completely clueless agent. You should be looking for SFO-SYD with a MUC stopover and hoping for MPM to be ignored. Expect to pay 110k in J.

dave76

thanks for that. I'll give it a try see how I go.

bcworld

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Koolcat

Ah in such a quandry...we are moving back to the UK in April/May - but dates are uncertain as its basically when we manage to get vehicles sold, all the loose ends tied up etc.

Dont know whether to try and get booked up now with US Airways points under star alliance with Thai...or wait until US airways is a member of One World..

I guess the One World partnership is still a bit unknown but does anyone know what they are like currently for getting Award flights with - do they tend to have decent availability to UK??

I wonder if I book with US Airways with Thai if they would let me change dates if needs be (which i guess would be in April after the merger)

Argh what to do...what to do...

bcworld

You are going to book a oneway? It's an expensive use of miles under the current rules...you could probably buy something cheaper or around the same cost with cash with a bit of shopping around.

If I was considering a oneway I'd be looking at LifeMiles who are currently running a promo. I have heard from others though that April/May availability is not looking so good at the moment.

Also, US will not be able to change your Thai dates after March 30...US will no longer have access to the inventory to do so...you can take that to the bank even when other things are uncertain. US is maintaining relationships with some partners but TG is not one of them, nor is Eva who would also give you a nice option from BNE.

Nothing is guaranteed about what the situation will be on Mar 31st. Will OneWorld redemption be immediately available? We don't know. Will the award chart be the same? We don't know. Will the rules be the same? We don't know.

dave76

Ha! It worked. And it worked with the most knowledgeable rep I talked to so far. Very complicated itinerary though. 110k in J + taxes.

bcworld

C'mon then...details!

Koolcat

Ah thank you so much BCWorld - wish I lived closer to you so i could buy you a case of beer to say cheers

Koolcat

So ive just joined lifemiles and done a search for BNE to NCL oneway for May and its coming up all sold out. Not sure if this is right or if its because I have no miles in my account yet. But it sounds like availability is low like you said BC World.

Anyhoo my car sold this morning so its looking like we will be flying on 2nd May if I can get some flights booked up. I might save the US airways points for a trip back to sunny Oz next year - so trying to work out who best to book with for getting home to NCL.

Does anyone recommend any particular websites for searching for 'cheapish' business class fares?? if there is such a thing lol

Ballys

Hi BC World,
Just topped up Life Miles I need to fly from BCN to BKK on 18th May 2014 using Life Miles but shows sold out. Is there any other alternative? Thanks