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[annielee]

ya.. thats really new..tried few dates.. and there are definitely J seats for AirNZ !!

 

[Guvner]

NZ J seats have been there a while but they were never "bookable". i.e it would error out when you tried to complete the booking, like Air China. This is the first report I've seen of a successful "website only" booking.

 

[Mranderson]

NZ J seats have been there a while but they were never "bookable". i.e it would error out when you tried to complete the booking, like Air China. This is the first report I've seen of a successful "website only" booking.

I did get a NZ J seat last year,it was BOM-SIN-AKL on SQ J and NZ J,which was a pleasant shock

 

[kanada999]

so the gems are there we have to find and dig them

 

[Cynicor]

2 PER-(BKK)-CTS and vv in J. Full miles (80k pp), ~202USD m. Jan 2017
Was going min points but the promo came out so will just buy more to replace them.
Jan BC snow trip.

SIN-NRT-LAX F in April 2016. First legs of Alaskan Heliskiing trip.
SIN-NRT-SEA in J for the bro for same.
99k and 78k plus around $80 each. So good.

 

[travelislife]

As per other thread to get us back from skiing in Hokkaido in Jan 2017.

34k miles + USD$690 in miles buy up + USD$82.60 in taxes + USD$50 in booking fees.

2 passengers, business class.
TG HND-BKK 10:45-15:50
Approx 16 hour layover to have dinner and stay with family and then the following day:
TG BKK-MEL 08:10-21:20

So a successful screen shot redemption!

 

[Guvner]

As per other thread to get us back from skiing in Hokkaido in Jan 2017.

34k miles + USD$690 in miles buy up + USD$82.60 in taxes + USD$50 in booking fees.

2 passengers, business class.
TG HND-BKK 10:45-15:50
Approx 16 hour layover to have dinner and stay with family and then the following day:
TG BKK-MEL 08:10-21:20

So a successful screen shot redemption!

Nice, and hopefully the A350 BKK-MEL.

 

[travelislife]

Nice, and hopefully the A350 BKK-MEL.

Hopefully! My outbound flight on 24th December is MEL-BKK, so hopefully on that too. They still have it loaded in their schedule starting around July 1st, but, and it's a big but, they haven't had their first aircraft delivered yet and I am sure it will do some short domestic and intra Asia familiarity flights first.

 

[aaronjames000]

Just booked MUC-BKK-SYD on TG in First class for 115k miles and $101USD taxes + $25USD booking fee for travel 18th June...

All booked on the website... no screenshots (HOORAY FOR THAT!)...

Super excited to give it a whirl!

 

[Gold Member]

Just booked MUC-BKK-SYD on TG in First class for 115k miles and $101USD taxes + $25USD booking fee for travel 18th June...

All booked on the website... no screenshots (HOORAY FOR THAT!)...

Super excited to give it a whirl!

I booked the same itinerary online about 2 months ago for June 22nd! Too easy eh

 

[sighing]

I have to say I'm mighty impressed with the LM Support Call Centre having booked the following over the course of the last week and using current LM promotion -

All flights are Sep-Oct 2016.

2 x SYD-BKK TG F (18 hr layover) then BKK - HKG TG F for 50K pp plus taxes/fees

we'll spend a couple of days in HKG and then...

2 x HKG-ICN-CEB OZ J 22.5K pp plus taxes/fees (done online, no screenshot method required)

2 x CEB-ICN (9.5 hr layover) then ICN-SIN OZ J and finally SIN-SYD SQ J (A380) for 40K pp plus taxes/fees

This last one was interesting. I originally did screenshot method for all OZ from CEB-ICN-SYD. When speaking to call centre, agent helpfully pointed out the last sector (ICN-SYD) was in Y not J. I must have missed this when sending screenshots through but agent was absolutely correct. When I sounded less than enthusiastic about this, the agent went off and found OZ flights from CEB to SIN (via ICN) and then got us onto SQ A380 in J back to Sydney.

Great service by the call centre and very proactive by the various agents I spoke with. Definitely makes up for the silly online booking engine deficiencies in my opinion.

 

[Guvner]

SIN-SYD SQ J (A380) .... interesting...

 

[VAG newbie]

I have to say I'm mighty impressed with the LM Support Call Centre having booked the following over the course of the last week and using current LM promotion -

All flights are Sep-Oct 2016.

2 x SYD-BKK TG F (18 hr layover) then BKK - HKG TG F for 50K pp plus taxes/fees

we'll spend a couple of days in HKG and then...

2 x HKG-ICN-CEB OZ J 22.5K pp plus taxes/fees (done online, no screenshot method required)

2 x CEB-ICN (9.5 hr layover) then ICN-SIN OZ J and finally SIN-SYD SQ J (A380) for 40K pp plus taxes/fees

This last one was interesting. I originally did screenshot method for all OZ from CEB-ICN-SYD. When speaking to call centre, agent helpfully pointed out the last sector (ICN-SYD) was in Y not J. I must have missed this when sending screenshots through but agent was absolutely correct. When I sounded less than enthusiastic about this, the agent went off and found OZ flights from CEB to SIN (via ICN) and then got us onto SQ A380 in J back to Sydney.

Great service by the call centre and very proactive by the various agents I spoke with. Definitely makes up for the silly online booking engine deficiencies in my opinion.

Did you get the name of the agent???

 

[sighing]

SIN-SYD SQ J (A380) .... interesting...

I thought so too. I couldn't even get that with KF Saver - only Standard Award is available via Singapore Airlines for that flight.

 

[sighing]

Did you get the name of the agent???

Unfortunately not the agent who came back with the SQ option.

 

[coolkid101]

This last one was interesting. I originally did screenshot method for all OZ from CEB-ICN-SYD. When speaking to call centre, agent helpfully pointed out the last sector (ICN-SYD) was in Y not J. I must have missed this when sending screenshots through but agent was absolutely correct. When I sounded less than enthusiastic about this, the agent went off and found OZ flights from CEB to SIN (via ICN) and then got us onto SQ A380 in J back to Sydney.

Great service by the call centre and very proactive by the various agents I spoke with. Definitely makes up for the silly online booking engine deficiencies in my opinion.

well done on getting that SQ flight -- thought they were gone for the forseeable future. there was a time when screenshots were first being used when flights like ADL-SIN-CTS SQ-TG showed to give the option of just asking for the ADL-SIN sector but even that's gone now AFAIK

 

[vae086]

Pretty boring one but just ticketed this morning via screenshot:

ZRH-PEKx-BKKx-PER on LX-TG-TG for 2 x J in OCT 2016
170000 + 178.72 USD

Sent email yesterday evening, itinerary received this morning, called them to pay and tickets issued not long after. Very quick this time round

 

[travelislife]

They do seem really efficient with this screen shot caper these days.

 

[hummel]

They do seem really efficient with this screen shot caper these days.

Just imagine if they fixed the website!

 

[travelislife]

I imagine the availability probably ends up better this way for people who know how to use the screenshot method!