US Dividend Miles - Award Booking Questions and General Discussion

[MEL_Traveller]

Re: US Dividend Miles Buy/Gift Miles 100% bonus - Cheap way for F/J *A Awards

When I've been using KVS mobile tool recently though I've seen lots of TG flights showing things like O4 and I9...but the KVS tool itself doesn't match up. I wonder if it's a sign you could grab 2 and immediately get another 2 F...and then all the allocation is gone?

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could be! O4 sounds about right for F9.

 

[bcworld]

Re: US Dividend Miles Buy/Gift Miles 100% bonus - Cheap way for F/J *A Awards

could be! O4 sounds about right for F9.

Hmmm...I wonder if KVS mobile tool is an answer to the old question...'will more seats open up?'

It's not uniform either, so it could be accurate...other times I see O1 or O2 or even OC which I think means closed / exhausted.

 

[hummel]

Re: US Dividend Miles Buy/Gift Miles 100% bonus - Cheap way for F/J *A Awards

Question guys..

Is it worth 10,000 extra miles to fly HKG-BKK in F as opposed to J? I'll be connecting to MEL (so J only) with 90min layover so may be worth getting buggy and stumping up the extra 10,000?

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Re: US Dividend Miles Buy/Gift Miles 100% bonus - Cheap way for F/J *A Awards

Question guys..

Is it worth 10,000 extra miles to fly HKG-BKK in F as opposed to J? I'll be connecting to MEL (so J only) with 90min layover so may be worth getting buggy and stumping up the extra 10,000?

yup.

it's $100 worth on the share mile promo. where else can you fly international First class for $50 bucks surcharge?

 

[legroom]

Friends

How do you deal with the common enough issue of waiting for the inbound legs to show up [to complete your return trip] knowing that the outbound ones which your eyes are glued on might be snapped up by ... another AFFer ?

Chew on your fingernail every morning ?

Lock it in - with a next day return - and change it later (for a fee) when the inbound is available ?

What's the gurus here has been doing ?

Thanks

 

[hummel]

Re: US Dividend Miles Buy/Gift Miles 100% bonus - Cheap way for F/J *A Awards

yup.

it's $100 worth on the share mile promo. where else can you fly international First class for $50 bucks surcharge?

Booking a GUM trip (this is the only F sector) for some reason If I ask for J it's no worries and prices at 30,000 but F is 120,000...

 

[anat0l]

Re: US Dividend Miles Buy/Gift Miles 100% bonus - Cheap way for F/J *A Awards

Is it worth 10,000 extra miles to fly HKG-BKK in F as opposed to J? I'll be connecting to MEL (so J only) with 90min layover so may be worth getting buggy and stumping up the extra 10,000?

I was going to say if the rest of the itinerary is F anyway then is this really a question. Saw the rest of your post, but irrespective...

yup.

it's $100 worth on the share mile promo. where else can you fly international First class for $50 bucks surcharge?

Is there any time you're going to answer "no"? Joking, but anyway...

I believe you meant to say that it's USD 100 worth without the Share Miles promo (alright, plus a little bit more in taxes etc.). That's little bikkies anyway (unless you seriously, truly need that couple of hundred greenbacks or so) so if you have the mileage available and availability is there, go for it.

 

[hummel]

Re: US Dividend Miles Buy/Gift Miles 100% bonus - Cheap way for F/J *A Awards

I think I'll just give them a call later tonight and cancel the booking on hold and try for J.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Re: US Dividend Miles Buy/Gift Miles 100% bonus - Cheap way for F/J *A Awards

I was going to say if the rest of the itinerary is F anyway then is this really a question. Saw the rest of your post, but irrespective...



Is there any time you're going to answer "no"? Joking, but anyway...

I believe you meant to say that it's USD 100 worth without the Share Miles promo (alright, plus a little bit more in taxes etc.). That's little bikkies anyway (unless you seriously, truly need that couple of hundred greenbacks or so) so if you have the mileage available and availability is there, go for it.

difference in mileage is 10000 - which is $100 on the share miles promo. I thought the booking might have been return - therefore $50 each way.

as for a 'no' - the only time I'd not recommend a premium cabin would be Australian domestic. An additional $2600 return to Perth for a seat I can't sleep in doesn't make sense to me

 

[The Rok]

Is there a share promo in right now?

 

[bcworld]

Is there a share promo in right now?

No there isn't.

 

[get me outta here]

Which is the best site to look for SQ availability? I still have 100K points and wondering if I can look for a suite inside the 14 days that have been mentioned. I'll start looking up toward end Frb - March. If I don't have enough points I guess I'm back to looking at GUM, but I don't have much luck pulling BKK GUM HKG all together on the UA site after many many hours of searching.

Also, LM is mentioned, I forget which airline that is?

 

[hummel]

Which is the best site to look for SQ availability? I still have 100K points and wondering if I can look for a suite inside the 14 days that have been mentioned. I'll start looking up toward end Frb - March. If I don't have enough points I guess I'm back to looking at GUM, but I don't have much luck pulling BKK GUM HKG all together on the UA site after many many hours of searching.

Also, LM is mentioned, I forget which airline that is?

LM is Lifemiles, you'd need miles in a LifeMiles account.

Can't book suites with USDM.

Thought about going the long way with the Guam trip? Going through NGO perhaps?

 

[anat0l]

Which is the best site to look for SQ availability? I still have 100K points and wondering if I can look for a suite inside the 14 days that have been mentioned. I'll start looking up toward end Frb - March. If I don't have enough points I guess I'm back to looking at GUM, but I don't have much luck pulling BKK GUM HKG all together on the UA site after many many hours of searching.

Also, LM is mentioned, I forget which airline that is?

Good luck booking a SQ Suite with any programme except SQ KrisFlyer! Even within 14 days they are near impossible to book with US DM.

SQ availability is easy to find on exisiting tools within 14 days of departure.

LM is LifeMiles, programme of Avianca. They sometimes had SQ Suites or First redemptions available between Australia and Singapore (usually within 14 days but even then); no idea what it is like now, and of course you then book with AV LM rather than US DM.

Note that US DM bookings within 21 days of departure will incur the expedited ticketing fee (unless you are a Dividend Miles elite).

 

[hummel]

Good luck booking a SQ Suite with any programme except SQ KrisFlyer! Even within 14 days they are near impossible to book with US DM.

SQ availability is easy to find on exisiting tools within 14 days of departure.

LM is LifeMiles, programme of Avianca. They sometimes had SQ Suites or First redemptions available between Australia and Singapore (usually within 14 days but even then); no idea what it is like now, and of course you then book with AV LM rather than US DM.

Note that US DM bookings within 21 days of departure will incur the expedited ticketing fee (unless you are a Dividend Miles elite).

Fee is $75USD IIRC.

 

[get me outta here]

LM is Lifemiles, you'd need miles in a LifeMiles account.

Can't book suites with USDM.

Thought about going the long way with the Guam trip? Going through NGO perhaps?

I am just back from Japan, so maybe not there. I'd like to make a stop in HKG as well as GUM, but it seems to come unstuck w' connections.

Good luck booking a SQ Suite with any programme except SQ KrisFlyer! Even within 14 days they are near impossible to book with US DM.

SQ availability is easy to find on exisiting tools within 14 days of departure.

LM is LifeMiles, programme of Avianca. They sometimes had SQ Suites or First redemptions available between Australia and Singapore (usually within 14 days but even then); no idea what it is like now, and of course you then book with AV LM rather than US DM.

Note that US DM bookings within 21 days of departure will incur the expedited ticketing fee (unless you are a Dividend Miles elite).

OK, no LM for me.

Fee is $75USD IIRC.

Thanks, I was only thinking of 14 days out as I thought that's what I had to do to get an SQ suite. Otherwise, I'll try again for late in the year. If I just go SYD - SIN and HKG, I guess it'll be 110K miles which I don't have right now.

 

[cove]

You will need Kris Flyer miles to get into SQ Suites. I think SQ keep those 12 suites for their own customers.

 

[get me outta here]

I'm looking at awardtravelr for anything that goes F all the way to GUM but I all see on TG is J out of SYD, is this the case all the time - I've looked at March and Sept.

EDIT - Ok, I see that if I search SYD - BKK I get an F, I guess I have to break it down.

EDIT 2 - still TG is hard to get out of SYD. Am I missing something here as reading all this and the other successfuls, other have more luck - any hints plse?

 

[hummel]

I'm looking at awardtravelr for anything that goes F all the way to GUM but I all see on TG is J out of SYD, is this the case all the time - I've looked at March and Sept.

EDIT - Ok, I see that if I search SYD - BKK I get an F, I guess I have to break it down.

You may be able to do SYD-BKK-HKG in F but that's it. No F to Guam.

 

[get me outta here]

You may be able to do SYD-BKK-HKG in F but that's it. No F to Guam.

Ok thnaks, that'd be very nice, should I search SYD - HKG or break it down until I find the dates?