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

[MEL_Traveller]

It would be OneWorld for sure...no doubt about that.

let's hope they keep the mileage promos going! We can then change the name of this thread to 'cheap way for oneworld F/J awards'

 

[bcworld]

let's hope they keep the mileage promos going! We can then change the name of this thread to 'cheap way for oneworld F/J awards'

I could live with that...as long as there's no YQ!

 

[bcworld]

Hi Guys,
Is it my imagination or has TG Business dried up for next year completely out of Perth?
I have looked at March for PER-BKK-IST return or PER-BKK-CAI-IST in business and cant get out of Perth at all??
Checked Aeroplan, ANA and United

Every day I randomly check UA is offering TG business class on PER-BKK! Are you checking individual segments?

 

[shane2603]

Hi BCWorld,
Just checked on UA for most of March next year and cant find any availability at all for 4 pax business on TG

 

[bcworld]

Hi BCWorld,
Just checked on UA for most of March next year and cant find any availability at all for 4 pax business on TG

Your problem is probably then just TG being slack at releasing inventory...they are well known for that and they don't tend to stick to the same 350 or 330 days as other airlines...I'm sure it will be along shortly!

 

[arraitch]

Hi BCWorld,
Just checked on UA for most of March next year and cant find any availability at all for 4 pax business on TG

4 pax! Have you tried comparable searches for 2 pax instead?

 

[Flashback]

Hi BCWorld,
Just checked on UA for most of March next year and cant find any availability at all for 4 pax business on TG

Your problem is probably then just TG being slack at releasing inventory...they are well known for that and they don't tend to stick to the same 350 or 330 days as other airlines...I'm sure it will be along shortly!

It's because you're searching for 4 seats at once. Try reduce to 2-3 and see what you get. I often find you can redeem 2 seats, wait a day or so then more seats open up on the same flights. Be prepared to be flexible though for that many seats.

let's hope they keep the mileage promos going! We can then change the name of this thread to 'cheap way for oneworld F/J awards'

Ha! Say goodbye to longhaul redemptions in J/F with good availability. You know how hard it is for J/F longhaul with QF. Same availability..... pretty much.

 

[bcworld]

4 pax! Have you tried comparable searches for 2 pax instead?

Oh yeah...I didn't pick up on the 4 seats! 2+2 will probably do it though. Well on TG at least, maybe not so with TK onwards to IST.

Ha! Say goodbye to longhaul redemptions in J/F with good availability. You know how hard it is for J/F longhaul with QF. Same availability..... pretty much.

I'd rather redeem on CX anyway, and their availability tends to be far better...but yeah, it would be much trickier without TG.

 

[deejo77]

they take half a month to issue it? even funkier......but thanks

 

[Stephen65]

Hi BCWorld,
Just checked on UA for most of March next year and cant find any availability at all for 4 pax business on TG

I have spent many many hours searching TG availability and I suspect you are NEVER going to find 4 J seats available at once on a TG flight.

What you have to do is search for two, book those seats and then sit back and wait for TG to release more seats. This is how I got the four of us F seats to Europe on TG.

At worst you might have to split your party and fly on different aircraft.

 

[Flashback]

I have spent many many hours searching TG availability and I suspect you are NEVER going to find 4 J seats available at once on a TG flight.

What you have to do is search for two, book those seats and then sit back and wait for TG to release more seats. This is how I got the four of us F seats to Europe on TG.

At worst you might have to split your party and fly on different aircraft.

Exactly, that's how I did it for a trip that was just completed yesterday. Booked my parents 2 seats in J to LHR, then the next day did the other 2 people

 

[kamchatsky]

I still have 240K US miles to burn and at the moment I don't have much opportunity to burn them. My only worry is that if they merge with AA and moved to OW I think it would be much harder to redeem awards. I don't want to redeem it 300+ days in advance. I prefer availability of TG/OZ etc to Europe ....

 

[Foreigner]

I still have 240K US miles to burn and at the moment I don't have much opportunity to burn them. My only worry is that if they merge with AA and moved to OW I think it would be much harder to redeem awards. I don't want to redeem it 300+ days in advance. I prefer availability of TG/OZ etc to Europe ....

There is the threat/risk but it's long way off, as suggested in this article:

http://www.cnbc.com/id/47117081

 

[bcworld]

FYI TG fans A380 is now officially loaded for Tokyo and Frankfurt flights.

FRA as expected from 15th December on TG920/1...prior to now there was no availability showing but it's now showing as wide open in C & F on United so hopefully no SQ style bigging up of themselves!

 

[Flashback]

Further to that, LH has announced they're going to be phasing out F in favour of adding whY+

 

[casanovawa]

So what does that mean for their fancy, smanchy F Terminal???

 

[Flashback]

So what does that mean for their fancy, smanchy F Terminal???

Turns out will just be some routes, not all (doing a QF of sorts): Konkurrenz durch Billigflieger - Lufthansa kündigt harten Sparkurs an - Wirtschaft - sueddeutsche.de

 

[anat0l]

Turns out will just be some routes, not all (doing a QF of sorts): Konkurrenz durch Billigflieger - Lufthansa kündigt harten Sparkurs an - Wirtschaft - sueddeutsche.de

Considering that LH operates a huge number of routes that sport F-capable aircraft (both "shorter" longhaul and "ultra" longhaul), it will be interesting to see just how many routes will get the F cut.

Given that the volumes are huge, the competition is fierce and certainly F is not completely dead yet, this is far from a "QF of sorts" move.

This is going to have quite an impact on the Miles & More loyalty, what with HON soon to be tightened as the rules only allow the accumulation of HON Circle miles on J and F fares only. I would very much anticipate that LH are going to make F even more rare to redeem on other *A FFPs (although good luck on them trying to stop US/UA/AC members from trying to long sell or NN seats).

 

[Flashback]

Considering that LH operates a huge number of routes that sport F-capable aircraft (both "shorter" longhaul and "ultra" longhaul), it will be interesting to see just how many routes will get the F cut.

Given that the volumes are huge, the competition is fierce and certainly F is not completely dead yet, this is far from a "QF of sorts" move.

This is going to have quite an impact on the Miles & More loyalty, what with HON soon to be tightened as the rules only allow the accumulation of HON Circle miles on J and F fares only. I would very much anticipate that LH are going to make F even more rare to redeem on other *A FFPs (although good luck on them trying to stop US/UA/AC members from trying to long sell or NN seats).

Those moves sound very SQ & PPS-like!

 

[bcworld]

FYI TG fans A380 is now officially loaded for Tokyo and Frankfurt flights.

FRA as expected from 15th December on TG920/1...prior to now there was no availability showing but it's now showing as wide open in C & F on United so hopefully no SQ style bigging up of themselves!

Paris CDG also now loaded from mid Feb for A380.

HKG is first cab off the rank from 28 OCT.