US Dividend Miles - Post Your SUCCESSFUL oneworld bookings here

[ecst]

You might have got hammered on the fuel surcharges, but you got lucky with the trip pricing. For stopovers in a higher zone, USDM usually charged the higher fare... so it would have been 120K per passenger with a Europe stop. So you 'saved' 30K points... which is not much, but helps off-set the fuel fines a little

Pretty good routing and redemption!

Yeah, thanks I know. However in one of my HUACA sessions the agent did mention that she wanted to price it as 120K, on the non-written pretext that I was spending more time in Europe than USA. I just replied that it would not have passed the MPM rule for the return journey via USA... "I'll think about it, thanks... goodbye", and ... hello next agent

I'm starting to get greedy again... I noted the recent updates mentioning that AA may be a bit lenient about date/time changes to US issued awards, and was thinking of upgrading the HKG-CDG segment to first if available later (BA has 8 seats still in F). Would be interesting if allowed as I have some points leftover but the 45K might be better used on a future EY redemption. (on the other hand, be thankful that I scraped thru to ticketing and leave it as it is).

My MEL-PER is in mid-Sept, and strangely seatmaps have come through on the new A330 layout. I'm not keeping too high hopes that there aren't any last minute swaps, but would be awesome if that stays

 

[Foreigner]

Very well done !!!

I've checked about visa for Qatar. Looks like it's VOA for 55.00 local currency which works out to just under aud20.

 

[Jaymez]

Given the previous thread (http://www.australianfrequentflyer....-miles/us-dividend-miles-post-your-33057.html) is for bookings in Star Alliance, I was wondering if it would be a good idea to archive that thread and start a new sticky on 31st March where we post our successful bookings, but now that US Airways is in oneworld. Please post your redemptions here!

US DM oneworld award chart: US Airways | Airline tickets, vacations & business flights

Link didn't appear to work. But good idea. I'm having trouble getting fights out of Perth on Business to US and Europe using AAdvantage points.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Link didn't appear to work. But good idea. I'm having trouble getting fights out of Perth on Business to US and Europe using AAdvantage points.

the links in that post date back to 2014 - now that US Airways is merged into AA the information no longer applies (in terms of redemption tables and routings).

With AA there are stricter rules in place.

 

[Foreigner]

Got one done today:

SYD-NRT JL
NRT-DOH QR
DOH-MUC QR
MUC-DUS AB destination
DUS-MUC AB
MUC-DOH QR overnight
DOH-KUL QR stop
KUL-HKG CX
HKG-SYD CX

Just saw QR will operate A350 DOH-MUC from Oct.

http://airlineroute.net/2015/05/20/qr-muc-oct15/

 

[CJEMNMAC]

Well done! And good on you for being persistent. Keen to know what you think of JL's 787 J on the Tokyo-San Diego route.

Beta4Me just got back from US and actually really liked the 787 and the J seat. OK, my preference is not the angled bed but when used in seat mode I thought it was 1 of the better ones. I really liked the comfort. SAN immigration is a joke but other than that, the trip was great.

Thanks again to all who helped me with the information and redemption.