Basically this is just a trick that avoids fuel surcharges of about $230. Start at Kayak.com, enter JFK as your starting city and FCO as your destination. Price will come up at about $526 for multiple airlines/1-stop in each direction. What you’re looking for, and in most cases this will come right up, is a combination of United (JFK-IAD) and a United flight sold as an Air One (Lufthansa partner) codeshare (IAD-FCO). When it comes up this way and you click through it takes you to Cheaptickets which gives you a message, “Great news! We found an even lower fare for this itinerary. Act fast to take advantage of this fare before it expires. (Message 102b)” The price falls $230 — down to $296. This trick also seems to work for San Francisco-Milan (price comes…
Monthly Archives
Monthly Archives for October 2008.
Virgin America Finally Offers Redemption
Virgin America’s eleVAte program has been rather vexxing, you earn points but since the airline’s inception you couldn’t do anything with them. In fact, you didn’t even know what you would eventually be able to do with them (ok, flights were a good guess!) or at what price. My understanding is that the delay here was related to IT problems. I guess they’ve finally started getting those worked out, as they’ve just added redemption to their website. It looks like you need to be logged into an account to see the details, but helpfully there is a Flyertalk thread laying them out. (Helpfully for me because I have yet to fly Virgin America and have no eleVAte account.) What I’m seeing so far doesn’t really excite me. There are no confirmed upgrades to first class…
Delta: 100% Bonus on Miles Transferred from One Account to Another
Delta is offering double miles on mileage transfers between Skymiles accounts from October 1 through October 31. They seem to be worried about folks creating fake new accounts in order to transfer miles back and forth to themselves, so they’ve added a little clause into the rules that Skymiles accounts must have been open 60 days and have earned some miles in the past in order to be eligible for the bonus. Of course adding such things into the rules just points out the obvious, that if you’re looking to purchase miles inexpensively this is a great way. For example, Transferring 30,000 miles will cost $330, and yield 60,000 miles. Transfer 30,000 miles back to your friend for $330 and they receive 60,000 miles. On net you’ve created 60,000 bonus miles for $660 or 1.1…
British Airways Concorde Room Champagne Bar: No Cristal
British Airways on the whole does a nice job across the Atlantic. Certainly their product bests anything offered by US carriers in premium classes, and is superior to most European flag carriers as well — Lufthansa offers better food and ground service at Frankfurt, and most would probably prefer Swiss, but BA has in my view the best seats and entertainment. (Here I’m excluding fifth freedom routes operated by airlines such as Singapore.) But while their product is reasonably good, this review of British Airways first class really overdoes it with hype as exemplified by: Things started to brighten up a little when we finally arrived at Terminal 5 and headed straight for BA’s Concorde Lounge. I planted myself directly at the fabulous Champagne Bar and immediately ordered a glass of Louis Roederer Crystal and…
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