Some months ago there was a major mistake fare where you could fly first or business class direct cheap as long as your trip started in Yangon, Myanmar.
Sounds crazy to many, but frequent flyers from all over the world have been descending upon that country to start trips.
Now – crazy thing that it is – someone has pointed out on Milepoint that the fare is back.
It appears to you fly between Yangon (RGN) and cities in Eastern Canada for under $600. Here’s business class on ANA from Yangon to Tokyo and then continuing on in Swiss first class to Zurich and then JFK, with American (economy) up to Montreal.
One could of course just get off in New York, or without checked bags in Zurich if one preferred.
Getting the Yangon – Tokyo flight on ANA, operated just 3 days a week, is key to making this work.
I’ve managed to price this in business class on Travelocity using multi-city search but I haven’t been able to price it on a live, bookable site in first class yet. (The screen shot above is from the ITA Matrix.) So this is a work in progress, I play to play with the various country Expedia websites next.
Bear in mind that a visa is required for Myanmar.
There’s no data in that thread on MP. Did you perhaps the advantage of the fact that you’re an admin on the site to read the previously edited post and share details which had been redacted??
Great, now that you outed this on the blogosphere, Round 3 will certainly be shut down much sooner. Well done!!!
All hail the clicks!
@Seth – I do not have any ability to see redacted posts. That post, and the replies, clued me into what was going on and I started searching fares.
If you see your deal pull the trigger people.. If its gone in an hour or a week shouldn’t make a difference.. Book ur flights or don’t, this is a blog about travel deals folks, if you don’t like it, don’t click!
Just couldnt hold on to it for even 10 minutes.. could ya.
@Frank – for what it’s worth, writing about travel that starts in Myanmar is unlikely to drive ‘clicks’. 🙂
@Rab I worked on this for like 2 hours before posting it. It was posted on a public frequent flyer community, Milepoint. But that was just the clue that it was out there. I had to deduce everything for myself, that took quite a bit of time. Sounds like a whole bunch of other people were aware of this…. well, if you had shared it with me, under a request not to share further, then I wouldn’t have. I’ve never broken that sort of trust. But when I have to figure it out for myself, I may go ahead and post it.
Kinda makes the complaint crew wish y’all had sent me an email to let me know about this, no?
Any specifics dates for this year besides Feb/2013 ?
Gary, if you click through on travelocity it will book the exact flights you show in A class (F).
@Fabio Vilela – dates shouldn’t matter, through end of schedule I believe
@bangkokiscool – thanks!!
I see the dates/itinerary I want pricing out at $567, but I can’t seem to book on travelocity. Any tips?
@Paul what do you mean by can’t seem to book it?
Gary, apologies…I see the fare on the ITA matrix (exact same routing as your screenshot, but just different day) but can’t replicate on Travelocity using multi-city option
I can’t find the ANA flight earlier than Jan 28, any idea why? It’s supposed to be Mon/Wed/Sat.
I’m having trouble pulling this up on ITA. I’m typing in RGN and YUL but nothing like this comes up, all way higher priced…any pointers?
Are you searching each segment individually on Travelocity, or “marrying” any of them?
Thanks Gary for the post
This site shows NH 914 operating dates:
http://aviability.com/flight-number/flight-nh914-ana
Just booked on travelocity using multi-segment, with each segment spelled out, $734. Expedia shows the fare too but won’t book it if there’s no real inventory, and TL seems to be more accurate in that regard. No ticket #’s yet.
Same routing, made sure to leave RGN on MWF and clicked through on Travelocity, C on ANA to NRT, F NRT-ZRH-JFK, Y AA JFK-YUL.
Would love NRT-LHR NH F and ZRH-JFK or YUL LX F on same itinerary if any body is able to find it
Does it have to be via Europe? Any routings via West Coast?
Also available via FRA on NH or LH F connecting on SQ F to JFK
@AM: The routing rules are MPM-based and specify travel via the Atlantic.
Just booked as well for 734 but no ticket number as well, hope it’s good. Thanks for the heads up Gary.
On the issue of the visa — I was in Yangon in August and there was a visa-on-demand counter in the arrivals section. Don’t know if it’s operational or only offered to certain passport holders (I had my visa already from the consulate in NYC).
just booked the direct ZRH-YUL to shave 200.00 off the fare 566 a/i for what should be a boat load of *A miles….that is if it tickets.
@bangkokiscool – Click through what?
Any luck with Hipmunk?
Gary, don’t listen to the nay-sayers and the whiners. You are very kind (and brave!) to share such great gifts with us. Thsnks.
David Code
Seems Travelocity has pulled all NH avail.
398 if you want to try US envoy from ZRH
Thanks gary! Also a shout out to colpuck. Followed your lead to reduce the price by $200. Booked on Travelocity. Waiting to see if this tickets. We will be in Australia so just a little hop, skip and jump to get to Myanmar.
Not working for me. Is there a trick?
@howie us envoy to where? PHL or CLT?
What website will ticket this? I can’t even get it on ITA!! grr..
Just booked on travelocity, searching each segment individually in “multiple destinations”. I searched business class and it actually gave me results for First on the Swiss segments saying “business class is not available”. I think the trick is just picking the right dates–I couldn’t get it for Gary’s dates above but the following Monday worked. Meanwhile, the last leg only gave AC options, not AA, but I wouldn’t plan to take that part anyway. Same here though, no ticket number yet.
To clarify, I booked RGN-NRT-ZRH-JFK-YUL starting 7/3/2013, LX F on the 2 long hauls. On travelocity US, ticket is not yet issued, $597
Ticked on swiss, over under three days before they cancel
How long can the layovers in Zurich and/or NRT be?
@simon PHL
Just curious to see if anyone has gotten this to actually ticket? I booked but have yet to receive an email from travelocity. It doesn’t even show up under my trips, but yet I can pull it up if I use the trip look up function with the trip id.
Booked RGN-NRT-FRA-ZRH-YUL with NRT-FRA and ZRH-YUL in F. LH A380 from NRT-FRA. NH 777 was also an option but I couldn’t get it to book. No ticket #s yet.
Anyone know the cancellation policy for Travelocity? I couldn’t get my preferred dates to book so I booked another week then got my preferred dates to work on Expedia.
expedia.ca has RGN-YUL for CAD$298 on MH/RJ in J for all your oneworld folks
Finally kick through on tcity.ca, having a trip to China next march so this is quite a tricky catch. Finger crossed.
Got email from travelocity. And eticket numbers.
@Arcanum What did you do from FRA-ZRH? I can’t get it to price with that routing?
The PNR is trackable at swiss.com
@Arcanum I believe Travelocity will allow a cancel within 24 hours
Will this work on any Skyteam airlines?
just booked RGN-NRT-ZRH(21 hr layover)-YUL one-way on Travelocity
RGN-NRT on ANA Business Class
NRT-ZRH on SWISS First Class
ZRH-YUL on SWISS First Class
can’t wait to try this all out for $566.79 a.i !
1 Adult: $130.00
Taxes + Airline & Agency Fees: $436.79
Total: $566.79
THANKS GARY!