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.
Dead?
@Gene still pricing for me
Dates and website? I was getting some but I hesitated and now cant find!
I had to avoid LX-operated flights to get it to price to ticketing presumably.
Swiss may have become aware of this as their inventory dropped like a fly hit by a hard fly swatter
Check march. Just booked in march on travelocity. Waiting for ticket numbers.
Got it to price. Too bad I have no status with *A and don’t really want it.
@guwonder, my ticketed was issued by swiss, so they don’t even have the pleasure of billing someone else for this debacle.
was able to book RGN-NRT-ZRH-JFK-YUL leaving 5/29/2013 on Travelocity for $715. No email or ticket # yet.
How did they resolve it last time – flights stuck / canceled / compensation offer?
any way to work Auckland, NZ in this fare? anyone?
@KenY, it is pricing on MH/RJ if you are in OW but only in J.
Colpuck said,
@KenY, it is pricing on MH/RJ if you are in OW but only in J.
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What is the routing? Thanx!
Booked! Sadly, if this sticks, I will have to cancel my SQ F award (NOT A380). Oh well, I prefer LX F over SQ F anyways.
Booked, will see if they honour it 😀
RGN-NRT-ZRH-JFK-YYZ-YUL $734
Had a hard time even getting a reservation done, on travelocity was failing at the last step. Finally found some dates in June that stuck.
@Gene just got May on Travelocity following flight advice above
@Colpuck any tips on an OW itinerary? I’m trying to validate on RJ in J but haven’t found the magic flights yet.
Booked via FRA on LH 380 in F.
How do you get a return to work?
Just got ticket numbers from travelocity
I went to buy on Travelocity and there was a last minute price change to 24,000 USD 🙁
Got a confirmation from Travelocity, got an e-ticket number issued by SWISS and it pulls up fine on their website…
@Tom try alternate dates – probably an availability change. Still looks alive to me.
does it only work on travelocity?
@Chris – How long did the ticket numbers take? I’ve been waiting over 40 minutes with no email from travelocity?
@Chris, I know someone who got RGN-KUL-AMM-YUL to price out. That’s all I know. RGN-KUL on MH, KUL-AMM-YUL on RJ.
A poster of FT said you can book SQ F on the A380 ! HOW ???
Thanks for this one, got 2 tix for president’s day week w/ my son. Booked a UA SFO-ICN-BKK positioning flight, will use regional budget airlines from there.
What are the fare rules on this?
Got a OW to book end of April: RGN-HKG-LHR-ORD-YUL for 633.19 ticketed by CX on Travelocity. RGN-HKG is via KUL on MH and CX then CX to LHR and AA to ORD.
Got it for my pre Osh Kosh trip.. you sir.. are a godsend 😀
@SOLTATIO Mine probably took 45-60 min if I had to guess.
@Colpuck Thanks. I figured it out – I was overcomplicating it.
Booked with LH A380. Love it.
Mine still hasn’t ticketed on Travelocity? Can replicate it on Expedia for a few days later. Maybe I must pull the trigger on that and then cancel the travelocity one if they don’t come through?
Still trying to book this. Is this dead? trying dates in early April 2012. not working out so far.
Is this dead? trying dates in early April 2012. not working out so far.
First Class (A) inventory is going fast on the NRT-ZRH leg – now booking into business (C) at higher price $672.
Travelocity leads me through the whole process, to the final booking screen, and then says “one or more flights could not be confirmed”. Same thing with other dates.
I only get Thai or Korean offered on Travelocity for Sat, Mon departures (3/9 or 3/11). How do I get ANA offered?
Thanks Gary, I also booked with LH A380. Sweet.
You can get creative.. here is a hint.. think SQ First suite via LHR!
Just got Expedia to ticket it in 5 minutes. Still nothing from Travelocity. Guess I will cancel that within 24 hours.
Colpuck, thanks for the heads up! Too bad MH doesn’t earn MQMs on DL and RJ only gives 1x EQM and 0.25x bonus on AA. This just doesn’t work as a MR, and not sure if it’s worth it even if I wanted to do a AA Plat challenge. 🙁
Booked the RGN-NRT-ZRH-JFK-YUL (NH J-LX F-LX F-AC Y/J) prototype on lastminute.co.uk, 5.29.13 departure, GBP 456. Got a confirmation email within a few minutes. No E-tix number, but a booking code that works on Swiss.com. Thanks, Gary!
Finding RGN-KUL-FRA (on Malaysia J)-FRA-YUL (Srilankan codeshare of AC Y)for $258 for some Saturdays in Feb.
Thank you! I snapped first class all the way to yul.
Got it to price for $8-900 on KLM, but at 9500 miles on those legs, even with a Z class fare at 1.5x MQM and 2.5x total miles banked with elite bonus, it just doesn’t cut it…
I started the Milepoint thread, but I wanted to work out the bugs before I posted further. For people trying to book various itineraries, try routing through RGN-HAN- and on or RGN-NRT and on, via Europe and JFK. You can route yourself on Qantas A380 F, ANA A380 F, Thai A380 F, and lots of other options. I found availability on Swiss, Alitalia, Delta, BA, Thai, ANA, Finnair, Cathay and Singapore. And I think a few others I’m forgetting.
Myself, I went for a $333 itinerary that includes AF A380 in First from CDG-JFK. It’s a great option for Skyteam folks, RGN-HGN-CDG-JFK-YUL.
For the adventurous, it’s the same base fare of $115 to St. Johns, Newfoundland, and Halifax.
Oops, I meant HAN.
Dates for the $333?
Thank you wildway. Can you provide the routing you used to get AF A380F and Qantas A380F ? On whose stock are these tickets issued (what airline gets stuck with the bill?)
This only works from RGN? I have to find way to get to rgn from west coast? What would be the cheapest wAy to Rgn from lax?