So, if you buy 50,000 miles it will cost you $525. If you then go and transfer those miles to someone, they will have 60,000 miles (because of the 20% bonus). Those 60,000 miles, then, will cost you a total of $550. That means you are either getting 2 first class flights grand hotel minneapolis on Alaska for $275 each roundtrip, or 3 coach flights for $183 each roundtrip. Just a thought.
A: Perhaps. But the main reason this works is because the devaluation of the Icelandic Krona has cut the value of their currency relative to the dollar in half. And it s not THAT crazy Avios only charges 25,000 points for a coach roundtrip from the West Coast to Hawaii.
A: I don t know. Some people grand hotel minneapolis who have called have been told they need to wait 10 days before booking because they are a new account holder. That sounds like nonsense, and because I m guessing they have 2 people working grand hotel minneapolis in their call center, calling them back likely hawaii cruises and vacations won t help.
A piece of advice I ve never shared here (but now that I think of it, I should have) is to sign up for all of the frequent flyer programs out there. They re free. Just get yourself a number. I have FF accounts with all sorts of random airlines precisely for this reason who knows why you might need it down the road? It s free, and my kids get a kick out of the mail some of these airlines send (Kingfisher luggage tags)?
hawaii cruises and vacations A: Availability is pretty good to Hawaii from San Jose and Portland, especially. Check on Alaska Airlines website before calling grand hotel minneapolis (and waiting on hold with) Icelandair. When I called yesterday grand hotel minneapolis hawaii cruises and vacations grand hotel minneapolis it appeared grand hotel minneapolis hawaii cruises and vacations that availability matched what was available on Alaska grand hotel minneapolis Airlines site, but others are hearing differently. I fear you may be traveling down a rabbit grand hotel minneapolis hole if you ask Icelandair to search for availability. hawaii grand hotel minneapolis cruises and vacations UPDATE: Fares book into W class for coach and A class for First. Expertflyer has a free 5-day trial that can help you with this.
A: I m not 100% sure. However, as this post from Million Mile Secrets notes American Airlines will make you book two separate awards for any flight that involves a connection longer than 4 hours. Given that most East Coast to Hawaii flights hawaii cruises and vacations have 8 hour (or overnight) grand hotel minneapolis hawaii cruises and vacations connections, I think that is what is causing this problem hawaii grand hotel minneapolis cruises and vacations (inasmuch as having to pay $600 for a first class ticket to Hawaii constitutes a problem grand hotel minneapolis .)
- The people I ve spoken with in their call center were wonderful, but I m guessing they re not used to this kind of call volume (at least not since the $61 fare to Reykjavik from years back). Please be nice to them.
- This deal has brought hawaii cruises and vacations lots of new people hawaii cruises and vacations to Online Travel Review. Welcome! If you care: I ve been writing this thing for almost 9 years. I don t think business class is as great as most other bloggers seem to think it is (see here ). I m not a trip report guy, so if you d like 32 photos of someone s soda on their flight, you ll have to visit elsewhere. I think it s amazing grand hotel minneapolis that by opening a credit card you can go nearly anywhere grand hotel minneapolis in the world you want for free. That s insanely awesome. hawaii cruises and vacations I have a chart-making program that I like so I ve created some charts I think are useful that you can find in the right hand column grand hotel minneapolis (ie, differences between Business Credit Cards; how to get to Hawaii using miles; a chart of how many miles it takes to go anywhere on all US airlines). And this little piece about flying with my then-3-year-olds is probably my favorite hawaii cruises and vacations thing I ve written here. Well, that one and this one about fathers .
In any case, welcome. Hope you stick around for a while. You can email me anytime at jared (at) onlinetravelreview.com. grand hotel minneapolis Oh, and if you want any help figuring out the whole credit card thing, I ve worked with lots of people grand hotel minneapolis who have used my free credit card planning service . It s free, and we ll get you enough miles for that trip you ve dreamed about.
hawaii cruises and vacations UPDATE: Someone who said they were from Icelandair (I have no reason not to believe grand hotel minneapolis them, especially since the IP address they posted from was in Iceland) posted this mini-FAQ in the comments of the main post. I thought grand hotel minneapolis I d post here, but with the caveat that when I called them yesterday they had availability from Portland (PDX) to Honolulu.
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@Jared When I search Alaskan from my home base, ATL, I see saver space to HNL but they are three leg flights with an overnight layover and the transcon flight hawaii cruises grand hotel minneapolis and vacations in coach. I fly coach most of the time anyway so I can stomach the 4-5 hour segment hawaii cruises and vacations in coach and enjoy the overwater in first. However do you know if it is even possible to book a redemption on a mixed class routing, and at what level it will cost?
Here is a very important hawaii grand hotel minneapolis cruises and vacations part of this puzzle: Alaska availability that Icelandair can book you on. For coach, search for a flight that prices out at 40k roundtrip to Hawaii on Alaska's site. For first class search for a flight that prices out at 75k roundtrip to Hawaii hawaii cruises and vacations on Alaska's site.
Success! Telling them to look for A class did the trick! We got First Class SFO-PVR-SFO for 30k + $51 taxes/fees per person! Sweet deal! Thanks so much for your blog post. Now, to the next mileage purchase and ticket. :-)
Okay, just spoke with an obvious sounding tired and overwhelmed agent, BUT nice and VERY helpful agent who found availability from the west coast. When I checked Alaska Airline s website, it DOES show Supersaver seats. grand hotel minneapolis So what I am thinking, and piecing together with everything, and maybe it s not working 100%, but Supersaver flights, I guess what is called W fares (this was for first class), I m a newbie, DIRECT stops will price out at 30,000 miles. grand hotel minneapolis I didn t ask her the mileage, but assume it was understood from all the calls today what I was looking for.
The first time I called Icelandair I waited on hold about 20 minutes only to be told I needed to wait for 10 days before I could book award travel. Then I got a note from Jared that Iceland retracted the 10 day rule so I called back after I researched saver availability grand hotel minneapolis on Alaska. Again, I waited for about 20 minutes. When I finally got through I gave the very nice and very patient rep the flight itinerary that I found (BOS-KOA) and was told that there was absolutely no availability hawaii cruises and vacations and she has been unsuccessful at booking people to Hawaii on Alaska all day. Defeated, grand hotel minneapolis I hung up and plotted my next move.
I had just about given up but decided that I would try once more but this time just book the last leg (OAK-KOA) and worry about the positioning flight grand hotel minneapolis later (BOS to SFO/OAK is relatively easy and cheap). I called Iceland again and spoke to the same rep as before and after a little wrestling and a lot of waiting she was able to piece together 2 roundtrips, OAK-KOA in 1st. The incredible agent at Iceland was just as excited as I was that she was able to book it.
@Adam Whew, I really don t know. I ve been emailing with the head of the Saga program from Icelandair, and she s been delightful she thanked grand hotel minneapolis me for all the publicity. So I have no indication that anything hawaii cruises and vacations will change, but I really just don t know.
I d encourage grand hotel minneapolis the blogger to please, please maintain hawaii cruises and vacations your niche in this community as the blogger who sticks to posting original content, hawaii cruises grand hotel minneapolis and vacations research and ideas, and refrains as much as possible from regurgitating the same CC-driven posts we re seeing on 95% of the other blogs.
Jared, Thanks so much for this quality insight. Even without the 20% bonus, this is a great deal I wish you d told us about this months ago! :grin: I have a question for your Saga contact what s the fee for making changes to the dates of an award ticket? Any other charges?
I know I want to go to Mexico and Hawaii in the next 12 months, but I m not sure of the dates. I would like to book a speculative award ticket, but don t want to get stuck with a $200 change fee or an increase in the # of miles needed. hawaii cruises and vacations Thoughts?
@SC Parent: Be careful! hawaii cruises and vacations It s not full flexibility since you ll need to find supersaver availability when you want to change dates. My guess is that Mexico might not be too much of a problem, but Hawaii could be.
Jared Just got off the phone with the call center. I tried to book DCA to SJD or DCA to HNL and was told that it was 15,000 per segment, so a roundtrip for either of those would be 60,000 in first class.
I am looking on expertflyer and alaska airlines hawaii cruises and vacations website and the seats are showing up different on both sites. Sometimes the one says there is seats and the other says there are none. Also sometime alaska says there are choice seats and expertflyers says they are saver seats. which site should I go by?
Okay, I was able to get through and book SFO-PVR-SFO so Mexico definitely hawaii cruises and vacations works. I am a little worried though, as I got my confirmation number email and all, but the miles haven t been removed from my account yet. Also if I go to AlaskaAir.com and put in my confirmation number (got it in the email), it shows t
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