Yesterday I literally had to pull out a sheet of paper and map out a plan of attack for a vacation. I am taking my Mom to Hawaii for a belated 70th birthday but we’re coming from two different places. Heading home from two different places. But wanted to meet up on the coast and fly over. I have tons of miles at American and tons of points at Chase so I needed to find out the best way to book the flights either using miles, points, upgrades or cards. I essentially had to book a one way to California, then a few flights for my Mom, then match those flights but have an additional flight that takes me home. All while trying to get business or first class for decent price or an upgrade. Throw in the fact I needed travel insurance and one of my cards offers free insurance on anything purchased with the card and I have a whole notebook full of flight numbers, carriers, and point/card choices. Amazingly it came together and some great deals on some flights and points used for upgrades, some flights, and rental car.
I can see why there are entire sites built for optimizing points and deals because it takes a while to put together the best deal. I don’t feel like I fly that much compared to a few of my friends but I did go to Kenya, The Netherlands, Hawaii, Mt. Baker, Las Vegas, California, and Berlin recently so I built up a few more miles than I realized. Travis taught me how to transfer miles and get the most out of them. I can also book flights through my card and I get 1.5 miles for every mile so I save a good bit on plane tickets. Add in the credit card miles and an ordinary guy like myself can get a lot of places for not a lot of money. But therein lies the problem
Getting business class upgrades is pretty much impossible now because so many people have credit card and flight miles. The days of the business person that spent a ton on flights being the only person that gets upgrades is over. Everyone is Platinum or VIP and the 3 spots left in business are being sought after by 1100 people. If you try and buy tickets with your points you get the shittiest flights. Lots of layovers and bad times. Really depends on how much time I have to get to the destination.
If I were to give some pointers it would be to just call the airline if you have question. 50% of the time you get an agent that is bad and really doesn’t care to help. But the other half you get someone that really does a good job and hooks you up. I just wish I could get direct numbers to those that do a great job so I would only call them. There’s a business model. Direct number call centers and the people that do a good job will be obvious because they will log the most repeat callers. The bad can be weeded out
Quote of the Day:
“People say there’s delays on flights. Delays, really? New York to California in five hours, that used to take 30 years, a bunch of people used to die on the way there, have a baby, you would end up with a whole different group of people by the time you got there.
“Now you watch a movie and shit and you’re home.” — Louis C.K.
Domain of the Day: Zt.org and Zh.org Two LL.org coming up for auction. Somebody let some cash money expire
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