Stopovers
In the midst of United's terrible devaluation, the value of American Airlines is more and more apparent. But less-obvious is a little known secret called AA's Explorer Award Chart.
I've written a TON about crazy United award routes and it seems fitting to start doing some AA routes on the first day of United's devaluation. The first place to start is this mysterious second "Explorer" award chart.
Read moreThis series has been featuring pre-devaluation prices, but I still wanted to get this one out before Feb 1 (the devaluation date).
So if you have some last minute booking in the works, could use use the same concepts later, or just find these tricks interesting... well, I'm glad I got it out. If it's too late for you to do something like this, I hope future content will continue to provide as much value.
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There are concepts in this post that are incredibly important. These posts explain key features on routing rules, stopovers, and award booking tricks.
By reading one of these posts, you may understand why your ticket wasn't booking or get a better idea for your next crazy booking.
Read moreThis is one of the most bang for the buck redemptions in terms of miles. You can cover a ton of ground for a mere 25k miles. Or 40k in Business Class. The idea is that a flight within the Oceania to Oceania region on the award chart is incredibly cheap despite how much ground needs to be covered.
Basically we flew from Guam to Rarotonga for 40,000 miles roundtrip in Business Class, however, there's really nothing direct from Guam to Rarotonga, and in fact you can't even really do it with 1 or even 2 connections. Thus we layed...
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