Reply to Grandparents insist on taking my kids’ first class seats

Forum Index » Travel Discussion

Reply to "Grandparents insist on taking my kids’ first class seats"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. DH has done some investigating and has an idea. Curious to people’s thoughts. My parents could cancel their current tickets and keep the $3K future flight credit. Then, DH can buy them two new round-trip business class tickets using FF miles. It will cost 744,000 FF miles for both at current prices. For reference, we spent about 320,000 for the four we already have, so they are way more expensive now, but still better than paying cash. Then, all 6 of us will be in Polaris business class both ways and all 6 of us can access the IAD Polaris Lounge before departure. In exchange, DH thinks we should ask my parents for $3K to help offset the FF costs since they’re still walking away with $3K in future flight credits that only my parents can use for themselves in the future.

I think my parents would go for this. They will have spent $6K total on airfare, $3K of which they can use in the future and the $3K they committed to spending on flights to ATH. The other alternative is to upgrade my parents current tix to business class using $8K cash (PlusPoints and miles upgrades are waitlist only and DH says they’ll never clear). The cash upgrade seems like a bad value vs. the FF miles option.[/quote]

Okay now I am curious how you got 4 roundtrips to Europe in business for 320k. Even under the old.award chart (which United blew up last month), it was 60k each way per person, so would be 480k.[/quote]

Yes, we need a spin off thread about this! When booking 4 tickets to Paris earlier  this spring, 60k would maybe cover 1 ticket in Economy and I am not even sure it was both ways. I don’t have as high status on United,  though. We ended up booking another airline [/quote]

PP who posted the question here.  There are a few possibilities.  I think the most likely is that they bought 2 tickets as straight business class awards- I could see getting 2 tickets for say 60k one way as a saver, and then 100k the other way, for 160k/person, so 320k total for 2 people.  And then bought economy tickets for the other 2 people and upgraded them using Plus Points. A GS member would have minimum 320 Plus Points per year, and you can upgrade on international flights from very low fare economy (usually S class economy fares are what the average joe booking well in advance would get) for 80 Plus Points per person, per direction. That would use the 320 Plus Points.

But there are other permutations of how you could do it.[/quote]

I'm so invested in this now, I'm going to look into it.  Probably flying on a Wednesday, but I think it must be higher as it's a direct flight.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics