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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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

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.

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Anonymous wrote:If the parents wanted to sit in first class so badly, why didn't they purchase first class to begin with?

Because they didn't want to pay for it. They figured they could whine and guilt their way into first class.

It's the typical Boomer mentality. They want the most expensive option, but want someone else to pay for it.

Anonymous wrote:This has to be a troll. Of course grandparents should be in first class, unless the kids have special needs or a really large / tall.

Anonymous wrote:If the parents wanted to sit in first class so badly, why didn't they purchase first class to begin with?

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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

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Anonymous wrote:Your wealthy husbands is asking your parents for $3,000 each? There is something so distasteful about this.

Between family members. It is not some business negotiation.

Sorry for you all. Values seem to have gotten lost along the way.

What makes you think he is wealthy? We are not, but my husband has high status on a different airline and millions of miles for his JOB. It doesn't make us rich in anyway. We get to travel the world, but it means I don't see him for 50% of the year.

Don't be a jerk.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:You know that your husband is United GS but don’t know that the flight doesn’t have first?
99% sure I am correct on that.

Calling troll on this one.

NP. They’re loving the pages of people going of on this.

I called it out on page 3 of this. OP was like oopsie! Definitely a troll.

My husband and I fly monthly internationally and we often use first and business interchangeably. Even though, I rarely fly first (always business). Some people just say it as an all encompassing statement for premium seating.

And some airlines have different first and business cabins, and other airlines have changed what they call different cabins, so it's all a bit confusing to me (I don't fly often) and I use business and interchangeably too. Not saying OP isn't a troll but I don't think that's a smoking gun.

Anonymous wrote:Your wealthy husbands is asking your parents for $3,000 each? There is something so distasteful about this.

Between family members. It is not some business negotiation.

Sorry for you all. Values seem to have gotten lost along the way.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You know that your husband is United GS but don’t know that the flight doesn’t have first?
99% sure I am correct on that.

Calling troll on this one.

NP. They’re loving the pages of people going of on this.

I called it out on page 3 of this. OP was like oopsie! Definitely a troll.

My husband and I fly monthly internationally and we often use first and business interchangeably. Even though, I rarely fly first (always business). Some people just say it as an all encompassing statement for premium seating.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s economy, not cargo. The grandparents will survive. If they truly *needed* business class, they would have paid for it. They’re freeloaders. And I bet they are not 85.

Right? It's not that the OP is dining first class on the titanic and sending her parents to steerage. And come ON people, it's what - a 6 hour flight?

9 hours in the air to Athens. 10 on the return. Remember you have to fly all the way across Europe- it's quite a bit further than anywhere in western Europe.

So you people really think coach is that horrible? It’s not high comfort, but it isn’t torture FFS. Suck it up and save $4500 per person.