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Flights for interviews
- Thread starter Moka11
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Due to the amount of PMs, perhaps it would be more beneficial for everyone if people would just post the date/preferable time/and route instead of PMing, and I will respond with a price accordingly. (I will still respond to PMs though)
Example:
Route: NYC-LAX
Date/Time: 08/17 afternoon - 08/18 evening
Example:
Route: NYC-LAX
Date/Time: 08/17 afternoon - 08/18 evening
This sounds SO sketch.
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You know what JAWSSS, when the son of the deposed king of Nigeria emails you directly, asking for help, you help! His father ran the freaking country! Ok?
Not sketchy at all. I'm a mileage broker and work out award tickets. Usually there's no benefit in doing so unless your flying business (which can be arranged). However if the flight is expensive then award flights become worth it. Most predents aren't familiar with award tickets which is why its not discussed around here.
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Your not worth the no money I'd get for your ransom.
If this wold be fraud you'd be fully covered by paypal. No ones forcing you to book. This is SDN so I wouldn't expect you to be as familiar with awards as someone on Flyertalk, but its no fraud. It's just usually not worth it to pay for miles to book an economy ticket.
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why don't you explain to us how it works? doing so might make some of us more accepting of your (treatment) plan.
you pickin up what i'm puttin down?
you pickin up what i'm puttin down?
Ok fair enough. It gets complicated but I'll try to explain it simply. Miles are earned by people flying and spending on certain credit cards. Most people that have an account of 100k points find it more valuable to sell those accounts then to use them for flights, simply because the amount of money that can be made from one account many times is more than the amount of economy tickets that can be issued from that account.
In numbers lets say it costs $1800 for 100k account, and it takes 25k points for a roundtrip ticket NYC-LAX. So you can get 4 roundtrip tickets for that account. For $1,800 you can purchase a lot more than 4 roundtrip tickets with cash, so in this scenario points are not worth it.
Whereas a ticket from YYZ-NYC can run easily over $300 roundtrip, but can be booked for 9,000 points which have a value of about $200.
Award tickets are subject to their own availability. But when available they can prove to be a real bargain over regular fares.
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Really? When I booked my flights to CA for interviews (and not even NYC to LAX, but rather EWR-Newark to Ontario, which should be cheaper) it was $500 roundtrip... 4x tickets = $2,000.
Maybe share with us where you would go about purchasing NYC-LAX tickets for < $450 round-trip would also help a lot of SDNers on here as well.
Flights many times can be found for about 300 round-trip coast-to-coast. But if that's not an option then I would book an awards flights from the points I have.
Usually. But not if the fares are higher than the value of the points. Which in your previous post they were.
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flight prices changes depend on when you book, thats why in the original post he said if your ticket are expensive you should talk to him. Well personally if it only saves under 100-200$, I rather book it myself haha
Your not worth the no money I'd get for your ransom.
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