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Jared of Online Travel Review has been doing yoeman s work on the amazing deal where you can buy Icelandair miles and fly Alaska Airlines first class to anywhere they fly in the US and Canada (including Hawaii and Alaska) for $350 per person or less .
A stopover is considered anything more than 4 hours. So if your connection in, say, Seattle is 5 hours then that is a stopover. If you overnight in Seattle both directions that isn t allowed because it s considered two stopovers.
So one connection (or stopover) greater than 4 hours is ok, and won t increase the cost of your award ticket. Two connections greater than 4 hours is not permitted without paying additional miles for a second award ticket.
This remains arguably the travel deal of the year so far. And it is not an error or a glitch, it s a favorable award chart using Icelandair miles on Alaska Airlines, a generous and instant mileage purchase program made even more valuable by the strength of the US dollar relative jacksonville beach hotels to the Icelandic Krona, and a short-term bonus on purchased (and transferred) miles which makes it even better .
@Gene why? It s about the best deal out there and it isn t a mistake. Icelandair is well aware of it, folks have been communicating with the program s management on it already. Cat is totally out of the bag. Completely public deal.
A few questions Are you allowed to put an award reservation on hold for a certain amount of time before ticketing it? Iceland allows you to change their Business class award tickets for free, does this also apply to Alaska First Class tickets? Can you ticket a one-way itinerary (paying the roundtrip cost) and later pay the change fee (if applicable) to make it a roundtrip?
jacksonville beach hotels Agree. Jared is in contact, emailing directly, with the head of their Saga FF program. jacksonville beach hotels She said she was grateful for the publicity. They are getting a huge revenue boost with the purchase of miles, a ton of publicity, and a lot of direct traffic to their website. The only issue is that their phone agents just might lose it, so hopefully management is doing something to help them out!
@Chaim from the Midwest there s usually availability. From the West Coast for sure. But from say DC and New York and Philly you often won t find any first class award space. You may have to fly cross country in coach ( W ) or buy a ticket to a gateway city like Chicago or Minneapolis.
Tried to sign up for an account Thursday night. Received an error message. Emailed them Friday with my info and received an auto-reply. This morning my account was set up. I highly recommend emailing them at icc@icelandair.is if you get the technical error to get the ball rolling on your enrollment.
I was in the same boat with no account. I signed up on Friday, but didn t get the account number until Monday. They are swamped over there. I signed up with 3 different browsers, 4 family members, called and emailed, but to no avail. It just showed up Monday jacksonville beach hotels AM bright and early and now I am looking for award availabity!(not much left for holidays out of SEA), but I am hoping to find something good!
Relative newbie here slightly frightened by Mr. Peters comment. I was planning on purchasing coach tickets from SEA- HNL and KOA- SEA for next May anyway, using the Alaska Air companion ticket. That in itself is a great deal. This is more intriguing First Class! Trying to wait on my wife s Sapphire card, but maybe I shouldn t!!??
The bigger question. I can find the 2 NS flights jacksonville beach hotels I want looking up on the Alaska site. They want 65k Alaska miles for this flight purchased directly, but that s in coach! Does this have any bearing on the Saga Club miles required?
I was pretty excited about this deal but did not rush into it. After proper planning pulled the trigger, bought and transferred points jacksonville beach hotels to get the max benefit and also made sure 4 First class seats were available on all the flights before completing the purchase. However, jacksonville beach hotels when I received the e-ticket today I noticed that I had been charged 20250 KR per ticket which comes out to $170 per ticket. jacksonville beach hotels I was under the impression that Iceland air's taxes and fees were pretty nominal. Alaska air website only shows $10 in taxes and fees. What kind of taxes are others see on their ticket. I can also see a breakup of fees in the ticket and it shows 2020 US, 9950US and 8280XT. The first 2 values do match up with taxes shown on ITA website but XT does not. Looking to compare to others before calling Iceland Air.
If you are going to Mexico, those taxes sound about right. That is about how much I paid. Going to Hawaii it was less, about $68. Part of the taxes is a $40 fuel surcharge. Part of it is the Mexico tax. I thought the taxes were a lot as well, but am not complaining because jacksonville beach hotels the value I am receiving is so high.
I am flying to Alaska and not Mexico. I also posted on online travel review jacksonville beach hotels site as well and there are some good comments there that leads me to believe there is indeed a mistake that they are fixing on their own but if not reversed jacksonville beach hotels i will definitely call and let everybody jacksonville beach hotels know the outcome
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