Airmiles Armchair Chatter

[ilovetotravel1977]

Typically the fees should equal the same as booking round trip. Your flight there will always be higher taxes and fees, and coming home should be cheaper (i.e., YHZ to MCO there $111, back $46) That's my experiences when I've done mock bookings.

 

[Donald - my hero]

A bit off topic, but has anyone else found that no regular flight rewards are available for the last week of Sept for roundtrip direct flight from Toronto to Orlando? I checked this morning & looks like I am out of luck using my air miles for my flights. Am I just too early & is it likely this will be possible over the next month or so? Didn't think snowbirds would have snapped up direct flights for late Sept. They are more of a late Oct (after Thanksgiving) crowd. I can book separate direct flights but not a roundtrip. With the separate flights, looks like I'd pay the fee & taxes x2 so not a great use of either my miles or cash upcharge. Thanks in advance for any info if you have found a work around for this.

You're not too early to book flights for September and i don't *think* they'll release more flights (but someone else might have thoughts on that)-- can you give me a few more details? I'm currently looking @ Sept 23 - 30th and while there are no flights left in the "value level" of 2800 miles I'm seeing an AC flight for 3098 miles. I'm not sure what's going on but at times i have found it frustrating to search for and then find flights!

 

[Donald - my hero]

Your Load and Go is better than mine! I've got spend $10, get 20 AM. That's it - no item specific offers either. This is the second week in a row, not sure what's up with that.

On the plus side, we managed to scrape up 201 airmiles at Safeway yesterday, spent $130.

Have you tried the AM equivalent of a hard-boot? When my offers get screwy i will go into my preferences and turn off the e-mail notifications, save it, sign out & then back in, toggle the notifications back on again. Who knows if this is what actually fixes it but the next week my offers are back on track again .... mileage may vary according to driving conditions

 

[samsteele]

can you give me a few more details?

Absolutely! Looking for direct flight Toronto departure Sept 19 with direct return from Orlando Oct.2. I just booked the FD promo in the middle of the night so a bit stuck on the dates.

 

[samsteele]

That's my experiences when I've done mock bookings.

I'm going to go through a full mock booking & see if this works for me. Thank you for the advice!

 

[tinkerone]

I have a question about the Canadian Ticket offer. I have seen that some have purchased these and wonder if someone can tell me how they work. I'm not actually going to use my Airmiles for it, I'm going to purchase it outright (saving my miles for flights next year). When I get it from Disney is it easy to attach to my profile? I want to be able to make FP's. Do I have to wait till I get to Disney to actually do this which would mean I miss the fastpass window.
Thanks for any help.

 

[samsteele]

Typically the fees should equal the same as booking round trip. Your flight there will always be higher taxes and fees, and coming home should be cheaper

That's what it worked out to. I did my 2 separate mock bookings with fees of $103 down to Orlando and $72 return to Toronto. So approx $175 in fees & taxes plus the air miles. Thank you for the tip! I'm going to take 24hrs to decide. I have another rewards program as a back up should this fall through overnight. Thanks, again. Much appreciated

 

[Donald - my hero]

Absolutely! Looking for direct flight Toronto departure Sept 19 with direct return from Orlando Oct.2. I just booked the FD promo in the middle of the night so a bit stuck on the dates.

Well that was considerably harder than it should be that's fursure!!!
1st i had no flights showing on your dates -- but some did appear if i changed to the 18th and 3rd (we have on occasion flown in late and tacked on a RO in a value) but holy smokes $$$
THEN once i realized i hadn't signed into my account all kinds of flights came up -- here's what i found and my suggestion!
If you book it as a RT flight you can do a Non-stop on Delta to Orlando no problem but there is no non-stop for your return date. Assuming one ever shows up the cost for this flight is 4322 AM + $141.05 taxes & fees

If you book separate One Way flights -- to Orlando -- on Air Canada for 1680 AM + $103.16 taxes and fees
back to Toronto -- on Air Canada again -- 1680 AM + $72.36 taxes and fees
Total for this is 3360 AM + $175.52 taxes & fees

So to me it looks like if you really want direct flights you need to go with the one-way option. Costs you less miles (962 --- if you use their mile-to-cash that works out to about $100/pp) but an extra $34.47

NOW to complicate the whole process -- I checked the Air Canada site and you can book the exact same flights for $392.01 total -- including all fees. -- using the AC site it is a Round trip ticket.
If you use the ratio of 95 AM =$10.00 those 2 one way tickets would cost you $529.20 using AM
I would safely say you might even be able to get the flights cheaper with a seat sale ..

Did i confuse you yet

 

[1926Moon]

Deleted because I misread and lots of other folks have already answered
Dis Board rookie move

 

[mort1331]

I think they have to be on separate transactions though. So if something is buy 3 and get 25 airmiles, you can't buy 6 to get 50. I've been burned doing that.

We've never had a problem at Metro, Sobeys or Foodland with doing multiple offers in one sale. Both our Metro and the Sobeys we go to have self-check tills that show the Airmiles as you go so that if something is missed, it's easy to get it fixed before even finishing the sale. The recent pickle offer also shows you can do multiple sales in one transaction, otherwise i think the cashier who had the experience of ringing up @mort1331 entire skid into however many sales of 2 jars each would have blown a gasket

Yup all one transaction. We would have been there for a few hours if not.
Unless it specifically says you should be able to do multiples no issues.
Check your receipt

 

[samsteele]

Well that was considerably harder than it should be that's fursure!!!

Thank you so much for your work! I've basically reached the same conclusion. Either book each flight separately & eat the extra miles + $175 fees for the security of knowing that I'm booked now OR wait for another month or two to see if even a small seat sale pops up with AC. I agree flights at these posted prices are not a great use of my miles. Thanks again for your assistance. We've got a great bunch of Cdn DIS'rs on this thread.

I'm punchy today after being up most of the night waiting for FD to drop so wonderful to receive good advice & the double check.

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

That's what it worked out to. I did my 2 separate mock bookings with fees of $103 down to Orlando and $72 return to Toronto. So approx $175 in fees & taxes plus the air miles. Thank you for the tip! I'm going to take 24hrs to decide. I have another rewards program as a back up should this fall through overnight. Thanks, again. Much appreciated

Excellent!

 

[kerreyn]

Have you tried the AM equivalent of a hard-boot? When my offers get screwy i will go into my preferences and turn off the e-mail notifications, save it, sign out & then back in, toggle the notifications back on again. Who knows if this is what actually fixes it but the next week my offers are back on track again .... mileage may vary according to driving conditions

Okay - just did what you suggested ^^. Fingers crossed next week it'll be back to 'normal'.
Thanks Jacqueline!

 

[kerreyn]

I have a question about the Canadian Ticket offer. I have seen that some have purchased these and wonder if someone can tell me how they work. I'm not actually going to use my Airmiles for it, I'm going to purchase it outright (saving my miles for flights next year). When I get it from Disney is it easy to attach to my profile? I want to be able to make FP's. Do I have to wait till I get to Disney to actually do this which would mean I miss the fastpass window.
Thanks for any help.

I think you should be able to attach it to your profile right away. Are you ordering online or by telephone? If you call to order it over the phone, I'd just ask the cast member when you're on the phone.

 

[hdrolfe]

So I booked a couple cruises and am hoping to use AM for the hotels the night before. Both leave from Port of Miami so I'll be flying into FLL as I can get direct flights. The December date is fine, prices are reasonable and I haven enough AM to stay at a decent place (on the shuttle company's list for pick up so it'll be easy to get to the port). My question is, I don't usually book hotels other than Disney Will the cost in AM for the March trip change? They are rather high, I get it's March break so I expect it to cost more but I'm just trying to get an idea here. If it's going to stay so high, I may just save on flights or something. Or perhaps I'll just use the AM for the March trip and pay out of pocket for a hotel in December since the prices are lower any way. I will never get enough to do all my flights and hotels. I really should stop planning trips.

 

[hdrolfe]

I have a question about the Canadian Ticket offer. I have seen that some have purchased these and wonder if someone can tell me how they work. I'm not actually going to use my Airmiles for it, I'm going to purchase it outright (saving my miles for flights next year). When I get it from Disney is it easy to attach to my profile? I want to be able to make FP's. Do I have to wait till I get to Disney to actually do this which would mean I miss the fastpass window.
Thanks for any help.

I bought mine through Disney and they appeared in my Disney experience right away. I haven't booked FP yet... two months to go for that But I assume it won't be an issue. I did not pay to have them shipped to me, just printed the email with the barcode to take when I get there. So I don't have the tickets in hand, but they are in MDE. Hope that makes sense.

 

[tinkerone]

I bought mine through Disney and they appeared in my Disney experience right away. I haven't booked FP yet... two months to go for that But I assume it won't be an issue. I did not pay to have them shipped to me, just printed the email with the barcode to take when I get there. So I don't have the tickets in hand, but they are in MDE. Hope that makes sense.

On line or did you phone to order?
Thanks for the info.

 

[ottawamom]

I bought mine online through Disney for my trip in two weeks. Like hdrolfe said I got the email and the tickets were all magically in my MDE waiting for me. I just attached names to each one. I was able to make FP at 60 days (no issues). When we go to the parks for the first time we will head to Guest Relations of a ticket window( whichever line is shorter) and redeem our voucher (email voucher).

 

[Pumpkin1172]

My question is, I don't usually book hotels other than Disney Will the cost in AM for the March trip change? They are rather high, I get it's March break so I expect it to cost more but I'm just trying to get an idea here. If it's going to stay so high, I may just save on flights or something.

I had used my AM to book hotels when we did our cruise in November. I found Miami to be more "expensive" in Am than Orlando...even the hotels in Disney Springs or close to Disney or Universal Studios. I found a hotel that was close to the airport...it cost us 15 dollars in a taxi to get there...then it offered a 10.00 fee to drive you to the port for what ever time you needed. It worked great. I used my AM for a stay in Orlando and Miami for that trip, and would not hesitate to do it again. I'm currently trying to save enough to do the same for a family trip again to Orlando next March.

 

[hdrolfe]

On line or did you phone to order?
Thanks for the info.

I did it online

I had used my AM to book hotels when we did our cruise in November. I found Miami to be more "expensive" in Am than Orlando...even the hotels in Disney Springs or close to Disney or Universal Studios. I found a hotel that was close to the airport...it cost us 15 dollars in a taxi to get there...then it offered a 10.00 fee to drive you to the port for what ever time you needed. It worked great. I used my AM for a stay in Orlando and Miami for that trip, and would not hesitate to do it again. I'm currently trying to save enough to do the same for a family trip again to Orlando next March.

Thanks for the info. I'll have to keep saving should have bought more pickles...