Honk! Honk!

Family of three just completed Knoxville-Atlanta-Frankfurt outbound, Munich-Paris-Detroit-Knoxville return. Used Delta Skymiles. Flights were on Delta (outbound) and Air France & Northwest (return). Booked all reservations last summer (11 months in advance).

Just got back two days ago!
Los Angeles - Washington D.C. - Rome
Zurich - Washington D.C. - Los Angeles
Used 50K United FF miles and got Economy Plus seats. Purchased ticket on January.
Honk! Honk!

Beep beep! My husband and I used AA miles for our tickets to Italy/France in August. Can't wait!

(We go DFW-Zurich-Rome and return direct Paris-DFW. 60K miles each plus some fees I've already forgotten about. We booked last September!)

In Sept flying from Newark to Frankfurt on
Continental and out of Frankfurt to
Atlanta on Delta-business class tickets
both flights. What a treat!

2 first class tickets to Vienna from LAX using my United Plus awards in August. We fly Lufthansa to Munich, change planes and fly to Vienna. Return is on Austria Air (two class flight) to London, change to United. The only fees we paid are airport taxes.

Whoops, forgot to add that I had to "buy" these tickets the minute they became avaiaible, last October, and I am not traveling until this August. I had to stay on the phone with United airlines until 3:00 a.m. when the seats were released and I could book my flights. It was still hard to get the seats since there are not many first class seats for mileage point users.

We just got back - four 50K tix on Air Canada, PHL-YYZ-LHR

AAFF miles from San Diego to Milan this October. Used 40,000 because I left after Oct.14th. Otherwise, it was 60,000. Last two times to London used AAFF for first class but not enough miles to do that again. Ugh, but I am always so excited I will get over that pain promptly.

karens, I saw your post on the Air Canada forum on FlyerTalk. Nicely done.

Anselm

Round trip tickets on United Airlines, Washington Dulles to Paris, mid-August, for a family of 4! 50,000 miles per ticket. Booked in October.

Just booked a trip in coach with Delta using 50,000 skymiles from NY to Paris via Copenhagen on the outbound and direct from Paris to NY on the return. I am a woman traveling solo leaving on August 31 and returning on September 9. I decided to spend 2 nights in Copenhagen before flying on to Paris. Pickings are slim but I was flexible. Not bad for last minute travel given the crazy fares that are out there right now and Copenhagen was one of the cites I've always wanted to visit.

I just booked 5 tickets to Rome for next May, 2 business and 3 coach on American/Iberia/Brussels Air.

Chgo-Madrid-Rome and then Venice-Brussels-Chgo.

I am so excited to be able to get these seats. We are pumped and now starting to look into hotels.

ttt

Hello all, My ticket is not until Oct. also. Delta FF miles. Booked in Jan. Atlanta to Paris, return Florence, Paris, Newark/Atl. I only decided to add Tuscany and extended for another week a couple of months ago. The Delta agent worked hard to get me back from Florence. I go Florence to CDG Air France late evening..will book CDG hotel for cheap on Hotwire or Priceline and leave Paris to Newark early morning with a decent layover in Newark to Atl on Continental. This will save doing the entire long trip in one day and paying for transport to CDG from Paris. I was impressed at how hard she worked to get me the change I wanted to make. Very creative using partners. I used 50,000 miles and about $75.00. I had no problem at all with the original booking in Jan. for a direct flight ATl-Paris on Delta. It was originally Oct. 15 to 25, extended to Oct. 31.

My next project is getting a FF mile trip to Nairobi from Atl. next yr with hopefully a nice layover in Paris or London. I will begin 330 days out.

One of my better deals is to Maui for this Christmas. I had 28,000 miles on United, bought miles for $250 reaching 35,000; then scored a flight to visit my son for a week before Christmas. I go out on Dec. 17 and return Dec 25 at 11:59 pm. Christmas will be officially over 1 minute after I leave. I can deal with that. I have found Maui FF deals much harder ro book than Europe, especially Holidays. It will be our first Christmas together since he moved 6 yrs. ago. Hooray!! Honk! Honk!

Happy travels.

gg

Used 80,000 miles to go to Prague from Boston in Business Class on United.

I have never been in business class when traveling outside of the States. It was wonderful!!! Great food and I loved that my chair turned into a bed. I got a REAL pillow and blanket too!

AA miles for trip to France. We decided in June to go to Provence this summer. Our dates were flexible, so I was patient, looked each day and found 2 tickets at 90,000 miles per person for business class. We fly San Diego to London, then I got cheap tickets to Nice and out of Montpellier. We leave on Thursday!!!

How is anyone doing with using miles for next year to Europe?

With all the trouble I had this year, I'm afraid FF availability to Europe might increasingly be a thing of the past.

Just booked a pair Continental Newark to Amsterdam for April 9, returning on Delta Gatwick to JFK May 10, using 200,000 Delta FF miles to fly business/first. In between it will be a brief river cruise through tulip country from Amsterdam to Antwerp, a few days discovering Antwerp, then Eurostar from Brussels to London for three weeks. Fortunately, we were able to be quite flexible with our dates. Our first few choices were unavailable.

I am flying on business to London, but my daughter is flying with me on AA using my miles and my sister is meeting us flying on Virgin using my USAir miles. Honk! Honk! Virgin had no blackout dates although USAir did. This is the best way to dispose of USAir!

Next April - departing on a Weds night Air France LAX-MAD, then returning on a Thursday CDG-LAX, 50K AF points. I had to shuffle the dates around a little bit, since I just now booked. Wasn't sure if I should wait to see if a weekend day came available...but decided to just go ahead and do it. I don't want to lose out! and am assuming that the other dates are gone (from the sounds of it, probably one of you guys got 'em :)