if you are looking for a flight and willing to book by tomorrow night

i have some points i can't extend and are not great for what i'd prefer to use them for. they may make sense to redeem for you or you+1, for me to get you tickets, you pay me, and you essentially end up with some discounted and/or creative airfare. something domestic or something central america/carribean or something that hits up both. so as simple as ORD-LAX and back or as tricky as ORD-SJU (puerto rico)-PTY (panama)-SXM (saint martin)-ORD.

note these are points i'm using, so flight dates are subject to availability i can find, and the more tricky the harder to make happen. the second example above costs almost the same as the first but it hits 3 countries so it's trickier to translate from theory to working in reality. also with holidays availability is already rough, ie. a buddy asked me about just going to SJU 17-22, i had to go back to the 7th to even find an outbound flight. if interested let me know when/where you wanna go and how flexible the dates are.

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[Mike K]

Wanna find me pricing on that ORD to LAX and back? Christmas is probably blacked out right? I'd have to look on my points but I remember those dates being wacky.

I'm considering flying in for a Cubs playoff game though.

 

[DEEZUZ]

I need a flight to orlando on feb 8th

 

[sickmint79]

Wanna find me pricing on that ORD to LAX and back? Christmas is probably blacked out right? I'd have to look on my points but I remember those dates being wacky.

I'm considering flying in for a Cubs playoff game though.

what dates about and yah probably won't look too good points wise.

 

[sickmint79]

I need a flight to orlando on feb 8th

if that's a hard date, the flights i'm finding are not so great. they all stop in dulles, and you can go direct for a pretty good price already.

 

[sickmint79]

Wanna find me pricing on that ORD to LAX and back? Christmas is probably blacked out right? I'd have to look on my points but I remember those dates being wacky.

I'm considering flying in for a Cubs playoff game though.

LAX-ORD is not bad on 19th or 24th first glance. return totally sucks though. busy until jan 5.

 

[Mike K]

What kind of prices are you coming up with?

 

[Bruce Jibboo]

Wanna find me pricing on that ORD to LAX and back? Christmas is probably blacked out right? I'd have to look on my points but I remember those dates being wacky.

I'm considering flying in for a Cubs playoff game though.

drive that Tesla here and give us ludicrous rides

 

[Xfirez51]

Would this include international flights?

 

[OffshoreDrilling]

ORD to St marten sounds enticing. anything Jan/Feb/March?

 

[sickmint79]

Would this include international flights?

depends on which. i've found these are worthless to go to europe (currently they make it twice as expensive, it's idiotic) - they are lufthansa points. going south is better. maybe to asia. depending on the trip i may not have enough total points though for 2 people.

 

[sickmint79]

What kind of prices are you coming up with?

there are different award levels and i was simply not finding flights at the saver level on united's search. the fully priced awards are usually bad redemptions, and since i'm actually trying to use lufthansa miles for star alliance partner united flights, the only inventory they have access to are the saver seats.

 

[sickmint79]

ORD to St marten sounds enticing. anything Jan/Feb/March?

i'm finding flights but not nice ones. ie. they are 1 stops with late night layovers, fly to toronto, wait 12am-8am, fly to st marten. pry sucks for you, sucks worse taking a lady.

 

[PANDA]

ORD to St marten sounds enticing. anything Jan/Feb/March?

Ive always wanted togo and watch the airplanes land.

 

[OffshoreDrilling]

St Martin. and the thing you are most excited about is an airport? I've got a sandblast cabinet and can hose you down with sand. it's probably about the same experience

 

[OffshoreDrilling]

i'm finding flights but not nice ones. ie. they are 1 stops with late night layovers, fly to toronto, wait 12am-8am, fly to st marten. pry sucks for you, sucks worse taking a lady.

I'd be going solo anyways. ORD to Toronto, then St Martin is so ass backwards

 

[sickmint79]

I'd be going solo anyways. ORD to Toronto, then St Martin is so ass backwards

it's point stuff so unsurprising when routing is more odd, particularly when it's to somewhere like tiny island vs big major city. wouldn't be so terrible were it not for long layover.

 

[sickmint79]

so i have until i think 4pm tonight.

i booked a friend for a flight atlanta to ohare economy out and first class back. used only half the stuff i have expiring though.

 

[PANDA]

St Martin. and the thing you are most excited about is an airport? I've got a sandblast cabinet and can hose you down with sand. it's probably about the same experience

 

[jason05gt]

If you go, check out the Platinum Room.

 

[sickmint79]

ended up booking friends flights to ATL and ANC. my other miles won't be expiring until i think june so i will hold onto them for now. these appear to be ok for domestic travel, however i have found them to be virtually useless in practice doing anything else.