Flights Within North America Without an Airpass or RTW Fare

[Homer]

We’re heading to Canada for about five weeks in early July, firstly to visit a friend in Nova Scotia and check out some of the east coast before finishing up in the Canadian Rockies and Vancouver. It will be our first trip to Canada.

I’ve ruled out a DONE4 because, frankly, QF lost me a bit last year after I firstly flew VA J to Fiji and then EK F to Europe. I’m finding it difficult to go back to QF now for long-haul.

VA can take us from SYD-LAX, return, in J for around $4,800 booking into I class which, given the quality of the product, seems very good to me. The problem is the LAX-YHZ flight, the YHZ-YYC flight and the YVR-LAX flight, ie the Canadian segments, which work out to be quite expensive in J/F when purchased as individual tickets. If we flew into North America with Air Canada, or another Star Alliance carrier, or even QF, then we could buy a North American Airpass but it seems that we can’t do this by flying in with VA. Is there another way to get better value intra-North American flights?

 

[Travel Guru]

VA can take us from SYD-LAX, return, in J for around $4,800 booking into I class which, given the quality of the product, seems very good to me.

$4800 for the calibre of product VA offers seems brilliant to me...i'd fly them over QF anyday of the week.

Is that a centurion deal as I cant seem to see a fare that cheap on my grid? We recently stitched up an exclusive deal with AMEX to access Centurion fares but unfortunately they dont load onto our grid so we have to manually search for them.

TG

 

[Homer]

$4800 for the calibre of product VA offers seems brilliant to me...i'd fly them over QF anyday of the week.

Is that a centurion deal as I cant seem to see a fare that cheap on my grid? We recently stitched up an exclusive deal with AMEX to access Centurion fares but unfortunately they dont load onto our grid so we have to manually search for them.

TG

Apparently it’s not. The Centurion companion fare with VA is ~$6,800 but my TA said this deal, which is a 50-day advance purchase, is a retail price.

Nice work on the AMEX deal TG. Now...how’s about answering my question?

 

[Travel Guru]

Apparently it’s not. The Centurion companion fare with VA is ~$6,800 but my TA said this deal, which is a 50-day advance purchase, is a retail price.

Nice work on the AMEX deal TG. Now...how’s about answering my question?

It's still floating around in my head waiting for the right answer to come out...let me have a look at it and ill send you PM later tonight after I get back from Surf Lifesaving.

TG


PS. thanks for the congrats, was very happy, dont have to lose any clients business to centurion from now on.