Would you split up [flights] when travelling overseas?[due to reward availability]

[cove]

We have always tended to travel together on long haul flights.
Often there is one business or first class ticket available on successive days but not two on the one flight on points redemptions.
Would you travel on separate days if it would save you 200,000 points and it is only 24 hours apart?
If the answer is yes split up would you have the same partner head off first or would you switch for the return?

 

[TraceyK90]

I would have no problem with that, someone else can listen to his snoring! It would depend on any work/personal commitments.

 

[cove]

I use a Resmed sleep machine on overnight flights so I don't snore now with the machine on. I have 2 8 hour batteries if the plane power supply fails to boot up on those very long international runs.

 

[deejo77]

Happy to split up - depending on the person I was travelling with - especially travelling with my mother, however it would depend on the locations travelling to who would go first - departing Aus I would go first because if Mum got lost she could ask, coming back to Aus I would get her on the plane first because once she is here where they speak "english" she should be fine.

 

[DaveB]

Have never done separate days and would find it a real pain, though might enable me to get a round of golf in whilst waiting.
Once did 3 and one to HKG in J between QF and CX with the four together on BA for the Europe leg. Four came back in F when BA had the two Sydney flights 30 minutes or so apart.
To overcome the problem, now always burn points with Citi Rewards enabling the four of us to travel together. Burn rate of 116,000 Citi points per $1,000 ticket price I feel is fair value and luckily always have at least three or so years of redemptions up my sleeve.
Two J tickets of current trip bought on EY each required a total spend of roughly $460,000 on the card to go with the the two reward seats that each cost roughly $180,000 card spend plus $1,200 or so cash.

 

[Limewood]

Often I in J she in Y, reason is Mrs Lime likes to spend the difference at end point. She does well shopping in Hong Kong.

 

[UP4014]

There are reasons why I wouldn't, say flying into a seedy or dangerous place such as during a coup which I have done, but certainly an english speaking western country I wouldn't have an issue.

Matt

 

[jukebox333]

I would not split up.

If anything were to happen to the aircraft - major or minor - I would want to be there for Mrs Jukebox. Ditto on the ground dealing with immigration and customs people...

The points are a renewing resource - my family isn't.

YMMV.

 

[Princess Fiona]

Happy to split up to get the best seats and fares. There's enough time for us to catch up at the destination

 

[Katie]

I would, but Mr Katie would not. He can't get into the FLounge in SYD without me.

 

[harvyk]

Well I totally misread the thread title...

Whilst both Mrs Harvyk and myself have no problems dealing with flights customs etc by ourselves, and I certainly have no qualms about traveling by myself, I can't see it going down well at all with the Mrs if we where to take different flights from the same departure point to the same destination without a damn good reason.

The closest we've come to this was a few years ago I was working in SYD for a couple of weeks and instead of me going back to CBR over the weekend, Mrs Harvyk traveled to SYD and we spent a weekend there on the companies dime. But that's a little bit different IMHO.

 

[vertisol]

I'm not sure I could sell this to Mrs Vertisol, though a previous comment about a night without snoring could get her over the line...

 

[tuapekastar]

In principle, no problem at all. I hardly talk to travelling companions during a flight anyway, preferring to sleep (well, attempt to sleep, usually without much success) or watch movies. In practice, dependent on factors such as who the travel companion is, destinations etc.

 

[whereiskym]

Yes no problem happy to travel separately if need be we actually have a trip coming up in October and the other half is heading off a day early to have that full day of shopping . So when I arrive we can do the touristy things. Lol

 

[n7of9]

having no significant other, i travel either alone or with friends...i MUCH prefer the transit alone and have more than once come up with valid-sounding reasons as to why i need to leave earlier or later than them

"hey BFF, want to go to San Fran? Yes? Great, see you there, bye"

 

[RB]

I would not split up.

If anything were to happen to the aircraft - major or minor - I would want to be there for Mrs Jukebox. Ditto on the ground dealing with immigration and customs people...

The points are a renewing resource - my family isn't.

YMMV.

Without getting too personal, what immigration & customs worries do you have?

 

[JohnK]

I could not trust her....

 

[jukebox333]

Without getting too personal, what immigration & customs worries do you have?

LOL None that I know of.... but I guess that is the point. It's Dick Cheyney's "the things you don't know you don't know".

And I have found that many a time, you put a person into a uniform at an airport, and give them a sembelance of authority, and they turn into officious pri%ks.

It's not about when things go smoothly - anyone can manage that. It's when it all goes cough up, on a frontier where English is not the native language, that I would like to think I can be there to deal with it.

As I said, YMMV...

 

[lovetravellingoz]

Have split up to fly in J as I have often wanted 4/5 J tickets to Europe on SQ.

It used to be the case on SQ that you could not get more than 2.
Have also split by having some go SQ and some on Thai.

 

[joyvee]

Well, once we started off with intentions to fly together but at Immigration I saw him being escorted to a side office. Not a good look. Investigations proved that he had tried to travel with an expired passport and had left current one at home!
Too late to retrieve it. TG very helpful and put him on next day's flight, he had to take my CC to liberate card from car park to get home. I continued on and then went out to BKK airport to collect him the following evening. Now he says 23 hours to Europe is too much so I travel solo. Interesting but not as nice. JoyV