Wow, I know that’s a fairly common occurrence on the JetBlue A320’s doing winter transcons. i think it’s pretty rare for a 737.
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On a 757 that is about to go from SAN to LAX in 29 minutes for fueling before flying to IAD. Apparently there’s some kind of pipeline issue so all of the planes in/out of SAN are making refueling stops.
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There’s a bunch of long as shit flights to/from AKL cos we’re a million miles from anywhere. From memory, AKL-DXB with EK, AKL-LGA with NZ, AKL-scummy DOH with scummy QR are all up there. Hell, even AKL-LAX/SFO/YVR are all the thick end of 14 hours. Unless you’re coming from Australia, you’re spending at least 10 hours in the air to get to NZ, unless you’re leaving from HNL!
@MG82 may be able to confirm whether QF have restarted PER-LHR which is a beast, both distance and logistics-wise.
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Recent list there. Pretty wild that the gap between 2 and 3 is basically equivalent to 3 and 10. Did SYD-DFW in the A380 back when it was the fifth-longest.
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Never, ever book flights except with the airline directly.
Ever.
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I’ve flown the LAX-SIN Singapore Airlines flight. Mindblowingly long.
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What’s the reasoning behind that statement? I usually go direct, but have booked with google a few times in the past.
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Something goes wrong,like a cancellation,you gotta deal with the third party, not the airline.
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Gotcha. Makes sense.
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Expedia for example. Hopeless.
Like dealing with the tax people.
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With all this google flights talk I’m suprised no one has mentioned matrix.itasoftware. I started using that about 10 years ago but recently got nerfed a bit because google sucks.
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I’ve never used it but it’s talked about quite a bit on r/awardtravel. My understanding is/was that it is more powerful but also more manual than Google Flights.
Best for putting together non-standard Itineraries I guess?
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I’ll co-sign this for hotels. I implore you to never, ever, ever book thru booking, Priceline, Expedia, etc. for a variety of reasons.
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Cosign. Especially Booking. I’d shoot those bitches into the sun after my Queen City 4-Way debacle if I could.
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Booking thru Amex travel is awesome they always take the customers side and you don’t have to wait on hold with the airline
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Did IAH-SYD a few years ago, what a beast of a flight that is. Slept probably 6-7 hours (god bless the lay flat seat) and didn’t even shave off that much time
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What about booking through AMEX/Chase/et al?
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Agree 100% - would never recommend booking via a third party.
That said - the Google flights functionality of being able to search 5 origin airports going to 5 destination airports filtered by airline of preference, time of day, number of stops, etc, etc is undefeated and superior to any carriers site IMHO. Or if you want to get wild you can search to a state, country, or “Western Europe”. It’s a game changer.
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I have friends who got stranded in South Africa once because their AmEx travel booking didn’t fully ticket with Lufthansa. They even had seats selected. Got to airport and couldn’t check-in. Peak season. Every flight to Europe/North America nearly sold out. I think they ended up booking a cash fare and AmEx eventually reimbursed them, but they spent at least another very stressful 24 hours in Cape Town.
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