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I gave a well-received presentation on Trick Awards at the Chicago Seminars in October.
The presentation dealt with free one ways, negative price one ways, open jaws, stopovers, avoiding fuel surcharges, and award chart SUPER sweet spots.
Enjoy!
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Question on the Delta portion. From US to Australia would probably fit into the Southwest Pacific, which would be 80k one way or 160k round trip, right? Not 150k as shown in the slides.
Scott, Enjoyed the slides!
Would you please do a post explaining the ‘fifth freedom’….?
Thanks!
Here’s a great post on the topic –> http://travelcodex.com/2012/12/taking-advantage-of-fifth-freedom-flights/
[…] I will be speaking at the Seminars. The topic is to be determined, but you can bet it will have to do with redeeming miles. Here are the slides from my two presentations last year on The Southwest Companion Pass and Trick Awards. […]