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Re:Qantas wants to fly from Sydney to New York or London non... by ghaff on Saturday August 26, 2017 @10:59PM (#15108850)
International upgrades still tend to require fairly substantial co-pays. Nothing like paying the whole thing in cash but still in the multi-hundreds of dollars.
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Re:Qantas wants to fly from Sydney to New York or London non... by sersi on Saturday August 26, 2017 @11:11PM (#15108894)
That depends, I recently booked a "round the world" trip in first class with miles (total distance traveled 19500 miles and 5 different cities visited so not really round the world) and in total I only paid 400 usd in taxes and fees and 205,000 miles.

If you can get the miles from churning, I wouldn't say that the co-pay is particularly onerous, it's much less than it would have cost to buy all the tickets in economy.

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Re:Qantas wants to fly from Sydney to New York or London non... by ghaff on Sunday August 27, 2017 @11:31AM (#15111162)
That's pretty good. United is around $500 one-way for trans-oceanic upgrades to business plus around 25K miles. A pretty decent bargain over just buying a business class ticket but not a trivial cost either. I do it now and then but I'm selective.
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Re:Qantas wants to fly from Sydney to New York or London non... by solutionyogi on Sunday August 27, 2017 @11:14AM (#15111101)
That's impressive. I want to now more, is there any way to reach out to you?
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Re:Qantas wants to fly from Sydney to New York or London non... by chx on Sunday August 27, 2017 @02:39PM (#15111997)
Try http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/
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