My best laid plans for the past 4 1/2 years went to pot. I had planned to use my platinum credit card for Asiana airlines to get cheap tickets. They had a special that if you bought a business class ticket, you got one free. I figured we would use that or all the miles I racked up on my US Airways account. Yeah, not so much.
Last year, apparently, my Asiana card changed from offering a free club pass and the before mentioned business class bogo's to giving you $100 yearly rebate on airline tickets. Hm, not quite as good of a deal huh.
US Airways figured out pretty quick that I can't use my miles to fly anywhere.
So we were stuck with using cash. And lots of it.
My mother in law offered up her and my father in law's delta points, but there were not enough for even one of our tickets, however, delta had a special on purchasing points. You could get 50% more free. So I was able to cobble together enough points for 2 tickets and then purchased 2. The kicker is that while I was jumping around trying to figure out which, how, what and doing complicated math using imaginary numbers (and imaginary money) that the cost of the tickets jumped. Luckily I had asked a travel agent to quote tickets and although she got a slightly higher price then i did, hers were on hold while mine disappeared. So we had to buy hers.
Add to this the cost of the in-China flight from Beijing to Guangzhou. It was actually pretty cheap in comparison. Then I used the US Air miles to upgrade. I was not going to be denied using those miles somewhere on this trip.
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