re: Anyone familiar with the EVA Infinity Mileage program

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I think the cash prices he was listing was for all 3 people.

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Correct, those cash prices were for all three people. The only leg that we feel business is a priority is the return leg though so open to Economy going there if it offers better value

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It becomes about 1.6cpp for PE (meh) and business at 3.7 which is good.

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Since we've pretty much come to grips what Business on EVA both ways might be a bit out of reach we may book EVA Business for the return trip and since we're open to Economy as an option for the outbound flight wait a bit and consider one way options on other airlines that have a better conversion (but maybe a longer route) for the outbound.

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Cap 1 to EVA is generally a terrible transfer. It's like wasting Chase URs on Marriott instead of Hyatt. But if you're comfortable with it and that particular route is what you want, by all means. What dates are you looking at? My offer still stands.

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I agree on the transfer. We're now looking at May 20 or 21 - June 2 (wife and daughter think those two weeks work better) and Air Canada does have flights but when I try to price the route using points on the Air Canada website, all it shows me is an EVA flight with only Economy available at 10 points higher than what EVA would cost (50k pts for an econ seat)

They do show one flight available for the return in Business class but it's double the travel time and almost double the pts for what EVA has


At least this is how I am interpreting it but Teddy is right, I am definitely first timing a trip like this on points. I've done smaller ones before but have alays gotten 1:1 value on the transfer and the routes were similar so it math/value was easier for me to consider


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Are you actually from LAX?

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Yes, the flight there will be from Lax. I am taking the daughter to Disneyland for a few days before we head over.

I checked SFO but nothing is available using KrisFlyer (that I could find).

Coming home we have more flexibility but I am also not very interested in swapping a 20 hour travel experience for a 40 hour travel experience with multiple layovers solely for a better point conversion.

Not saying you're approach is wrong but the wife's work schedule is a pretty hard cut-off on how much time she can take at one point and it's a hard cutoff at 2 weeks.

Thanks will check out the article and yeah, definitely searching for routes from LAX to our final destination (CEBU).