SriLankan Airlines joined the oneworld alliance yesterday, May 1, 2014. I've flown SriLankan in the past and really enjoyed my flights with them. And for that matter, even though I've never actually been into SriLanka, I've flown through the airport a handful of times (it's easily the best airport in the world for discounted first…
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Considering the actual availability would you recommend putting mom/dad/friend in the business class seat and taking economy for yourself or flying two or three separate aircraft instead?
Looks like there is a $60 "Sri Lanka Overseas Sales Surcharge (EJ)" and $25 "Sri Lanka Embarkation Tax (Colombo) (LK)" when I looked at economy CMB-MLE and CMB-FRA tickets on ITA Matrix, regardless of carrier.
CMB-MLE on BA is $27.50 (Reward Flight Saver : You just pay the Avios fare + a flat fee. We pay the full taxes fees and charges) 🙂
Sounds like everyone who got aboard the Etihad mistake fare just got a bunch of ways to jump over to Columbo to board their F flight homeward to JFK or DFW. Congrats to all those who pulled that trigger last year
@ Dax -- That's totally a function of personal preference. In my case if I can't get everyone on the same flight in business class I would find a different way to get there. In general I'd rather be on the same flight than separate flights, though.
Although the availability is there when you search segment by segment - it is not available when you search a flight like MLE to BOM via CMB. If you search segments then it is there but I am not able to book the full journey. Any tips to solve this issue.
@Narayana
Avios anyway charges points by segment. You could just book 2 separate tickets and still end up paying exactly the same amount. Just take care of the dates and connection time.
If you want to book it as one ticket with AA miles, just call AA and feed them the dates and exact flights.
AA is also charging this $85 tax and it looks like it's only when you are departing from cmb. they are charging that on CX flights out of cmb as well.
Click through to the payment screen. British Airways IS collecting fuel surcharges of $152 one way from CMB to Europe and less from CMB to Asia.
@Lucky Hello! I have one question for you. I will have several flights on Delta next month. I am both the elite of Delta Airlines and Alaska Airlines. Delta airlines allow its elite to get economy comfort seats for free. Alaska miles value higher than Delta miles. Is it possible to take advantage of elite benefits (ex. economy comfort seats) of Delta and accrue miles on Alaska airlines at same time? If so,how to do that? Thank you!
@ Apadfaa -- Not really, unfortunately, as Delta won't allow you to remove your frequent flier number from the record once you've begun travel or taken advantage of any elite benefits.
seems like anyone could survive in coach from CMB to MLE for the 1:30 flight. With padding, it's probably less than that in reality...
@Lukcy
Thank you,one more question. Is it really hard to get upgraded when travelling with companions ib Delta? Should I split PNR to increase chance to get upgraded?
Thank you!
I was able to book a MLE-CMB-BOM flight on the phone because it is not bookable online although it should be without fees.
@Hitesh Also a flight like one I booked with AA miles is an issue because Sri Lanka is in Asia 2 and India and Maldives are in the Indian Sub Continent so it charges for 2 awards :).
Another interesting thing is that AirBerin now also charges fuel surcharge on revenue tickets, but thankfully for the time being. BA still doesn't charge it on redemptions.
where is the best place to search for sri lankan award space now.
BA does not show all award space, especially on flight combinations like FRA-CMB-BKK
@ Patrick -- Hmmm, BA is still the best place to search award space as far as I know.