A few hours ago I posted about the amazing first class fare which British Airways filed between Dubai and Austin.
Since I'm in the Maldives and was sleeping when the fare "broke," I was a bit late in sharing the deal, though the fare stayed around for a surprising amount of time. The fare is now finally dead, though in the meantime presumably dozens (probably hundreds?) of people managed to get in on the deal.
Personally I stretched out the routing on oneworld carriers as much as possible (meaning I didn't book Emirates, Etihad, Swiss, etc., tempting as it may have been), and booked the following:
That's 12,948 "butt-in-seat" miles. Here's the routing on a map:
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Via FlyerTalk and View from the Wing, there's an amazing first class fare filed between Dubai and Austin.
The fare is fully refundable and published by British Airways, and actually allows you to fly quite a few different airlines, including Etihad, Qatar Airways, etc.
If you're looking for a straightforward routing, you can do Dubai to London to Los Angeles to Austin for under $1,500 in paid first class:
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Late last year I wrote about how Emirates announced that they would introduce two cabin A380s in 2015.
While the A380 is already the highest capacity jet out there, Emirates will be taking capacity to new heights (no pun intended), as they'll be modifying the configurations of some of the new A380s they take delivery of.
Emirates has already taken delivery of roughly half of the 120 A380s they have on order, and they don't plan on reconfiguring any of their current A380s to remove first class.
Anyway, it looks like we finally have some more information regarding the two cabin A380s.
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