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- Also bookable on Orbitz or Expedia or directly from the airline.
- Limited seats are available on each date.
- Always search one-way for 1 seat and then work the search up to the number of seats you need in order to book as many seats on sale as you can.
- Use a card like Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card, Ink Business Preferred® Credit Card, or Sapphire Reserve to earn 2-3 Chase points per dollar spent and get free trip cancellation/interruption insurance, travel accident insurance, luggage insurance, trip and luggage delay protection, and more!
- Flights can be changed or redeposited into travel funds for anyone to use for free.
Read more on DDF in the LA Master Thread or the South Florida Master Thread.
American and JetBlue have excellent $398 fares between Miami and Los Angeles in flagship business/MINT business class.
JetBlue’s MINT offers single seats in row 2 and 4 which are closed in suites with doors:
The double seats in rows 1, 3, and 5 have more legroom than the suites:
JetBlue: Miami to Los Angeles $398 dates:
September 27 through 30
October 1, 2, 4 through 13, 16, 18, 19, 21, 23, 25 through 28, 30, 31
November 2, 3, 5, 6, 11, 12, 14
JetBlue: Los Angeles to Miami $398 dates:
September 28 through 30
October 1 through 6, 8 through 12, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 23, 25, 26, 28, 30, 31
November 2, 3, 5, 15
American: Miami to Los Angeles $398 dates:
September 27 through 30
October Entire month
November 1 through 17
American: Los Angeles to Miami $398 dates:
September 27 through 30
October Entire month
November 1 through 17
It’s worth noting that you can save more if you have an AMEX Membership Rewards card like:
- AMEX Blue Business Plus
- AMEX Platinum Business
- AMEX Gold Business Card
- American Express® Gold Card
- The Platinum Card® from American Express
- AMEX Green Consumer Card
- AMEX Everyday Preferred Consumer Card
- AMEX Everyday Consumer Card
With those cards you can book via AMEXTravel.com and drop the price of American’s $398 fare to just $375 or 37,536 AMEX points. That’s just 24,398 points after rebate if you have a Business Platinum card or 28,017 points after rebate if you have a Business Gold card.
Using Chase Points:
You can pay for the ticket with “hybrid points” such as AMEX or Chase points with a card that allows your points to be used at an increased value for airfare in addition to be able to transfer points into airline miles.
If you have a Chase Sapphire Reserve® card you can redeem points for 1.5 cents each towards travel. If you have a Chase Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card® Card or Ink Business Preferred® Credit Card you can redeem points for 1.25 cents each towards travel.
You can login to your account and redeem Chase points for travel here. The round-trip cost will be 26,560 points with a Sapphire Reserve. That rate include all taxes and you will still earn flight miles as well!
Using AMEX points:
- If you have an AMEX Business Platinum Card you can get a 35% rebate of points used.
You can login to your account and redeem AMEX points for travel here.
This is bookable for 37,536 points with AMEX with insider fares. Plus you’ll get back a 35% rebate with the Business Platinum Card or a 25% rebate with the Business Gold Card, dropping the total needed to as low as 24,398 points. That includes all taxes and you can still earn miles for flying!
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HT: Davidthebest, via TPG
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