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- Bookable on Priceline. Tickets purchased from Priceline today are refundable until tomorrow at 11:29pm ET. Please see this post for directions on how to cancel these tickets.
- Also bookable on Orbitz or Expedia.
- Limited seats are available on each date.
- Use a card like Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card or Sapphire Reserve to earn 2 or 3 Chase points per dollar spent and get free travel/medical insurance, trip/luggage delay protection, and more!
- Read more about travel to Cape Town in the South Africa Master Thread on DDF.
Newark to Cape Town valid outbound dates:
January 26
February 16, 23, 26
March 1, 8, 11
Cape Town to Newark valid outbound dates:
February 6, 10, 13, 27
March 9, 12, 19, 26
Using points:
These fares are not on sale with airline miles, but 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.
Using Chase Points:
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 cost will be 46,142 points round-trip 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 on United.
- If you have an AMEX Business Gold Card you can get a 25% rebate of points used on United.
You can login to your account and redeem AMEX points for travel here.
This is bookable for 69,213 AMEX points. Plus you’ll get back a rebate of 24,224 points with the Business Platinum Card or 17,303 points with the Business Gold Card, dropping the total needed to as low as 44,989 points. That includes all taxes and you can still earn miles for flying!
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4 Comments On "United: Fly Nonstop From Newark To Cape Town For $692 Or 44.9K Hybrid Points Round-Trip!"
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Booked 3 tickets – just had heard this route was starting – thanks!
Enjoy!
No KSML option when booking online for this route–”Special Meals are not available for any of the flights in your itinerary.” Is that b/c this is a new route?
Call to order.