The Amsterdam Trick and MultiCity Trips?

I will probably take your advise and do it over the phone with Vs, I am doing two flights with Virgin America , I take it they can do that for me too?

I don't know about the Virgin America flights.

But Bretty's Expedia suggestion sounds better than mine, as it looks like they are giving even more miles for the booking (6 per £)!

I tried to do this but it didnt seem to be any cheaper, in fact I seem to remember it working out more expensive!!

Don't VS clobber you with a massive credit card fee?

I did use Expedia UK. Perhaps gfonk you just got unlucky. I was really pleased with the prices quoted, but I don't suppose it's always a reliable choice.

I think the credit card fee is a percentage, plus if you have the Amex you get miles on that. But credit card charges are becoming standard practice nowadays. Although my business is different and on a way smaller scale, I add on credit charges to clients using them, otherwise the transaction fees I get charged would reduce my profit margins. Of course an alternative is to price things to include the charges as standard rather than additional.

I did use Expedia UK. Perhaps gfonk you just got unlucky. I was really pleased with the prices quoted, but I don't suppose it's always a reliable choice.

you could be right
i will definitely try searching again next time

Question on the AMS trick. Would I be able to do the following
Positing Flight from London to Dublin - Hand Luggage/Minimal Luggage
Dublin to London - Same as above, ideally night before so can get back home
London to US/WI - Usual luggage (i.e. Lots!)
Don't fancy lugging 6 suitcases over to Dublin for the night!

I believe some people have done that.

You can also store luggage at LHR to collect.

Yes as Honey Lamb told me, you can store luggage at LHR
http://www.left-baggage.co.uk

John

I've been messing with this all bloody day and am getting pretty frustrated.

How can I do this starting in the US?

expedia.com won't allow multi-city trips and expedia.co.uk won't even calculate MCO-MAN-DUB.

Or I just SOL if I want to fly VS UC and save some shekels?

Dublin at least doesn't appear to work in reverse I am afraid, just got vastly different results doing MCO-DUB and DUB-MCO as separate directions.

I've been messing with this all bloody day and am getting pretty frustrated.

How can I do this starting in the US?

expedia.com won't allow multi-city trips and expedia.co.uk won't even calculate MCO-MAN-DUB.

Or I just SOL if I want to fly VS UC and save some shekels?

It may not work for ex-US fares in the same way as it does for ex-EU.

The European airline market is different from the US one with more carriers in Europe wanting business to start at their hubs than there are in the states.

I thought I would apply the same principle, fly from a non Virgin Airport TO a Virgin hub to start your flight.

Searching FLL-MAN which seems to route you via MIA and JFK gives similar Upper Class fares to doing DUB-MIA/MCO from our end.

The key principle seems to be that your journey ORIGINATES from an airport other than where the VS flight starts.

Of course if I have just genuinely stumbled on the reverse of the DUB trick, please try not to tell the entire US population!!

[honey lamb]

I've been messing with this all bloody day and am getting pretty frustrated.

How can I do this starting in the US?

expedia.com won't allow multi-city trips and expedia.co.uk won't even calculate MCO-MAN-DUB.

Or I just SOL if I want to fly VS UC and save some shekels?

I don't think it applies in reverse order. The principle of the ex-EU flights is that BA and VS are trying to attract passengers from their national carriers to the US (and some other ex-LHR destinations) by offering a significantly lower fare which includes carriage from an EU airport to LHR.