A good sale to Hong Kong. Delta is attacking United’s fares and this won’t last!
Update 3/31/2015 @ 4:48PM Eastern – price drop. Now $445. This usually means it will last much longer – maybe 1 or 2 more hours.
Update 4/1/2016 @ 3:40PM Eastern – fare gone
Sailing in Hong Kong – Photo: Prachanart Viriyaraks via Flickr, used under Creative Commons License (By 2.0)
Sample Travel Date:
- Sample from Washington D.C.
- April 12th – 19th
Fare Availability:
- Valid for travel on the outbound from until mid May or late August – November or January, 2017 – February, 2017 for Monday through Thursday departures and returns. Must purchase at least 3 days in advance of departure.
- Please note that while this fare is valid at time of posting, if this post is more than two days old, the fare is likely gone.
How to Search for Availability:
- Use ITA Software Matrix Airfare Search and use the following search criteria:
- Departing from: EWR
- For Washington D.C. availability, replace EWR with WAS on the Departing from: field
- For Chicago availability, replace EWR with ORD on the Departing from: field
- For San Francisco availability, replace EWR with SFO on the Departing from: field
- For Denver availability, replace EWR with DEN on the Departing from: field
- For Houston availability, replace EWR with IAH on the Departing from: field
- Outbound Advanced Routing Code: dl+ /f bc=v
- Destination: HKG
- Return Advanced Routing Code: dl+ /f bc=v
- (Click on Advanced Routing Codes link to enable advanced routing code input)
- Select “See calendar of lowest fares”
- Length of stay “3-10” (This is just a sample, you can use any 7 day date range like 3-10, 7-14 etc)
- Departing from: EWR
- Beginner’s Guide on How to Use Matrix by ITA Software
- How to Read Airfare Rules and Use It to Your Advantage
You cannot buy tickets using ITA. To buy, follow our instructions in the “How to Book” section below.
Fare Class:
- V
Elite Qualifying Dollars:
- $389.81
Routing:
- EWR – SEA (Seattle) – HKG (Hong Kong) – SEA – EWR
Stopover:
- One permitted for $100
- How to Take Advantage of a Stopover
Mileage:
- Miles Flown: 17,756 miles or 2.7 cents per mile
- Elite Qualifying Miles: 17,756 miles
- Redeemable Miles: 1,949 miles
Unless you are a Delta frequent flyer, you would earn more redeemable miles crediting this to Alaska Airlines if you take a routing that is 100% operated by Delta with Delta flight numbers. You will earn 50% mileage or 8,878 miles when crediting to Alaska with this routing. Mileage accrual will vary depending on routing.
How to Book:
- Support us by using our Priceline link to book with dates found on ITA Software Matrix Airfare Search. Make sure you enter “Delta” on the Airline textbox under the Advanced Options section of the form.
- Priceline’s risk free 24 hour cancellation policy here.
Old price – $483!
New Price – $445!!!!!!
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Jan 25-Feb 3 EWR-HKG for $526, just in time for Chinese New Year, thanks TFD. This is the 6th time a deal you posted has helped me out, so I bought the ticket from your priceline link to help you out 🙂
@Shawn – thanks for your support.
2 questions:
1. Each travel engine returns different results, and many of them don’t return the cheap results from ITA. Is that normal?
2. ITA requires the routing code in both trips to pull up the $500 fare. How would you search for $100 stopover using ITA’s multicities?
(1) WAS – [Japan] –> input “dl+ / f bc=v”, or specify “the airlines approved for circle trips according to the fare code” in the routing field?
(2) [Japan] – HKG –> specify approved airlines in routing field?
(3) HKG – WAS –> still input “dl+ / f bc=v”?
3. The fare code says it allows circle trip. Can you search it like stopover on ITA?
@Ed – our stopover guide linked would provide you good info on finding and doing a stopover. it is a very manual process.
as for OTA resulting different results, that happens sometimes.
Thank you. Yeah I actually went thru your guide and others, but couldn’t get anywhere. Because in this case the “dl+ / f bc=v” code is required to even pull up the parent ticket at the ~$500 price. But all the guides I could find don’t address this scenario. And I consulted as much ITA syntax and commands as I could to combine tickets.
@Ed – since you want to stopover in japan, we would try this in the routing code:
outbound: sea nrt
return: nrt sea
to see if it prices around the same price. if it does, then try to play with the stopover.
Thank you! Too bad the deal seems to be over in the middle of me testing for destinations.
Do y’all have more in depth guides for ita syntax?
I coudln’t figure out how to search for multiple stopover cities as “OR” at once in the routing code. For ex, for the return trip, I tried “NRT,HND,NGO,ITM,KIX sea”, but that showed no results (vs. results for “nrt sea”, which wasn’t the same price)
The advanced code is not working the matrix.
@Danielle – we just did it and its working fine. Does your ITA look like this?
I see what happened – during the summer nothing is showing up.
@Danielle – per the post, the valid travel period is: Valid for travel on the outbound from until mid May or late August – November or January, 2017 – February, 2017 for Monday through Thursday departures and returns. Must purchase at least 3 days in advance of departure.
so not going to work for summer.
I just booked using Priceline. I think it was a great idea for you to add Priceline cancellation policy to your booking pages. Note that Priceline showed the precise final cancellation time on the bottom of their last page prior to booking the reservation.
@Louis – thanks for your support.
Newbie here. So how would I be able to earn the 17,756 miles for a class V fare?
@p2y12 – you create a delta skymiles account on delta.com — it’s free, then add the # to the reservation. the 17,756 is elite qualifying miles — which for most is meaningless unless you fly a lot, miles you can actually use is 1,949 miles.
You often suggest, as you do above, that miles be credited to Alaska Airlines. So shouldn’t we be setting up an account on that airline and asking that the miles be credited there? I imagine that this can be done until the flights are taken, maybe for a period of time afterwards.
@Louis – for some Delta marketed flights like this, we recommend non-frequent flyers crediting to Alaska because they earn more miles. we were just illustrating the process of getting the miles for a newbie.
I still struggle with ITA codes. I can put in exactly the codes you give and get the flights from IAH for that price. (great!).
Ok, so since I usually fly out of Austin I thought I would try a search that would route me AUS-IAH-HKG and back to see if I could get the $400 fare + what it might cost to add on the AUS-IAH leg.
How can I code it?
@Cynthia, the fare is not from AUS, so it is not possible to get that pricing from there. Only Newark, DC, Chicago, San Francisco, Denver and Houston will price in the $400s.
I understand that. I wanted to see if it would price the $400 plus the amount if I added on AUS. See if it would be worth the trouble of getting a separate ticket AUS-IAH-AUS or if it would be just as easy for a little more $ to price it all as one ticket.
My problem is I don’t know the correct syntax for adding AUS to the routings.
@Cynthia – most cheap tickets now-a-days do not let you do end to end ticketing (e.g., add a segment to a cheap ticket). In this particular instance, it would’ve priced as as AUS – Tokyo.