United: Fly Nonstop In Standard Economy Between Los Angeles And Orlando For $35 Or 2.2K Hybrid Points Each Way; Don’t Upgrade To Basic Economy!

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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.
• 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 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!
• United is not blocking seats, but you can always buy an extra seat if you want to guarantee an empty seat next to you by making the first name of the ticket EXTRASEAT with your last name. You’ll even get double your baggage allowance!
• Airlines are allowing free changes on all tickets.
• If you pay with your Chase United Explorer card you can bring a free carry-on, a free checked bag, and have priority boarding. The Chase United Club card allows for 2 free checked bags.

Read more in the DDF Orlando Master Thread and in the DDF Los Angeles Master Thread.

American, Delta, JetBlue, and United have been competing Frontier’s ultra-low pricing between Los Angeles and Orlando.

While previously their lowest fares were all basic economy, which were created to fight back against ultra low cost carriers, United now has $35 standard economy tickets on this route! That makes them the best option on the route now.

United: Los Angeles to Orlando $35 dates:
October: 10, 15, 16, 17, 23, 24, 26, 29, 30, 31
November: 1 through 18, 24, 25
December 2 through 15
January 5 through 31
February 1 through 9

United: Orlando to Los Angeles $35 dates:
October: 8, 9, 15, 16, 22, 23, 24, 29, 30, 31
November: 1 through 19, 22, 23, 26
December 1 through 16
January 5 through 31
February 1 through 7

Whatever you do, make sure not to pay the $3 to upgrade to basic economy! Personally I think this is a great way to prove that you are not a robot, sure beats finding sidewalks or traffic lights! 😀

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 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 just 2,340 points each way 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 register for an airline here.

You can login to your account and redeem AMEX points for travel here.

AMEX charges 3,510 points plus you’ll get back a rebate of 1,229 points with the Business Platinum Card or 878 points with the Business Gold Card, dropping the total needed to as low as 2,281 points. That includes all taxes and you can still earn miles for flying!

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