Peggy found Super pricing right now on QATAR and EMIRATES for the flight home from CPT to the USA. Sale that goes through 2/11/14. I think these airliines must be in a price war too as we checked KLM and it was more than twice the price.

We are putting our miles back into the account and buying our air. They are using the rand as the originating fare and the $ is so strong against rand.
Ker & Downey sells air and we have used them before to buy our air. So I checked with David Jones (the big cheese) and he has the pricing below in BUSINESS. Connections on to other cities could be quoted by them too or done independently I just asked for DFW.

Of course you can buy this directly from the airline. Pricing should be the same - your choice. I like to be able to call K&D in Houston if I have an issue and let them handle it. Rather than on line or on the phone with the airlines where you often have horrendous wait times. Pros and Cons to each situation a personal choice.

He said the exchange rate will affect final price. I asked David to give us the contact in his air department and that is Cheri Whatley email cwhatley@kerdowney.com

Bottom line these are great prices AND you will get an air credit for the coach portion from Regent probably about $500 as well. Do not know that on the Mariner and just wanted to get this information out. We are cancelling our FF tickets and buying Qatar (we are One World Alliance) Emirates might be better for United Flyers.

QATAR

About $2000 per person

Leave CPT at 6.30 pm Arrive Doha at 6.30 am
Nice short connection time
Depart Doha 8.10 am
Arrive DFW 3.15 pm

EMIRATES
Emirates about $200 more per person approximate times Ken did not write it down.

Depart CPT 1.30 pm
Arrive Dubai 1.30 pm
Nice short connection time again.
Depart Dubai - 3.00 am
Arrive Dallas - 9.00 am

Hope some of you are able to secure these flights we have ours on hold while we cancel our FF tickets.