Oceania flight arrangements reliable?

[kevinbush]

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We are booking with Oceania for May 2007 Adriatic cruise and I am thinking about flying on my own using FFM rather than risking Oceania's flights. I seems they don't have the best reputation when it comes to airline arrangements. Any thoughts?

[digby]

:confused:
We are booking with Oceania for May 2007 Adriatic cruise and I am thinking about flying on my own using FFM rather than risking Oceania's flights. I seems they don't have the best reputation when it comes to airline arrangements. Any thoughts?


I always buy my own economy ticket and use FF miles to upgrade to Business Class especially on long international flights. It usually costs about the same as the money "O" reduces the fare by.

[jfb128]

We always take the flight credit and buy our own ticket and use frequent flyer miles to upgrade to business class. I like to control my airline and my times of arrival, departure and connections.

[Andee]

Even adding in the air deviation fee, we could not book our own flights for less than what we would have gotten back in air credit. We selected our own flights, and had no problems.

[roothy123]

We've used their flights twice - both times to different parts of the Med (Barcelona, Lisbon, London, Athens). The flights weren't bad. Had to change planes in Paris or Frankfurt, but I don't think that's unusual for European flights from the DC area. Times were ok; carriers were ok (United, Lufthansa, Air France). We took the free flights because we didn't have any air miles we could use, and couldn't find reasonably-priced flights. Maybe I'm just not that picky, but I was reasonably happy with the arrangements.

[RTLS]

We have just booked flights with Oceania for next Spring to Athens and returning from Venice. We paid the deviation fee and are booked to travel Lufthansa. I checked the Lufthansa website and found that the flights we are on are by far the best offered both for times and length of flight. The quoted cost for the flight is about Can.$1400 p.p.($1300US?) so we feel we have done much better booking through Oceania than we could have
ourselves. Of course, it's a different matter if you have enough FF Miles .

So currently we're very pleased. Let's hope nothing too much changes between now and next April.

[emmalbrent]

We are flying to Istanbul Nov 22 for Nautica Nov 27 cruise. Booked on TED out of Phoenix. Then O'Hare to Frankfurt/Istanbul. Paid air deviation. Now just keeping track of time and seat changes.