The low fare (only $412 round trip!) meant just 135 PQD on the Zurich-Los Angeles leg. Normally I would charge it to a card with a bigger bonus (like 5x for airfare on The Platinum Card from American Express), but I was trying to spend enough on the card to waive the Premier Qualifying Dollar requirement for Premier status.Unlike my outbound flight on Lufthansa, which accrued no MileagePlus earnings, the return on Swiss would get me 945 award miles and 5,939 Premier Qualifying Miles. I had booked the flights on and charged the fare to my United MileagePlus Explorer Card, which earned me 2x miles. TPG has already reviewed the Swiss experience on the 777 in first class and business, Booking The flight from Nice to Zurich was on an Airbus A319 and the long haul from Zurich was scheduled on the flagship of the Swiss fleet, the Boeing 777-300ER, which offers three classes of service. I'd heard great things about flying with Swiss and I was eager to fly the airline for my first time. How would the long flights over the Atlantic compare? The return had me on Swiss through Zurich (ZRH). The outbound put me on Lufthansa through Munich, a solid economy-class experience on an Airbus A340-600. I found a great fare to Nice (NCE) from my home in Los Angeles (LAX). Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available.
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