FI booked our honeymoon flights today! We booked our accommodations a month ago (all-inclusive in Cancun for 11 nights, woot!), but we had put off flights thinking we could always find a better deal.
FI works for a national airline, so we have some flight vouchers, discounts, and a credit card for said airline with a bunch of miles on it. The airline has direct flights to Cancun, but we just found out they stop the direct flights in April. We had been banking on those direct flights to have relatively cheap first-class seats at least on some legs, but now we have to fly on multiple airlines if we want to use any discounts.
Yesterday FI started throwing a bunch of numbers at me, with costs for all of the flights separately so we could use our vouchers and discounts for the domestic legs, at which point my brain melted and/or I stopped paying attention. I was inclined to just go on Kayak and buy round-trip coach seats because it was getting WAY too complicated and expensive, but FI was set on first class for at least part of the trip.
So now, we're using his employee credits for flights to Dallas and airline miles to upgrade to first class, then regular coach seats on another airline from Dallas to Cancun (with the hope we can upgrade at the gate), and then first class on a third airline all the way home. Somehow he managed to do this for about $200 more per person vs. just buying round trip coach seats on Kayak, mainly because the domestic flight on the way there will be super cheap. I still don't completely understand what he did or how we're getting there, but he's an engineer - so I am just going to put faith in his math and planning skills.
Assuming his plans are solid, three months from today we'll be en route to Cancun!