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You could also work on earning transferable miles that transfer into the same airline program. For instance if you wanted key west discount hotels to use Avios to fly American Airlines from the west coast to Hawaii , one of you could earn Ultimate Rewards and one could earn Membership Rewards. Both types of points transfer to Avios, so in the end you d both have Avios.
key west discount hotels Finally you can earn miles in partner key west discount hotels programs. For instance if you have 90k US Airways miles and your companion key west discount hotels has 120k United miles, you can both fly roundtrip in business class to North Asia on the same Star Alliance flights. United and US Airways are both part of the Star Alliance, so they have the same access to each other s saver award space and their alliance members key west discount hotels saver award space.
Keep in mind that partner programs don t have to be in the same alliance. If you both want to fly Cathay Pacific, one of you can use American Airlines miles and the other can use Alaska key west discount hotels miles . If you want to fly Hawaiian Airlines from Los Angeles to Honolulu, one of you can use Hawaiian miles and the other can use American miles.
Let s go back to the example of using 90k US Airways miles and 120k United miles to get two people from the US to North Asia roundtrip key west discount hotels in business class. Even though you are using two types of miles and this will take two reservations, you should search as if this would be ticketed on one reservation.
Go to the best search engine for the search you want. For this search, key west discount hotels I would recommend united.com, which I explained how to search here . Search as if you were going to redeem United miles for both passengers. Here s a search for two people from Chicago to Seoul.
After noting the flight information of the flights with award space date, time, flight number and the taxes, I am ready to book. But since I am not booking both with United miles, I abort the booking in progress to move on to the actual way I ll book the awards.
The goal is to get both people booked on the same flights. The second best scenario is to book nobody on any flights and to start searching again. The worst outcome is to book one person on the flights and then have award space disappear before the second person is booked.
Hold one US Airways award by phone. Ticket one United award for 120k miles online. Call US Airways key west discount hotels back and ticket the held award for 90k miles by giving the confirmation number to the agent of the held award.
If you re not on the same reservation, you may run into problems during irregular operations. For instance if one of your flights is cancelled, you may be automatically key west discount hotels rebooked separately on different flights and need to go through some phone agent agony to get it all straightened back out.
You both have 135k AA miles and want to fly roundtrip First Class New York to Hong Kong. Instead of booking one roundtrip from each of your accounts, book two outbounds from one account and two returns from another.
Booking key west discount hotels two or more award tickets from two or more airline accounts is common and easy. Pay careful attention to the types of miles you re earning and to the hold policies, and you ll be traveling with your companion in no time.
This is a common question I had thanks, your site has helped been very helpful. Does this same concept hold if the same person has chunks of miles with different carriers in the same alliance key west discount hotels can those be combined? I m collecting key west discount hotels United miles and recently key west discount hotels booked a dirt-cheap trip on Turkish. The trip was so dirt cheap its not eligible for United miles (W class) and I don t know if me having 20,000 Turkish Miles Smiles would ever result in any benefit.
I just did this very thing a couple of days ago. I had a bunch of ultimate rewards key west discount hotels points along with some miles in me and my wife s united accounts. We booked key west discount hotels 4 tickets to Hong Kong together 4 one ways on the outbound along with 4 one ways on the return. I thought this was a great strategy to keep us all on the same confirmation number for the entire trip. This way we check in for flights once, not twice, key west discount hotels and we don t get separated during irregularities. Just to clarify, the united website will let you hold an award for 1 day without any tricks if you don t have enough miles in your account.
I read somewhere that you can ask the airline to link reservations for travel companions key west discount hotels on different confirmation codes. I ve called in several key west discount hotels times and asked agents to link reservations and they ve done it, though so far, we ve had no issues for me to judge how successful it is.
On booking UA using two one-way s, aside from the drawbacks MileValue mentioned (no stopover, openjaw, free 1-way), I think the cancellation fee is also generally higher (if you somehow key west discount hotels have to cancel, and have no airline status key west discount hotels to waive the fee). If you book a round-trip, key west discount hotels it is one cancellation fee. If you book two 1-way s, it is TWO times of that fee.
I was short of united miles while booking 8 tickets together at saver level. There were 9 available. key west discount hotels I called us airways to try and book two of those and two diff agents told me that space wasn t visible to them, and explained it as partners not necessarily having access to all the award space. What should I have done?
So to clarify, key west discount hotels if my wife and I each have 100k United miles in our respective accounts for a RT biz trip to Europe, there is no way to book on a single PNR? I was hoping that if we booked at the same time over the phone, the agent would be able to ticket as one reservation. I assume they should at least be willing to hold one set of flights for the duration of the phone call until the secure the second set for the other account, right?
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