Skyteam redemption on MH
#1
Original Poster
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Australia
Programs: QF, SQ
Posts: 326
Skyteam redemption on MH
I have 200,000 miles with AF-KL to use up as continue to be appalled by Skyteam - so ready to cash them all in.
Has anyone been successful in redeeming say LHR-KUL on Malaysia Airlines in F?
Has anyone been successful in redeeming say LHR-KUL on Malaysia Airlines in F?
#2
Join Date: Sep 2006
Programs: BA GOLD - AF Platinium
Posts: 94
We have booked and travel MH first class LHR-KUL last october.
The date was quite easy to find. We were 3 in First Class
Do not expect CX or SQ quality but quite OK, better than AF for sure.
It is 160 000 miles FC with Flying Blue.
#3
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: London Town
Programs: BA Silver, AF Silver
Posts: 465
Could someone tell me how to go about booking SkyTeam reward flights with one of the partner airlines? I have 200k miles and am ST Elite+ as part of Flying Blue. Not getting much availability for my chosen destination (LAX) routing out of CDG or AMS, so would like to try CO out of LHR. How do I go about doing this? Online searching doesn't yield much as I'm not a member of CO's own FF program so can't log in.
BTW, I'm not looking to travel until May next year, so it's not imminent. However as it's my honeymoon I am hoping to snap up a couple of biz seats sooner rather than later.
Because CO codeshare with VS regularly, I was hoping to land a couple of UC seats on VS direct to LAX - has anyone else managed to do this using Skyteam miles?
thanks!
BTW, I'm not looking to travel until May next year, so it's not imminent. However as it's my honeymoon I am hoping to snap up a couple of biz seats sooner rather than later.
Because CO codeshare with VS regularly, I was hoping to land a couple of UC seats on VS direct to LAX - has anyone else managed to do this using Skyteam miles?
thanks!
#4
Join Date: May 2003
Location: NY
Programs: AS Gold/SPG Gold/Hertz PC
Posts: 737
You can't book into VS' flight using AF miles ... you can only book award flights operated by the partner (in this case CO)
#5
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: SJC
Programs: UA 1K, AA ExecPlat
Posts: 820
You should be able to do a search for reward flight availability without even needing a CO FF#. For NW in the past, I've generally found it best/easiest to find the routes/dates you want, and then call up the award line to have them search for availability for the itineraries you would like.
#6
Original Poster
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Australia
Programs: QF, SQ
Posts: 326
beware
I spent some time trying to 'educate' the FBlue 'assistant' (having been cut off several times before - i really hate FBlue telephone assistance - btw).. that one could redeem with Malaysia Airlines...
after a few difficult exchanges (shall we say), she decided to actually check and then agreed that miles were indeed redeemable on MAS (LHR-KUL).. but there were no seats 'for weeks and weeks (?)'... so i was told..
i gave up...
will continue to fly on Star Alliance members...
after a few difficult exchanges (shall we say), she decided to actually check and then agreed that miles were indeed redeemable on MAS (LHR-KUL).. but there were no seats 'for weeks and weeks (?)'... so i was told..
i gave up...
will continue to fly on Star Alliance members...
#7
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: New York
Programs: SPG Gold
Posts: 186
is there really no way to see MH award availability for online? I just had a Northwest agent on the phone for about an hour and she came up empty for the dates / routings I wanted. I'd love to be able to call in after having done my own recon.
(p.s. I tried searching on this topic - which is how I ended up in this thread. If there is already a thread that answers this, if someone could point me to it, Id' appreciate that.)
(p.s. I tried searching on this topic - which is how I ended up in this thread. If there is already a thread that answers this, if someone could point me to it, Id' appreciate that.)
#8
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: BCN
Programs: BA Gold · A3 Gold · DL Gold · VY apologist
Posts: 8,545
There's no way to see it. And what's worse, when NW or KL try to get an award from them, they have to send a fax with the requested flights and dates and wait for a fax back from MH. If that date isn't available, they have to repeat the process.
#9
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: BRUSSELS
Programs: Ryanair PLATINUM : ) TK GOLD, AZ Gold, Radisson - gold,Marriott - gold
Posts: 659
redemption on mh
i tried many times but it does not work - there is never any seats availbale and FBlue call centre is truly inefficient
even booking mh miles took 1 week and you need to do it by hand ie pay a visit to an mh office
even booking mh miles took 1 week and you need to do it by hand ie pay a visit to an mh office
#10
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: PRG
Programs: M&M SEN, FB Platinum (Ivory after 1/4/2010 :-)
Posts: 60
I can give you little bit of hope as I succeed to make a economy class booking on MH PRG-FRA-KUL-SYD and back couple of week ago . It was pretty smooth with FB call center. The truth is, I was talking to a guy with Dutch accent. And it always helps. French accent always means a trouble :-)