SkyTeam Award on CO
Oct 20, 2008, 11:19 pm
#1
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Join Date: Oct 2008
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SkyTeam Award on CO
Sorry for the really stupid question but how does one book an SkyTeam award ticket on Continental?
I'm on NWA and CO is offering a better slew of reward options (on NWA flights, no less). On NWA and Delta I can just simply select from an option of airlines but can't find it on Co...
I'm on NWA and CO is offering a better slew of reward options (on NWA flights, no less). On NWA and Delta I can just simply select from an option of airlines but can't find it on Co...
Oct 21, 2008, 6:45 am
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If Continental has "Standard" rewards available on the dates/flights you want you can try to get them from the nwa.com web site or just call in to NWA and have them booked using your NW miles. If you do call in simply tell them that you want to book a reward using flights on a partner and they should be happy to confirm the availability for you. I see that you have mentioned that CO seems to have better availability on NW-operated flights. That is pretty unusual as partners generally get a subset of the rewards that the operating carrier has available. Are you sure that the same flights aren't available from nwa.com?
If Continental has "Standard" rewards available on the dates/flights you want you can try to get them from the nwa.com web site or just call in to NWA and have them booked using your NW miles. If you do call in simply tell them that you want to book a reward using flights on a partner and they should be happy to confirm the availability for you. I see that you have mentioned that CO seems to have better availability on NW-operated flights. That is pretty unusual as partners generally get a subset of the rewards that the operating carrier has available. Are you sure that the same flights aren't available from nwa.com?
Oct 21, 2008, 7:33 am
#3
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Join Date: Oct 2008
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There were a couple more flights on CO...
I'm looking to fly from DTW to CDG over Thanksgiving and there was a flight on NW/KLM/AF arriving around 8am that wasn't even available on NWA (the earliest arriving around 12:00n). I was surprised to see that since it was NW/KLM. Probably because all the NWA ones have been claimed?
Also, the fees on CO are half that of NWA...
I'm looking to fly from DTW to CDG over Thanksgiving and there was a flight on NW/KLM/AF arriving around 8am that wasn't even available on NWA (the earliest arriving around 12:00n). I was surprised to see that since it was NW/KLM. Probably because all the NWA ones have been claimed?
Also, the fees on CO are half that of NWA...
Oct 21, 2008, 9:16 am
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There were a couple more flights on CO...
I'm looking to fly from DTW to CDG over Thanksgiving and there was a flight on NW/KLM/AF arriving around 8am that wasn't even available on NWA (the earliest arriving around 12:00n). I was surprised to see that since it was NW/KLM. Probably because all the NWA ones have been claimed?
Also, the fees on CO are half that of NWA...
I'm looking to fly from DTW to CDG over Thanksgiving and there was a flight on NW/KLM/AF arriving around 8am that wasn't even available on NWA (the earliest arriving around 12:00n). I was surprised to see that since it was NW/KLM. Probably because all the NWA ones have been claimed?
Also, the fees on CO are half that of NWA...
And since your miles are in the NW program you have to pay NW fees. No way around that.