Award Booking
Apr 15, 2014, 11:44 am
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Award Booking
I am planning a trip Denver-Frankfurt 2015 with my 13 year old grandson, his first, I used award miles with star alliance Lufthansa in the past, direct flight in business, now with the USAir and AA merger I am so frustrated trying to figure out how to get 2 award seats in business, know it is 330 days, but I been testing no matter what date I put in for business I have 215000 dividend miles and 75000 oneworld even for feb. on usair I cannot get seats for the amount of miles I checked AA and without bb it is 2 and 3 transfers I would not mind one., can someone please help me figure this out I got to be doing something wrong, ideally I would like to go late march 3-to 4 weeks. Thanks in advance
Apr 15, 2014, 10:39 pm
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Award Booking
I would check each leg separately as you may want to pay cash to reposition for the award flight - ideally you'd like to include from Denver but may need to consider ORD/JFK/EWR/PHL or look at SFO/SEA/LAX I would look at options from Philly as I know there is a direct flight to FRA on US. Now that you need to use OneWorld -there are fuel surcharges on British Airways so I wouldn't use that but no fuel surcharges on Aer Lingus -I know you don't want multi stops but you could look to add a stopover and get an extra vacation out of it - stops in London or Dublin for example. try American Chicago to London and then London to Frankfurt. Or Aer Lingus Chicago-Dublin etc - hope this helps
Apr 15, 2014, 11:05 pm
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As US Airways has left Star Alliance & joined OneWorld alliance you cannot use Lufthansa. You are limited to UA Airways partners.
These are the earning partners http://www.usairways.com/en-US/divid.../airlines.html.
I assume the partners to burn miles are the same http://www.usairways.com/en-US/divid.../usemiles.html
Are your 75000 oneworld actually AA miles? (no such thing as OneWorld miles)
I will ask a moderator to move this thread from Star Alliance forum to the US Airways forum, as that is where you have mile
These are the earning partners http://www.usairways.com/en-US/divid.../airlines.html.
I assume the partners to burn miles are the same http://www.usairways.com/en-US/divid.../usemiles.html
Are your 75000 oneworld actually AA miles? (no such thing as OneWorld miles)
I will ask a moderator to move this thread from Star Alliance forum to the US Airways forum, as that is where you have mile
Last edited by Mwenenzi; Apr 16, 2014 at 2:12 am Reason: spelling
Apr 16, 2014, 1:00 am
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The OP should use aa.com to search for "SAAver" award Business Class seats. If any are found, call US to book those seats with Dividend Miles.
Unless things have changed within the past few days, US is not assessing surcharges for Dividend Miles redemptions on BA flights.
The OP should use aa.com to search for "SAAver" award Business Class seats. If any are found, call US to book those seats with Dividend Miles.
Unless things have changed within the past few days, US is not assessing surcharges for Dividend Miles redemptions on BA flights.