Hi

I would like to take my wife to Europe as she has never been there. Destinations of interest would either be London, Paris, or Rome. I currently have 50,000 United Miles from the Visa deal. I know I need to do the Netflix deal for 4K more miles and charge to get the 55,000 miles for a roundtrip ticket on UA.

On my Delta account, I have 55,000 miles, so I need to figure out how to get to 5k miles for a roundtrip ticket to Europe from the US. Timing of the trip is flexible I am interested in going when I can obtain reward tickets for both of us.

My questions are as follows:

-I can book one of the tickets in her name, even though it is my account, and the airline will not see that as a problem?
-Since I know these two airlines are not on an alliance, we are prepared to fly out there separately and meet in one of these cities and time it right (unless anyone has suggestions as to how to avoid that?)
-If anyone has any ideas on how to pull this off, it would be greatly appreciated, as well as the best time to go, maybe Jan-April 2011?

Thanks for your responses.

Ricky