We live in Germany and are currently booked on LH to travel FRA-SFO then SFO-KOA the 18th/26th of December. The cancellation fee is reasonable if I find another option.

We have LH Miles & More mileage accounts for each of us but any Star Alliance would give us miles I believe. I just flew US Airways FRA/PHX/DEN/FRA last week and they did put my LH number on there.

I have about 150k Alaska Air miles but they are useless for this flight, besides the fact that there are 3 of us. My hubby has probably 50k AkAir miles as does my son. I have tried to figure out how to use these maybe on AA or something but not having any luck........any suggestions?

Actually I just checked our Alaska Air miles
me 150,219
hubby 59, 398
our son 45, 456

What I am wondering is, do any of you think there is a better airline to look into for this flight? It is going to be MISERABLE in coach for that long of a flight, I am such a baby. I hated the 330Airbus that UsAirways had us on last week so am glad we won't be on one of those for the flight.

I have been considering getting a 4th seat (3 of us traveling) so that we can have the whole 4 seat row. We did this when we came here ATL/FRA but this flight will be much longer.

I would love to find business/first for a reasonable rate but that does not look promising. That is what I would rather do really but I am not sure if there are ones that I could use maybe half pay half miles and utilize the Alaska Air miles?