Originally Posted by
fajimenez
Would it make any difference if both tickets were on miles?
If I understand your response correctly, I can book a ticket for my son with my own miles.
Thanks!
As the other posters have indicated, you can book a ticket for
anyone using your own miles. The issue you're going to have is due to the fact that you are trying to book two tickets, one with your miles and one with your wife's. Because you're using miles from two different accounts, you are forced to book the tickets into two separate reservations. When a reservation is made for a minor, if there is no adult on the same reservation you will be charged the unaccompanied minor fee. Because your son is a minor and there will be no adult in the same reservation, you are going to need to call reservations to see if it is possible to avoid the unaccompanied minor fee by explaining that he won't really be traveling unaccompanied, but rather with your wife who is in a different PNR.
If you happen to have enough miles in your account to book both your wife and your son's ticket, then you can avoid all of this hassle.
Originally Posted by
masonuc
You can buy a ticket for anyone with your miles, you just can't combine miles with someone to purchase a ticket. So yes, you can do that.
Just book the ticket online and don't indicate he's a minor. Even if you fill out the birthdate on the traveler ID part online, it still won't matter. I do this all the time, I book my kids' tickets as adult because it makes no difference so far as I can tell in fare or anything and helps avoid any unnecessary hassles.
Perhaps you haven't done it recently? If so, how do you move beyond the validation of the birth date field during booking? If you book it as an adult, but have a birth year of 1996 or later it now rejects the booking.