Originally Posted by
kmoodus
I feel sure this question has been asked 1000 times yet I haven't been able to find an answer I can interpret as a complete newbie to this site. Please re-post/re-direct or otherwise give me a clue.
I have 134K miles on United (transferrable to CO, presumably useable for other Star Alliance). Want to travel with friend from any NYC airport to just about anywhere in Europe, but I can only travel departing around Aug 5-6 returning Aug 13-14. Have called both airlines multiple times and keep getting disconnected while on hold; UA site keeps showing no availability whatever cities/dates I put in.
Is there anything that lets you plug in dates and shows award availability FROM a given point but flexible as to destination? If not, suggested course of action? I fear the KVS tool is too advanced for me.
Thank you
Fear not -- you could have found these 2 Awards seats to BRU in far less time it had taken you to write that post

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[KVS Availability Tool 6.1.5/Diamond - SNT: Awards/StarAlliance/JP-ANA-SP1]
Code:
NYC New York Metro NY US = JFK LGA
BRU Brussels Metro / National BE = BRU CRL ZYR [EBBR]
SAT 06 Aug 2011 | 2 Seats
Carrier Flight From Depart To Arrive A/C St Availability
--------- ------ ---- -------- ---- -------- --- -- -------------
CO 60 EWR 18:15 BRU 07:45 +1 777 0 FS/ CS- YS+
CO 18 EWR 09:00 LHR 21:20 752 0 FS/ CS- YS-
-> SN 2104 LHR 06:50 +1 BRU 09:05 +1 AR8 0 FS/ CS? YS?
CO 112 EWR 21:10 LHR 09:25 +1 752 0 FS/ CS- YS-
-> SN 2094 LHR 11:05 +1 BRU 13:20 +1 EQV 0 FS/ CS? YS?
CO 114 EWR 22:10 LHR 10:15 +1 752 0 FS/ CS- YS-
-> SN 2102 LHR 19:00 +1 BRU 21:10 +1 EQV 0 FS/ CS? YS?
CO 26 EWR 19:05 BHX 07:10 +1 752 0 FS/ CS- YS-
-> SN 2046 BHX 15:55 +1 BRU 18:05 +1 DH4 0 FS/ CS? YS?
CO 20 EWR 19:40 MAN 07:40 +1 752 0 FS/ CS- YS-
-> SN 2174 MAN 10:35 +1 BRU 12:50 +1 AR8 0 FS/ CS? YS?
CO 100 EWR 22:10 MAN 10:00 +1 752 0 FS/ CS- YS-
-> SN 2178 MAN 18:00 +1 BRU 20:15 +1 AR8 0 FS/ CS- YS-
CO 108 EWR 22:20 EDI 10:00 +1 752 0 FS/ CS- YS-
-> BD 1629 EDI 11:10 +1 BRU 13:45 +1 ER4 0 FS/ CS- YS-