Originally Posted by
amolkold
Neither AA nor UA allows cash + points. Only programs like Avianca/TACA and British Airways (for some redemptions) allow this.
Wow, this
really ruins it for me. The news just keeps getting worse and worse.
Now, I can't even purchase Business class with points/miles + money? It was bad enough to find out that I can't combine miles. I'm still reeling from
that one. But this other piece of bad news just disgusts me to the point that I want to give up the whole thing. I don't even think I can earn an
economy international flight now, let alone anything else.
Originally Posted by
Stubtify
You'll want to use the best miles to get you where you want to go--not just randomly waste any and all miles you have at will.
Frankly, I'm pretty demoralized by now. I keep getting one piece of bad news after another.
First, it was that I can't combine ff miles, even among airlines in the
same alliance. This seriously limits me.
Now, I'm finding out that I can't even add cash to miles if I am short of earning a flight.
I'm not sure I even want to go through the trouble of doing this. No wonder most people don't.