Seeking advice as to booking via miles or $$$.
Hello,
I hope to sort this out as soon as possible. I need to book 2 tickets for my mother and sister as they need to travel together, 11/18 thru 12/03 from ABJ to JNB. I have 35K miles and it will cost 25K for one person + $156 in taxes and that's through a partner airline.
1. I woulk like to use the remaining 10k in combination with 5K miles transferred from mother's account for $75 = 15K
2. It would cost over $438 to purchase 11K miles from United
3. If I booked a one way ticket, it would cost me $550 to buy the other way from the airline
4. Taxes on the award travel are $156 (+ 438 for the second ticket)
5.the round trip per the partner airline is over $800
6. United told me that there are only 3 seats lest on the flight but the airlines said that there are more than 100 seats available. Does United only gets a few seats?
7. I may not have enough time to apply for a cc.
Please Help.
Thanks