Originally Posted by
WineCountryUA
Welcome to FT!,
fyree39
Where will you be starting from?
A economy saver round trip (RT) for North America is 25K, so with 53K you should have enough already.
An option when you have insufficient miles in one account is to split up the trip as a series of one ways (OW) -- two RTs become 4 OWs and fund 3 from one account and the fourth from another is one example. There are some disadvantages of this appraoch -- if you need to cancel the fees will be higher. Also international award RTs can have a stopover but OWs can not.
If you could provide a bit more info -- such as the mileage required for the individual tickets, we can probably provide a couple of more suggestions.
You may find this useful
FT Glossary
United Airlines Forum Glossary (a little out of date but still helpful)
We're really torn as to whether we want to save up and use miles from IYK (or possibly LAX depending on flight schedules) to LHR, or use them for our new hobby of seeing baseball games in distant cities. A Yankees game is on our list for next year with a few days spent in NYC exploring. I'd like to use the miles for baseball games and DH would like to save for London.
Originally Posted by
GregMM
There is a glossary link at the bottom of every page that will help with a lot of them, and an airport code lookup link right next to it that will help with others.
Thank you! That helps!