Originally Posted by
ac921ol
We are looking at taking our first trip with miles, I see that there are Saver Award and Standard award.
Is there any way to specifically search for Saver Award???
we are looking at heading from
WAS-SHA
BKK-Was
we plan on flying from SHA to HKG from HKG to BKK (total for both of us would only be $540, so we thought we'd spend that and save some miles)
Best Ive seen is about 195k miles and $120 in taxes and fees.
We are flexible with dates and would like to find them for Saver Awards. The search dates we were currently looking at were including Labor day (Sept 1) so its one less PTO day, but when we looked in middle of May we were found flight from WAS to HKK and BKK to WAS for 130k miles. (We know its different then flying to shanghai) The good thing was, I was able to pick Saver award or Standard Award, I obviously picked the Saver which is odd. (We are just looking for Saver Award if possible, if not thats fine. as long as one is saver award and doesnt add multiple layovers and hours)
We are 110% fine flying economy.
Thank you so much for the help.
Washington D.C to Shanghai should only be 32,500 miles on UA one-way. BKK will cost you more because UA is d/c service there and it will put you on a star alliance partner which will cost a lot more miles than UA. BTW based on my search there is nothing in may or june.
When you search, the calendar on the top will show you saver availability based on the colors the day is lighted up on. Yellow days are the days with availability. There's a key just in case you were wondering.
here are multiple options for WAS-SHA for 32k miles on July 7th
