Originally Posted by
guv1976
Forgive me if this has been mentioned up-thread, but I just recently discovered that MileagePlus miles can be redeemed for award travel to the Amtrak/UA codeshare stations (via EWR, of course).
In some cases, a Coach award to ZFV via EWR costs fewer miles than an award just to EWR!
Are you sure? I tried it just the other day without success, getting some united.bomb message it wasn't a valid origination. Was trying to get around the exceedingly high PHL-BOS ticket price with an award ticket.
***Hey, it seems to be working now. Great. Thanks.