Originally Posted by
calguy77
OK, but what about if one person in the party doesn't have enough miles to cover their ticket. Can I use my miles to cover it without having to transfer the miles to the other person?
A given award ticket can only be funded from a single account.
Separate PNRs, OWs, ... are tricks to break tickets into smallest pieces to make use of smaller accounts. But in the end it is one ticket, one account.