Originally Posted by
TravelingAssociate
Booking two first class seats from IAD-MLE on Emirates using JAL miles. I can work with the dates for the flights between IAD and DXB (stopover), but JAL is seeing no availability for two seats in F from DXB-MLE. Is there a conceivable way of having JAL add the DXB-MLE segment to the award later?
They are refusing to do so, which puts me in a bind because the additional mileage from DXB to MLE would keep me within the same round trip mileage level (155,000 miles) while booking them as a separate itinerary means another 120,000 miles for me. So....a huge difference.
Any thoughts?
Why not just book business on the short legs? They're only four hours and if you're traveling with your wife, you can sit together on the A/B, J/K pairs. It's a total downgrade, but you would have had the royal experience via the a380 in first class anyway.