what a fiasco, call center still unable to book Star Alliance awards! I guess they are not really in a hurry to fix it though...
I booked an LX award last night with my UA miles as I can't get to a TK airport ticket counter until tomorrow at the earliest and didn't want to lose the seat...
my plan is now to try to book same flight with TK and transfer ThankYou points to TK to redeem, then once ticketed, cancel the UA booking...
only concern I have is that the ThankYou points transfer takes usually 48-72 hours and that in the meantime the LX system will auto cancel BOTH bookings as they will flag it as a double booking...
what is the likelihood of that happening, and is it worth the risk/stress to save the 25k miles?!