Originally Posted by mahdnc

My wife was asking me about the possibility of buying 3 award tickets in Economy--basically we would own the middle seat--as an alternative to buying two Premium Plus award seats. So 3 x 44k miles vs 2 x 140k miles. What are you opinions about that? And I presume that it has to be called in as opposed to arranging for on-line?
BTW, the ANA option has disappeared this morning with several UA/SQ (Europe connection) options added.