Originally Posted by
carrotjuice
By some sort of a holy grail quest, I managed to find 2 award tickets available for 2 passengers who wish to travel together.
Ideally I'd like to book them separately, where miles and taxes for passenger A would be charged to passenger A's AM account and credit card. And likewise separately for passenger B.
Would it be the case that, after passenger A books, the other ticket will still remain available for passenger B to make a separate booking (assuming noone else snags it in the meantime)? Or will the second availability be zerorised as soon as the first ticket has been booked?
Originally Posted by
brunos
It is impossible to second guess the yield management system.
Originally Posted by
percysmith
If you call for the booking you can deduct two accounts. Me and missus frequently do that. We don’t try to separate payment of taxes tho (in fact it has to go into my card for included travel cover)
Agree with
brunos that GDS today is so complex that anything can happen, although I do not see why taking 1 seat would result in the other seat in the same booking class disappearing.
percysmith's trick works to deduct miles from different account but not pay separately. In the past when you paid via phone, this was doable, but not now that all payments are processed online. If you want extra assurance, what you can do is to create this booking (probably better over the phone) with 2 pax in the same PNR, then ask the agent to split the PNR after all segments are booked, before getting separate payment links for individual PNRs.