Originally Posted by gsttp
I am currently leaving in the US, but I will be relocated in Dubai. I have lots of milage with AA, CO, UA (around 100,000 each). I don't want to loose the mileages, so I have two options:
- Travel all around using all my miles, or/and
- Transfer them to airlines based in Dubai.
I will be travelling very frequently with Emirates as soon as I am relocated.
I need your advice... @:-)
Thank you,
Alex.
We live in Dubai, and held onto our UA miles. They have a desk at the DNATA airline center and we've had absolutely NO problems going there and getting award tickets on other Star Alliance airlines right there on the spot! (A very different experience than we've had trying to use our KLM miles!!!) The only advantage that I can see with Emirates miles is that they can be used on hotels, etc. in the area, but the big disadvantage is that their miles expire. We've lost enough of the Emirates miles through expiration that we usually put the Emirates miles on our UA account...so much easier to use them.