Originally posted by dgordon:
I wonder why airlines don't allow a one way reward ticket for 1/2 the miles 12,500 or even 15,000 for one way. How can we get the airlines to consider this?
There's been several times when one way award tickets would have been very handy. I still don't understand why they are not allowed.
I got bit by this last year, was spending sometime in asia on a cheapie ticket. The day before I was set to leave Thailand to travel to Singapore to fly home, had a medical emergancy and ended up spending a week in the hospital. Missed my (United, non-changable) flight in Singapore and wanted to use miles to return home. not only could I not get a one way ticket for half the miles, there were no round trip saver tickets available from bangkok for several weeks. Didn't have enough miles for a standard round trip and was too sick to think clearly enough to come up with any good schemes.
Ended up flying first class on Northwest for less than the price of coach on United.
I had always assumed that you could do one way award tickets.
As an aside, the medical attention in Thailand was great and I paid for it with my Mileage Plus MasterCard, so all was not lost!