Originally Posted by sbm12
Well, he was reading directly from the rules on the screen, and I know that someone else recently reported being able to use an AS segment on a DL reward.
As for booking in F or J, I want CO BF since I think that most of my long haul at the beginning is going to be there. I may end up in NW or DL domestic F headed to Hawaii on the outbound. I know that it is a "waste" of miles, but I have a lot, and it is my honeymoon. May as well use them now!
So I finally got it booked. I was unable to use the VS segment HKG-LHR. The rep wasn't sure if that was a route that CO never can book on, or if it was because of the RTW award. I managed to get the AF HKG-CDG instead, so no big deal. The other interesting one was that flying from Paris to Greece is disallowed as backtracking (on a westbound routing). A little annoying, but we reworked our schedule to visit the cities in order and it seems to be OK.
The one other thing that was a bit surprising to me is that CO won't let their Platinum Elites book into their dedicated PLT inventory for the RTW reward. So instead of finding the EG seats we had to find E on all the CO operated flights. It screwed up a couple of our routes, adding a couple of segments to route around the availability issues, but, again, it all worked out. And it only took an hour and 45 minutes to find all the flights. The CO PLT reservation desk was supremely helpful in making this work.
Here's the routing we're going to do:
EWR-CO-NRT
NRT-NW-SPN
SPN-CO-GUM
GUM-CO-ROR
ROR-CO-GUM
GUM-CO-HKG
HKG-AF-CDG
CDG-AZ-MXP
MXP-AZ-ATH
ATH-AZ-FCO
FCO-AZ-CDG
CDG-AF-JFK
We only have three weeks to make the trip, so this was about as much as we could handle as far as different stops and destinations.
Seth.