Award tickets are allocated in 'buckets' so a klm flight from DTW to AMS will have a KLM award ticket bucket, a separate Northwest award ticket bucket, and a third Continental one pass award ticket bucket.

If you have 2 passengers traveling the same itinerary you may have to pull flight segments from different buckets because the allocation on say KL is gone but NW or CO still has award space in their "award ticket buckets"

Sometimes when traveling from CMH to WAW I have an award ticket with some NW flights on KL Metal and some KL codeshare flights on Northwest metal because the award ticket had to be spread out on more than one airline's award ticket bucket(s).

Does this make any sense?

[This message has been edited by Radiocycle (edited 12-21-2002).]