Originally Posted by Estha
ho do you find out when dates "open up"? i am not platinum or anything. i would really like to book a ticket to india for 60,000 miles as advertised - i don't care when i go - it would be treat to make a quick 2 week trip for free! so far whenever i have checked for any date on the website it comes up as requiring some obscene amount of miles (180K)....is it really hard to find these? is there an efficient way to find them without searching through each date on the website?
First of all, the cheapest WorldPerks award ticket from the U.S. to India is
90,000 miles, not 60,000 miles. (
http://www.nwa.com/worldperks/direct/charts/us49.html)
Now, how do people find out when dates open up? Persistence, usually. Checking nwa.com daily (or sometimes more often) is simple and quick to do, and if something opens up you can snag it. Also, you can call NWA Reservations and have them check for you. They usually can do it faster and can check the partner airlines, alternative routings, and differing dates. It's worth the small administrative fee if you really want the PerkSaver award at 90,000 miles.
And finally, Welcome to FlyerTalk.
