Originally Posted by KathyWdrf
Here's another similar question about "combining" reservations (but somewhat embarrassing, as I am not an FT or UA newbie): Is there a way to link a paid and an award res, at least if the carriers are the same or in the same alliance?
I did something like that about 5 years ago. My wife was joining me for a business trip to the UK and was flying on my miles. We got her tickets first and she had some odd routing like SEA-SFO-JFK-LHR. My corporate travel department had a more direct route in mind (1 stop, IIRC). I asked them to check the routing my wife was flying and it wound up being cheaper (duh, it was a lot less convenient). I took it so we could travel together and the company saved a few bucks. Wish I had known I could have had her in E+, it would have been much more pleasant that what happened on the SFO-JFK leg (I had ailse, she had window and at the last minute before the door closed a woman with two toddlers and a 6th grader in tow boarded - one dirty diaper between us and the other on the aisle seat across from me. NEVER AGAIN!)