<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by skofarrell:
Guava,
For Continental you missed some pretty big players:
Northwest (the biggest and most integrated OnePass partner)
America West
These two arlines are linked with CO, so you can very easily book travel outside of the "partner" scheme.
More info: http://onepass.continental.com/rtravel.htm
Before you rush to Delta, I'd ask about award travel and award travel with partners in the CO and DL forums.
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The following comment may seem offensive to some, so I apologize in advance if it's the case: I don't fly Northw
orst. Why bother with North American carriers when Air Canada and UA can get me everywher I want to go within NA already? By the way, to give you an idea how bad Northwest is, see this link:
http://www.airlinequality.com/StarRanking/3star.htm
The only major North American carrier to receive such 'distinction' of being compared to Third World airlines. It would be a waste of miles to fly on such carrier.
I am throughly familar with award booking on CO and DL partners, trust me. I have dealt with both in the past on the partners I mentionned above. And if we take a poll, I think the overwhelming majority of FTers are going to tell you it's much easier to obtain an award on DL than CO.