Originally Posted by philemer
I've done most of my award travel on UA and think it is a great program. We've ALWAYS been able to get the exact days that we want to travel. Not always the exact flt. but at least the exact day. We start 330 days in advance and 'waitlist' if our preferred flt. is not immediately available. So, how do would y'all rate the AS program?
I've been searching the last couple days for SAVER award flts from BOI>PVR and BOI>NYC area for 2007. Very disappointing. The BOI>PVR flts., for 30K miles, usually require an overnight stay somewhere. The BOI>NYC area flts. often require an extra 5K miles and a leg on a Partner.
Strange. For several years, I made the same trip, on the same weekend. The one time I used an AS 20,000 mile award, there were plenty of choices of flights shown on AS' web site.
When I tried to use a UA 25,000 mile award, I never was able to find one on UA's web site. I eventually had to call UA to get an award itinerary, but one leg required a connection (for what is normally a non-stop flight) and a segment with a partner airline. I did not have any elite status on either airline.
So for my flight patterns, AS is much easier to redeem an award on than UA is.