Originally Posted by
pgary
I wish someone would do a study on partner awards for international travel. For example, I would much prefer to use my Northwest or Delta miles to fly nonstop from San Francisco to Paris (and then beyond) than to fly on the metal of either of these U.S. airlines. I am now collecting miles on U.S. Air for the first time. I would never actually fly on U.S. Air metal, but would love to know how easy it is to get a Star Alliance ticket from them to, say, Bankok or Tokyo or Hong Kong, or somewhere in Europe.
hmmm, good idea. Maybe write the author and ask them to do it--or better yet, offer yourself up as the guinea pig willing to do the flying! (using their miles of course, and maybe getting some of your own when something goes wrong and they need to get you back to home base. One could do this experiment with WSJ if only for the sake of travel and research! Could be cool if you write for IgoIgo even!)
My question is: why must we use the word,
"Metal?" is it to like...be "cool" and look really savvy as a FTer?
I can tell you that I have had success in using UA miles to fly UA
PLANES (that's what they are) to Europe, and have used US miles to fly on UA as well.
MM
(sorry Gary, I just had to.
The term didn't seem to come out naturally from ya...)
PS: I have scanned in the actual WJS printed article on this subject as a PDF onto my personal PC's desktop...