What's the itinerary of the award ticket? Is it available to be booked online? I'm just wondering, because I won't sign up for nwa.com club for the reason that I can't book an award ticket online. If I'm going to spend the miles to get an award ticket, I think leaving from my closest airport(EUG) would be the best value for my miles. Which isn't possible due to the fact that NW does not fly into EUG, only using AS as a codeshare. And any award tickets with AS as part of the itinerary cannot be booked online. My closest city(PDX) that will work for nwa.com award booking is over 3 hours away. If you were to look for availability for HNL (which I know you aren't), SEA is the closest city that would be available online, due to the PDX-SEA segment which is a Horizon codeshare. Perhaps this is non pertaining info, but I thought it would be a bummer if it turned out you couldn't even use the 2500 miles discount. My geography knowledge of Georgia is zilch.

Before you sign up with nwa.com club, be sure you can use the certificates and other goodies. Good Luck!

Linda