DL may or may not be amenable to changing the FF number (particularly to an AA one, not even sure they would support entering that). In any case, you can check in online at exactly T-24. At that point you will be asked to reconfirm your mileage earning option and can put in your AA FF number. All unoccupied seats will be available to select from at that point anyway regardless of your mileage earning affiliation.

Yeah, I'm actually not too worried about the pricing of the flights. They seem relatively low at the moment. It's more the scheduling.

We fly this route whenever we go to Disney World in January. For the past 2 years, they had the SEA-MCO red-eye running every night. Our vacation is booked so that we were planning on arriving Friday morning. We figured we'd plan on taking the same red-eye we've always taken on Thursday night. Problem is, that red-eye isn't running nightly in January, but only Friday and Saturday night.

I was hoping they would run this flight throughout the week, but it's looking like that's a no-go at this point. I asked their twitter rep about it last night and they said they made their winter changes 2 weeks ago, so it's pretty unlikely that they'll expand that red-eye to more nights. :td:

It's not the end of the world for us, but it does throw a wrench in our plans. We may have to take Thursday off to catch the 9am nonstop flight, or we can think about taking the SEA-SAN-MCO red-eye, which I'd prefer not to do as that involves way more flying.

We'll have to hold off on booking until the 19th, as that's when I should get my companion fare again. Hopefully there are seats left on the Thursday 9am flight in 2 weeks; it's already almost booked completely in non-Flex/Elite Status seating.

I have about $40 in my alaska wallet (due to previous flight price reductions).
These will expire in about 2 months.

All my travel for next 4-5 months is already booked, so I don't envision buying alaska flights anytime before the expiry date.

What are my options to not have my wallet funds expire? Can I buy a refundable ticket and cancel it or something?

Shh. ;)

Yeah, I *know* DL wouldn't. :) But could AS? Now I have an AS confirmation number: could I call them and have them wipe out my DL number in their system and insert an AA one?

Seems like a simple question but I've never really thought about it because AS is one of those rare birds that partners across the alliances. At the end of the day, who awards frequent flier miles? The ticketing airline (DL ticket, DL flight number) or the operating airline (AS metal)?

He who issues the ticket, controls the ticket. I don't expect you'll be able to call up AS and get them to change a DL-issued ticket. But instead of asking here, why not just call AS and ask them yourself? Not sure why you're so reluctant to call AS.

I'm flying on an award ticket in first class later this week. I'm going from DEN-SEA-HNL-SEA-DEN.

I know I will get lounge access at the Board Room in SEA, but do I get lounge access at partner lounges in DEN and HNL?

Thank you in advance for your help!

Nope - needs to be an AS operated Boardroom. SEA is nice and you might get soup. Haven't been to the new AAdmirals club (well not brand new now) but one of three IIRC Boardroom members have access to. Same with HNL- BR members gain access to the DL Skyclub. (which is ok since it has self-serve beverages). But HNL has lots of other options including Kona Brewing Company and the central garden area where you can look at the gardens and Koi.

Remember to save a bit of time for Agriculture Inspection too...

using companion cert.
 

Can I use the $99 companion certificate if I book the first fare using the "use miles for up to 50% off" option?

TIA

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No

Its one discount or the other.

Mywallet funds can be applied but that's it. Everything else is basically limited to one discount.

Belated thanks for the tips, and the heads up re (in)eligibility of KLM fare classes!
In a nutshell:
--the WS segment has KL flight #, so not eligible for WS/AA miles, and questionable if KL would credit;
--YVR-AMS is fare code N, so earns nothing, on AS/DL/KL;
--AMS-IST is fare code L, so will earn 100% actual miles flown.

I will use our AS #s and since the ticket was half price, will not whine about the limited number of miles this is going to haul in.

For the YVR-AMS sector, you can earn miles with DL.

http://skymilesoffers.delta.com/airline_partners.php#KL

Granted it is SkyPesos, but at least it is better to earn miles than to let it go to waste :)

Thanks! When will I learn to read more carefully?
So, because I much prefer AS miles, is it best to leave our mileage preference blank on our reservation, then send the YVR-AMS boarding passes to DL and AMS-IST ones to AS, after all our flights are completed?

You could do just that. IME, KL flights did not post to my AS account and when I asked KL agents to add my AS FF # they kept saying AS is not in SkyTeam so they do not partner with KLM. This was in AMS and the supervisor agreed with his front line employees, and the manual from HQ that the employee took out to find AS did not have AS in it.

If I were you, just leave it blank, retain the original confirmation e-mail and all KL boarding passes then send it to AS and DL after your trip to request credit.

Checking in at klm.com did yield a field for me to add my AS MP # (but this is only for the europe-usa segments) as DL controls OLCI ex-USA. And I *think* that might have posted automatically but can't recall...