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Old Aug 2, 2017, 10:06 pm
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A little bit of misleading info on MileagePlan?
So in the current inflight magazine it has an article about award travel with tips. The following are two that seem a bit misleading:

"Package into a single booking your connecting flights on Alaska or Virgin America with your international-flight award"

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"Memebers have the option to mix and match partner airlines, take a different airline for each leg of the trip."

Thoughts? Maybe changes coming???
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Old Aug 2, 2017, 10:35 pm
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Leg=direction not segment.

Once VX is AS, the other component comes true. So that statement is a bit premature.
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Old Aug 2, 2017, 11:10 pm
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"Package into a single booking your connecting flights on Alaska or Virgin America with your international-flight award"

I think this is reasonably accurate: you get a Alaska / Virgin connector to your Cathay, or BA, or Fiji, or Emirates flight. . .
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Old Aug 2, 2017, 11:22 pm
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Originally Posted by worldtraveller73
"Package into a single booking your connecting flights on Alaska or Virgin America with your international-flight award"

I think this is reasonably accurate: you get a Alaska / Virgin connector to your Cathay, or BA, or Fiji, or Emirates flight. . .
VX is still treated as a partner for award purposes, so you actually can't at the moment.
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Old Aug 2, 2017, 11:29 pm
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Originally Posted by worldtraveller73
"Package into a single booking your connecting flights on Alaska or Virgin America with your international-flight award"

I think this is reasonably accurate: you get a Alaska / Virgin connector to your Cathay, or BA, or Fiji, or Emirates flight. . .

Originally Posted by jinglish
VX is still treated as a partner for award purposes, so you actually can't at the moment.
XXX-LAX/SFO on VX and SFO/LAX-Mexico/Costa Rica on AS?

(Alternately, LAX/SFO-SEA on VX and SEA-YVR/YYC/YEG on AS. )
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Old Aug 3, 2017, 7:13 am
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Probably just jumped the gun, or the possibility is coming sooner than later
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Old Aug 3, 2017, 11:42 am
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Originally Posted by eponymous_coward
XXX-LAX/SFO on VX and SFO/LAX-Mexico/Costa Rica on AS?

(Alternately, LAX/SFO-SEA on VX and SEA-YVR/YYC/YEG on AS. )
It's AS + 1 partner. So in your examples, VX is the 1 partner you're allowed.

BZE-AA-LAX-AS-SJC is allowed
BZE-AA-LAX-VX-SFO is not allowed

SEA-AS-SFO-AA-MIA is allowed
SEA-VX-SFO-AA-MIA is not allowed
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Old Aug 3, 2017, 5:02 pm
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Originally Posted by channa
It's AS + 1 partner. So in your examples, VX is the 1 partner you're allowed.
Right.

So "Package into a single booking your connecting flights on Alaska or Virgin America with your international-flight award" isn't inaccurate given that both VX (CUN) and AS (Canada, Mexico, Costa Rica, Cuba) have international flights you can package into an award with a combination of AS/VX flights... you just can't package Virgin America with an Alaska partner yet.
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Old Aug 3, 2017, 9:36 pm
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Originally Posted by jinglish
VX is still treated as a partner for award purposes, so you actually can't at the moment.
Fair point.

Interesting to note that for the Companion 2 for 1's they seem to allow AS - VX - AS to ticket. At least they are displaying on the availability screens for flights; I haven't attempted to ticket one yet.
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Old Aug 4, 2017, 12:22 am
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Originally Posted by worldtraveller73
Fair point.

Interesting to note that for the Companion 2 for 1's they seem to allow AS - VX - AS to ticket. At least they are displaying on the availability screens for flights; I haven't attempted to ticket one yet.
It will ticket.

This part has been integrated well.
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Old Aug 4, 2017, 7:53 am
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Originally Posted by worldtraveller73
Fair point.

Interesting to note that for the Companion 2 for 1's they seem to allow AS - VX - AS to ticket. At least they are displaying on the availability screens for flights; I haven't attempted to ticket one yet.
Yeah most discount certs work on VX. What's odd is that wallet funds cannot be used on VX.
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Old Aug 5, 2017, 1:15 pm
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Originally Posted by channa
Yeah most discount certs work on VX. What's odd is that wallet funds cannot be used on VX.
This seems to have changed recently. I was given the option to use AS wallet funds for a VX flight recently...
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Old Aug 6, 2017, 1:16 pm
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Originally Posted by Tracer_SEA
This seems to have changed recently. I was given the option to use AS wallet funds for a VX flight recently...
That's great to hear. That was not the case as of about 10 days ago.

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