Booking ANA Award on UA Metal
Jan 7, 2015, 9:44 pm
#1
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Join Date: Oct 2013
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Booking ANA Award on UA Metal
I'm looking to book a flight for my family from IAH to LHR next summer. I've been looking around at various point redemption options and I can't help but to be perplexed at the lack of conversation surrounding the excellent point redemption opportunities with ANA when booking a partner award on UA metal.
For me a IAH-LHR flight under the new regional based award chart would cost 72K per person RT in BusinessFirst on a 787. Award availability for four BusinessFirst seats is also fairly easy to come by, so why don't more people take this option?
Amex Membership Rewards transfer to ANA and 288K seams fairly easy to grab.
So I guess my question is, what's the catch?
For me a IAH-LHR flight under the new regional based award chart would cost 72K per person RT in BusinessFirst on a 787. Award availability for four BusinessFirst seats is also fairly easy to come by, so why don't more people take this option?
Amex Membership Rewards transfer to ANA and 288K seams fairly easy to grab.
So I guess my question is, what's the catch?
Jan 7, 2015, 9:57 pm
#2
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: 1A
Programs: UA GS, NH Diamond, Hyatt Lifetime Globalist (formerly Courtesy Card sadly), Amanjunkie, CLEAR
Posts: 3,713
I'm looking to book a flight for my family from IAH to LHR next summer. I've been looking around at various point redemption options and I can't help but to be perplexed at the lack of conversation surrounding the excellent point redemption opportunities with ANA when booking a partner award on UA metal.
For me a IAH-LHR flight under the new regional based award chart would cost 72K per person RT in BusinessFirst on a 787. Award availability for four BusinessFirst seats is also fairly easy to come by, so why don't more people take this option?
Amex Membership Rewards transfer to ANA and 288K seams fairly easy to grab.
So I guess my question is, what's the catch?
For me a IAH-LHR flight under the new regional based award chart would cost 72K per person RT in BusinessFirst on a 787. Award availability for four BusinessFirst seats is also fairly easy to come by, so why don't more people take this option?
Amex Membership Rewards transfer to ANA and 288K seams fairly easy to grab.
So I guess my question is, what's the catch?