40k miles from Guam
Apr 10, 2015, 8:34 pm
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40k miles from Guam
Hello,
Please help. I have 40k AA miles based in Guam. How can I use them, trying to get two people off the island even if it means using United miles on the way back. Any suggestions is greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Please help. I have 40k AA miles based in Guam. How can I use them, trying to get two people off the island even if it means using United miles on the way back. Any suggestions is greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Apr 10, 2015, 9:33 pm
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Apr 11, 2015, 7:01 am
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To follow on to that, the only airline serving GUM upon which you can redeem your AA miles is JAL, and that would be on their flights to NRT. So wherever you go, it would have to involve GUM-NRT on JAL. Unfortunately that means that, no matter what you end up doing, you can't do an Asia 2 to Asia 2 award from GUM for 15,000 miles, since the award routing rules don't make an exception for Asia 2 to Asia 2 via Asia 1. I hope this makes sense. Good luck!
Sep 4, 2017, 6:55 am
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Both Guam and Australia are in South Pacific in the AA award chart.
However, because JAL is the only airline that flies there, how does the pricing work?
South Pacific to Asia 1 is 40k (ironically, given the title of the thread) in J but travel would actually be SP-A1-SP. So, 80k one way? Surely not.
However, because JAL is the only airline that flies there, how does the pricing work?
South Pacific to Asia 1 is 40k (ironically, given the title of the thread) in J but travel would actually be SP-A1-SP. So, 80k one way? Surely not.
Sep 4, 2017, 7:04 am
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Both Guam and Australia are in South Pacific in the AA award chart.
However, because JAL is the only airline that flies there, how does the pricing work?
South Pacific to Asia 1 is 40k (ironically, given the title of the thread) in J but travel would actually be SP-A1-SP. So, 80k one way? Surely not.
However, because JAL is the only airline that flies there, how does the pricing work?
South Pacific to Asia 1 is 40k (ironically, given the title of the thread) in J but travel would actually be SP-A1-SP. So, 80k one way? Surely not.
Guam has always been tough to get to using AA miles, unless you're flying to Japan or Korea it always requires 2 awards.
Sep 4, 2017, 5:40 pm
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I guess that could be an option. Singapore would probably be easier for me to start from. Something to think about.