elonepb

It IS my outbound flight.

rupert_s

elonepb

If you read the FAQ, the "dull yellow" apparently is dull for some kind of "return route" reasoning. All I'm saying is that my outbound is dull.

mjgtraveler

it must have been good while it lasted. you can no longer just create an ANA ID and log in, now you need to have ANA mileage balance. from their web site:
* The Partner Flight Award search function is not available for passengers who do not have any mileage balance. -

caz312

big thread here http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/bmi-d...er-search.html

bv94602

I managed to join ANA Mileage Club, and I can log-in. But on the page with the "three main options" it is impossible to select "Use Star Alliance Member Airlines" because the link/button is grayed out. How to proceed?

GoldCircle

There has been a recent change.

Do a search for an ANA flight first - say ICN-NRT. On the resulting page, you'll be able to click the Star Alliance search button - just retype the codes you want to use, replacing ICN and NRT.

And welcome to FT, bv94602. ^

redshift27

Nobody has mentioned it yet so perhaps you don't know about it: check out Award Nexus. See the thread here, give it a try, then redefine "masterclass".

cure

Unless I am doing something wrong, I believe that they have closed this loophole.

botham

It worked for me recently, eventually, but I suppose like most things it's difficult and confusing to start with. I think I did a search for a Tokyo to Singapore flight on ANA and when the results appeared, I did a search from IAH to LHR. Alas I was outside the 330 day cut off, but that's another story!

caz312

still working for me this morning

Raffles

It has always worked.

The new one is that ANA no longer lets you check seats within 7 days of departure.

Oxon Flyer

And as always, we have a simple workaround.

If you try a date within 7 days, you now get

The itinerary you entered is not valid. The booking period for the Star Alliance Award Ticket is between 330 days to 7 days prior to the date of departure.

and all the Outbound flights display " - "

However, it still shows availability for the return, even if it is within 7 days.

So, just reverse your route, set the outbound to today or tomorrow, and you can the see availability for the next 7 days.

Example, I'm looking for LHR-LAX on Tuesday (it's Sunday now, if you're not reading this today). Ask for LAX-LHR, outbound tomorrow, return Tuesday, and availability is displayed (F and C and Y on UA935, nowt on NZ, as it happens). You can then forward through all the days of next week too.

pteron

Loophole worked for me, now booked on an AC flight to YYZ next year.

Thanks for the guide.

SPGM

Absolutely NO words to explain how helpful is this forum and specifically this thread to FF with no experience in serious FFP activity.

I just heard about ANA right here, just used it successfully [thanks to the step by step guide provided]

I will be using it almost daily, since I have a lot of flights to do soon.

But one doubt arises regarding miles needed to certain award tickets:

In my FFP [Spanair] only 30.000 miles are needed to get a First Class ticket from Europe to North America, and getting that amount of miles is more or less easy spending just around 25.000 US$ in AMEX SpanairPlus Card. AFAIK, a London to LAX ticket, First Class, is around 5.000 US$

Sounds too good to be true!

Any opinions? Thankx to all!