Mileage pooling?
Feb 16, 2005 | 5:56 pm
#1
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: PDX
Programs: Alaska Airlines, CO Emeritus, United kettle, Ural Airlines Wings, Hilton, National
Posts: 979
Mileage pooling?
This may be the dumb question of the day, but if you are going on a trip with someone via award travel and they are short say 50k miles, can the other person "assist" them? I mean if they are going on the same trip is their a way to "pool" miles? I had heard you could transfer miles, however I also heard that that is expensive..
Anyone have any advice?
Anyone have any advice?
Feb 16, 2005 | 7:01 pm
#2
Join Date: Dec 2001
Posts: 399
Wow...I have a similar question (and with searching disabled it seems reasonable to ask). My Dad, Mom and I have CO miles scattered across 3 accounts. Is there anyway to transfer all the points to one account?
Feb 16, 2005 | 7:30 pm
#3
Join Date: Aug 2002
Posts: 2,245
Originally Posted by Derrico
This may be the dumb question of the day, but if you are going on a trip with someone via award travel and they are short say 50k miles, can the other person "assist" them? I mean if they are going on the same trip is their a way to "pool" miles? I had heard you could transfer miles, however I also heard that that is expensive..
Anyone have any advice?
Anyone have any advice?
An award reservation must be ticketed entirelly from one's account. You can't use partial miles from one account and the remainder from another account. The transfer of mileage can be costly if you need transfer a signifcant amount vs. only a few thousand.
Originally Posted by The_Diamond_Z
Wow...I have a similar question (and with searching disabled it seems reasonable to ask). My Dad, Mom and I have CO miles scattered across 3 accounts. Is there anyway to transfer all the points to one account?
Feb 16, 2005 | 9:04 pm
#4
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Texas
Posts: 640
CO's mileage xfer program charges more for the transfer than the miles are worth. You might as well burn them on a won auction than attempt a transfer to someone else.
Feb 16, 2005 | 9:54 pm
#5
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: NYC
Posts: 8,689
Here's is last spring's mileage transfer "promo":
http://www.continental.com/onepass/n...0040310_01.asp
http://www.continental.com/onepass/n...0040310_01.asp