New to using CO miles-please help
Oct 7, 2005 | 10:53 am
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New to using CO miles-please help
We have 200,000 miles transferred into our onepass account for attempting to get 2 business class tickets from SEA-BRU leaving August 29, 2006 and home September 16, 2006. I understand that the farthest that I can book right now id to Spet. 2nd. In using "made up" dates of Aug29-Sept2 I can not get CO.com to serve me up the business class avaliablity. What am I doing wrong? (I understand it could just be my stupidity) Any advise would be really really welcome.
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Oct 7, 2005 | 11:08 am
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call onepass? sometimes the website can be funny when trying to book that far out.
Oct 7, 2005 | 11:11 am
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Originally Posted by venice4504
What am I doing wrong?
Oct 7, 2005 | 11:33 am
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Originally Posted by UpgradeMe
Assuming that CO will have any standard BF availability 11 months out?
Oct 7, 2005 | 11:34 am
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1. You need to call ASAP. You're already past the initial booking day for your outbound. You could have called two weeks earlier to secure your outbound first.
2. I don't know where you're transferring your miles from, but in general, it's a bad idea to transfer before you book. Should have reserved your seats first, and then transfer. Otherwise, you may now have 200K miles that you can't use in your account.
3. Like others say, there may simply be no BF seats loaded for the flights you want to start with.
2. I don't know where you're transferring your miles from, but in general, it's a bad idea to transfer before you book. Should have reserved your seats first, and then transfer. Otherwise, you may now have 200K miles that you can't use in your account.
3. Like others say, there may simply be no BF seats loaded for the flights you want to start with.
Oct 7, 2005 | 11:41 am
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Originally Posted by rkkwan
1. You need to call ASAP. You're already past the initial booking day for your outbound. You could have called two weeks earlier to secure your outbound first.
3. Like others say, there may simply be no BF seats loaded for the flights you want to start with.
3. Like others say, there may simply be no BF seats loaded for the flights you want to start with.
Unlike many other airlines, CO does not automatically release inventory at 330 days out. Rather, they wait a while, see how seats are selling, and then later release the seats for miles. You may end up waiting a while to see if the seats ever open up. If you call CO you can also have them look for partner seats, but CO across the pond is generally considered more enjoyable.
Of course, you could probably do something like SEA-KL-AMS/AMS-KL-BRU and do a REALLY long haul rather than breaking it up in EWR. You would have to call and book that via the partner desk.
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Oct 7, 2005 | 11:56 am
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Originally Posted by venice4504
Not to be rude/dense but what's that supposed to mean?