By signing up for the Emirates Skywards program, you can check availabiliy for EK award seats online. Now, OnePass and Skywards inventory do not match up 100% of the time for EK flights, but it's a safe bet that flights without inventory in Skywards will not be available for OnePass.

I had success recently at using CO miles for an Emirates award from VIE-BKK return. The process is as SeattleBH describes earlier, but I had pretty good luck just picking flights that showed good availability using the KVS tool. In every case, if Emirates did not immediately (within seconds) deny the reward, it wound up being confirmed at the 24 hour mark.

Sorry but I have no insight into the JFK-HAM routing.

What's the KVS tool?

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=319244

Basically, it is a fare availability tool that is widely used among the flyertalk community.

I believe Heathrow Guy posted in another thread that is it 80k miles for a EK ticket Europe to India/Africa in Business.

I found flights on emirates.com for award tickets, now I just need to check with continental.

I just wanted to see if anyone could confirm that it is 80k miles for Europe to Seychelles on Emirates?

Thanks much,

Timothy

BTW the flights that I found with availability in Business class are below. If anyone has a minute and could check if 2 seats are available on these flights in Business using continental miles I would really appreciate it. I am in the south of France without a landline at the moment.

Flights selected so far

Flight 1 of 3
EK076

08 Nov 07 9:05 pm departs Paris (CDG) Business
09 Nov 07 6:40 am arrives Dubai (DXB)
Non-stop

Connecting to

EK707
09 Nov 07 10:35 am departs Dubai (DXB) Business
09 Nov 07 3:05 pm arrives Seychelles (SEZ)
Non-stop



Flight 2 of 3
EK708

17 Nov 07 1:15 am departs Seychelles (SEZ) Business
17 Nov 07 5:45 am arrives Dubai (DXB)
Non-stop


Flight 3 of 3

From Dubai (DXB)
to Paris (CDG)




EK075 19 Nov 07 3:00 pm departs Dubai (DXB)
19 Nov 07 7:35 pm arrives Paris (CDG)
Non-stop

All,

I found a way to connect my phone to wifi and call VOIP

I requested the seats and now I am waiting.

Cheers

Timo

So after checking tons of dates; I found seats, but now I am told by Continental that it will not ticket because Continental does not have access to the Emirates Seychelles flight. It all seems very strange. She stated that when it tries to ticket it will just fail, because Emirates is not a valid partner to Seychelles.

Do any of the experts know any better on this subject?

Thanks for the help,

Cheers,

Timo

I went on to check Maldives as well and it is excluded by emirates for Continental miles redemption.

Cheers

Timo

Timo,

I'm guessing the agent confirmed this over the phone?

So, what Skyteam carriers are available for OnePass rewards to the Seychelles? AF/KL (if they even serve that destination)?

Darn it! I was thinking about redeeming miles to go to MLE next year! Grrr!

Yes, the agent confirmed that Maldives and Seychelles is excluded from using Continental miles and that there was no pricing in place for these destinations. Emirates will give space; but there is no pricing in place for Dubai to Maldives. It seems like Continental just needs to have their pricing department add Seychelles and Maldives as a 10D award from Europe and it would work perfectly, because Emirates is willing to give Continental award seats on the flights, just afterwards Continental cannot price the award. They tried pricing Dubai to Seychelles by itself and that didn't work either; but they could price Paris to Dubai.

Cheers

Timo

Sorry to stir up this old thread, but it seemed more relevant than starting a new one, and this way no one can flame me for not searching.

I was just playing around with the interactive award thing on co.com and I noticed that SEZ (Seychelles) is listed as being part of Asia when it comes to mileage redemption. I know I'm American, and therefore geography isn't my strong point, but I swear that giant land-mass next to SEZ is Africa.

What gives?

If you are so inclined you could book to CMB and buy the CMB-Male legs (cheap in any class). i think AF flies to Mahe as a code share - so doubt you could use that.

Geographic classifications for frequent flyer mile redemption purposes do not always mirror classifications for standard geopolitical purposes.