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Has anyone been able to use OnePass miles to book into Emirates First Class? I am in the process of booking a round the world reward ticket and would like to use them to/from Dubai as part of my trip.
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Originally Posted by dmbfan222
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Has anyone been able to use OnePass miles to book into Emirates First Class? I am in the process of booking a round the world reward ticket and would like to use them to/from Dubai as part of my trip.
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Originally Posted by CO 1E
(Post 8278028)
It is not possible to use CO miles for EK F rewards, unfortunately. It used to be possible to redeem DL miles for EK F, but I am not sure if that remains true.
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Originally Posted by dmbfan222
(Post 8278053)
Yikes, I was afraid that was the answer. That is too bad. Thanks.
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Originally Posted by CO 1E
(Post 8278086)
Why not just book EK J with CO miles? It is better than the US carriers' international business classes.
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Originally Posted by CO 1E
(Post 8278028)
It is not possible to use CO miles for EK F rewards, unfortunately. It used to be possible to redeem DL miles for EK F, but I am not sure if that remains true.
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Originally Posted by pbarnette
(Post 8279417)
More importantly, I don't think it is possible to book into international F on ANY carrier with a RTW ticket. No matter what the award chart may suggest. Indeed, I would find out what pushes one into the 280k bucket and try to work around it if possible.
From what I understand, you have to book into the 280k bucket to get CO BF, so as long as I have CO on one of my international segments, it looks like I'll be using the 280 bucket anyway... |
Then what is the 280k bucket for?
I have long had a hard time understanding this. I would like to ask CO Insider to clairfy as my fiancee and I are also considering a RTW trip.
Continental offers three buckets in the RTW Series 17 Reward: The RTW 140k bucket is for "Economy Class" The RTW 220k bucket is for "Business Class" The RTW 280k bucket for "First Class/Business First" I and many of you agree that CO BF is the best Skyteam Business Class product. But CO BF is not "First Class" just as AF Biz is not "First Class" or VS Upper Class is not "First Class". And especially: why be charged the miles of the First Class bucket to use our own airline's business class? Even more confusing -- what airline partner offers Continental bookable international "First Class" to be redeemed at the 280k bucket? Postings I find on FT say no airline allows CO OnePass miles to be redeemed into the First Class cabin for Series 17 rewards. The only thing I can make out of this is that the 220k bucket is for domestic economy / international non-CO business class flights, while the 280k bucket is for domestic first class / international CO and partner business class flights. If this is true, then I'd like to know why we can't book first class rewards, especially if Delta Medallions can. |
Originally Posted by seattleBH
(Post 7438014)
I have had sucess using EK (though I have not tried Europe - only JNB). From what I have been told, the process is quite slow.
Step 1 - CO requests seats from EK. Step 2 - EK confirms seats (this can happen in seconds or hours - up to 24 hours) Step 3 - CO confrims booking Step 4 - wait 24 hours Step 5 - CO can ticket I STRONGLY suggest that you only attempt this with the SLC call center. Both IAH and TPA seem unwilling or unable to handle this much work. As for AF, "O" is the correct bucket and there are often (in my experience) seats available. Good luck. I had one agent from SLC, who was helpful, but the Houston agents seemed much more willing to do thorough, long, sometimes weird searches to secure me seats. Ultimately I did join EK Skywards to check their availability and was able to change days on my reward out of DXB. |
EK miles on CO
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