malmostoso

The longer connections might not allow you to book the whole award because of married segments logic (or illogic).

I'd just call in with the exact flight numbers you want to book and just feed them to the agent. Also helpful is to prepare the NATO spelling of airports and names of the travellers on a piece of paper so that there's no confusion.

Brostman

LH M&M Program
Planning a bucket list trip for Spring 2021, and it looks like my best option for a F trip on the return (balancing total flight duration with airline options) is LH's PEK-FRA-ORD for a PEK-xxx-xxx-ORD return in F (limiting my choices to 2 stops at most). However my miles are concentrated in UA MP and Chase SR, and Chase does not partner with LH. Any recommendations for best partners for accumulating M&M points. Or does anyone have any ideas for executing a multi-airline transfer that would eventually give me M&M points... I currently have approximately 400K in both UA and Chase SR.... I expect to also have up to the same in AMEX by early 2020... which is my cutoff in order to lock in my desired flights for the 2021 trip. My trip is outbound ORD -- xxx's-DPS and PEK--xxx's-ORD return.

cas_de

Crossposting is not a good idea.

Others might prove me wrong, but since there's this lawsuit between a M&M customer and LH pending here in Germany, LH has disabled the remaining options to transfer miles to M&M (such as Marriott) to avoid setting a reference case for the "value" of a mile. Unless you can work with DKB, Payback (you can transfer AMEX -> Payback -> M&M) and loads of newspaper subscriptions I think your plan will most likely not fly. Sorry.

Mister P.

Thanks. Does that mean there needs to be award space on TG in order for the upgrade to clear? I thought the upgrade would book into a different fare class (no award availability on the itinerary I am looking at / nor any discounted business class paid fares either). Thanks

malmostoso

Upgrades book into "I" just like straight up redemptions, but there's no guarantee that "I" availability has implications on upgrade availability.

The best you can do, if you want to go down that route, is to book, call and ask for an upgrade, and if it fails cancel within 24h to get a full refund. You might end up tying up a lot of money in your credit card if you have to do it a couple of times.

krazykanuck

How many hours in advance of flights does the LH counter at Newark Airport open? Or is it generally open all afternoon after a certain point? I'm flying on the 6pm departure to FRA next week and trying to figure out how early I can arrive to check my bag and go over to the Polaris Lounge. The LH web page for Newark doesn't specify "counter opens X hours in advance" or anything.

Brostman

Cas_de..... thank you for the insight. I am not a heavy Int'l flyer and just wanted to benefit from the extensive knowledge of many people like yourself to see if there was some strategy not otherwise obvious to me. As I mentioned, it is a bucket list trip and so I am looking to optimize all elements of the trip. And since I will be flying the equivalent of around the world, and since my goal is to do as much in F, I would like to utilize as much as possible with points to get the best value, but also keep my travel time to a reasonable level. Thanks again

oliver2002

The LH checkin opens roughly 3h before departure of the first flight of the day and stays open for the rest of the day till the evening flight leaves. They will accept luggage for any flight.

Mister P.

Ok, thanks. The funny thing is that Thai's fully flex economy tickets (Y/B) are actually not "fully refundable" and they charge a $100 cancellation fee. Itinerary does not touch US soil so the 24h cancellation policy does not seem to be available on TG's site. I have also searched in several OTAs but when you try to search for "refundable tickets" they are in a different fare class (not Y/B). Any suggestions for an OTA that has the 24h free cancellation, and would allow me to book into Y or B? Thanks

speed.skater

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Nick Art

twodollarjoe

I am 859 miles short for my desired award booking (MCI-KRK) in premium economy. I would like to fly in the next couple weeks and there are plenty of available dates. I have tried several times in the last 2 weeks to have my brother utilize M&M new miles transfer option(10 Euros per 1,000 miles). Each attempt has met with an "unexpected error" message. The fee associated with the transfer does process though, showing up on his credit card for each failed attempt(6x). He tried again a few days ago hoping that the issued had been resolved, but met with the same outcome. I have called and emailed customer service, but have not received a response. The mile transfer company is Loylogic, they require an order number to file an inquiry, but due to the "unexpected error" message an order number is not available. Any thoughts on how to get the additional miles quickly since hotel point conversions are not available anymore. Thanks for any insight, my 1st post.

oliver2002

There are a few P offers ex France which you can use if you take the bus from XER. (Note that you have to take the bus from XER, the driver hands a list of pax to someone in FRA). NYC is 1800€, India 1500, HKG or SIN only 1900€.

Google flights helps you to visualize this (sadly it doesn't recognize XER, so I used SXB and CDG for this example): https://www.google.com/flights/#flt=...1314648438;t:e

kvota

malmostoso

Yes. Make sure you have received an automated response with a case number. If you haven't heard back in 6 weeks you can write again to ask for feedback.