Newbie - Which airline to fly to London
Oct 31, 2011, 9:45 am
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Newbie - Which airline to fly to London
My wife and I are planning to go to London England next April to visit our son who is studying there. I have 130000 Starwood points and 50000 Alaska points. I am thinking of transferring 80000 (65000 + 15000 bonus) Starwood points to American Airlines to get the least expensive travel for points. I am flying out of YLW which only has 3 airlines; Westjet, Air Canada, and Horizon / Alaska.
I have two questions:
1. If I transfer my points to AA will they allow me to fly out of YLW on points or do I need to fly with AC or Alaska?
2. Is there another option I should be considering? What would you do?
I have two questions:
1. If I transfer my points to AA will they allow me to fly out of YLW on points or do I need to fly with AC or Alaska?
2. Is there another option I should be considering? What would you do?
Oct 31, 2011, 10:18 am
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Looking at the Alaska mileage chart, it looks like you could book travel on AA for 40K per ticket, so you'd only need to get your Mileage Plan account up to 80K (transfer 25K + 5K bonus). You'd have to check to see if Alaska's awards allow mixed-carrier travel (Alaska to a gateway followed by AA to Europe).