*A Awards Between Asia/US via Europe
Aug 27, 2012, 5:47 pm
#1
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Programs: UA 1K
Posts: 268
*A Awards Between Asia/US via Europe
Hi FTers,
Needing to travel between Asia and US, I noticed that sometimes european routings like TPE-PVG-FRA-SFO via CA/LH/LH would show up on the awards from time to time, however, I've never booked them.
I want to ask whether it is possible to manually construct those awards? Perhaps a PVG/NRT-IST/ZUH/FRA-SFO routing to experience european carriers?
Thank you,
Needing to travel between Asia and US, I noticed that sometimes european routings like TPE-PVG-FRA-SFO via CA/LH/LH would show up on the awards from time to time, however, I've never booked them.
I want to ask whether it is possible to manually construct those awards? Perhaps a PVG/NRT-IST/ZUH/FRA-SFO routing to experience european carriers?
Thank you,
Aug 28, 2012, 2:18 am
#6
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Posts: 350
Aug 30, 2012, 8:43 am
#7
Join Date: Sep 1999
Location: too far from the airport
Posts: 3,298
How about Australia to US via Europe? Is that possible too? I tried building an itinerary using the multiple destinations feature, but I get an error message every time. The itin would be something like PER-YYZ via any of the European hubs.
Jan 30, 2013, 10:33 pm
#9
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: SFO, LAX
Programs: UA 1K, SPG G, #1 CG 5☆
Posts: 234
IMO it's more about regions and where your turnaround point is. They're not always spot on at determining turnaround point, so you could bounce around a bit within a region. I recently did a US-EU award with 8 legs, four of which were just bouncing around, i.e. not needed to get from A to B.