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Can you have a single PNR where one passenger is a cash/revenue ticket and the other passenger is an award ticket?
No -- all passengers on a PNR must be of the same type ( cash or award) -- they must be the same fare class, same cabin, same routing, ....this is standard for all airlines. The airline industry-wide global distribution system (GDS) imposes this "commonality" restriction.

Can you have a single PNR where one direction is a cash/revenue ticket and the other direction is an award ticket?
No, while probably not a GDS limitation, most airlines do not allow this as the ticket rules for cash tickets and award tickets are very different.

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Is it possible to book award and revenue (cash) tickets on the same PNR? No.

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Mar 27, 2024, 12:15 pm

#256

profiled

Join Date: Mar 2024

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I'm looking to book some flights for our family to KOA from DEN later this year, I have enough miles to purchase 3 of the tickets, and would need to purchase the final ticket.

I am a lowly premier silver member;

What is the optimal way to do this, should I travel on the award ticket or the purchased ticket? If I travel on the purchased ticket and the family on the reward tickets, do we get the same baggage perks?

I also can't figure out a way to book them all online with 1 transaction, is it worth calling, or just booking in 2 separate transactions?

Mar 27, 2024, 12:42 pm

#257

oskidunker

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You will have to call to get all the people on one reservation. I would make the reservations on line and then call or they will charge you. You will have have two transactions.

Mar 27, 2024, 1:05 pm

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Originally Posted by profiled

It is not possible to mix award tickets and cash ticket together on the same reservation / PNR. It will need to be two separate reservations
You can share some of your benefits Premier benefits for companions on separate tickets, " off-pnr " [Consolidated] But check bag fee is not one and as a Silver it is only one additional companion

A long shot worth pricing out is What is the "Book with Money and Miles" option ?
The miles are only valued at $0.01 per mile but it is possible to book all four on one ticket/PNR and use both miles and cash. You can use as many or as little miles as you care.