award travel on star alliance vs UA
Mar 5, 1999, 4:01 pm
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award travel on star alliance vs UA
Is there a different award chart for travel on carriers other than UA? For instance, you could get to Rome on SAS or on LH. To CPH on SAS, LH, UA connecting to SAS, UA connecting to LH, ... You get my point. Do I get to choose, or does UA choose for me?
Mar 5, 1999, 5:15 pm
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You choose every detail (and you pay the consequences with miles ...).
Mar 5, 1999, 5:50 pm
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You get to pick one airline (I do not think that you can mix and match). There is an award chart for UA, and different award charts for other airlines. For example business class US to India: 100K on United (soon to be discontinued), 100K on Air Canada (but they black out four months of the year), 185K on Lufthansa, more than 200K on some other partners. United is not competitive here (at least compared with AA), despite the Star Alliance.
Mar 5, 1999, 7:33 pm
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pgupta, bigger problem with trying to book award travel to India on Air Canada - they don't operate flights from June-Sept. Then they black out Dec and Apr for reward travel - leaves you a pretty narrow list of possible dates. United is discontinuing flying to India. Flying to India on LH or SAS in Business takes way more miles.
Mar 5, 1999, 7:47 pm
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Another reason to be Super Elite on Air Canada -- no blackouts. Plus to Delhi they have a reward sale only 80000 miles for Exec First; 50000 miles for Economy Oct 1-Oct 31 for Super Elite members.
Mar 5, 1999, 10:42 pm
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Maybe I should move all my United miles to BA via Diners Club. With BA, there are no blackout dates from US to India for business class, and it costs 100K miles.
Mar 5, 1999, 11:08 pm
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Blonde, I have access to the reward sale as well in October (plain Elite). However I envy the "no blackout" provision of Super Elite. Stupidly, AC actually hits you with two separate sets of blackout dates - one set from Canada/US to London and a second set from London to India. Since the only AC flight to India is from London - and hence you need to connect there - you need to comply with both sets to actually make the trip.
Mar 6, 1999, 1:44 pm
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Why have I never seen these "phantom" award charts? In the timetable it sounds like "all partner travel is Saver except for Aeromar" or some such wording. I understand differences in routing (Asia via Europe more expensive than via the Pacific), but I'm all for full disclosure.
Mar 6, 1999, 2:16 pm
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the "phantom" award tables of UA's partner airlines.
You can download it from UA's homepage (it is in the american mileage-plus guide). You need acrobat 3 to read it - and it is not updated since summer/fall 1997 - but the basic rules and mileages are (more or less) still the same.
You can download it from UA's homepage (it is in the american mileage-plus guide). You need acrobat 3 to read it - and it is not updated since summer/fall 1997 - but the basic rules and mileages are (more or less) still the same.
Mar 13, 1999, 4:37 pm
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I am almost positive that UA did away with all blackout dates for travel in international F and C class. I can't remember if it's for domestic travel too.
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Mar 13, 1999, 11:43 pm
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no blackout dates for 1K at all - BUT capacity controls exist.