Star Alliance Award Question
Sep 9, 2005, 10:39 pm
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Star Alliance Award Question
I am checking award travel to New Zealand. On United's website the star alliance award chart shows 120,000 miles are needed for a first class ticket however on US's website the star alliance chart says 150,000 miles are needed for the same ticket. Whats up with that. I figured there would be a set amount of miles for a star alliance award. Are these charts correct?
Sep 10, 2005, 8:04 am
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Originally Posted by uva185
I am checking award travel to New Zealand. On United's website the star alliance award chart shows 120,000 miles are needed for a first class ticket however on US's website the star alliance chart says 150,000 miles are needed for the same ticket. Whats up with that. I figured there would be a set amount of miles for a star alliance award. Are these charts correct?
Sep 10, 2005, 4:24 pm
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Different carriers have different redemption rates, even within the Star Alliance.
Begging to differ with fly747first-- on UA, the 120,000 mile first class ticket to Australia or New Zealand is available on UA or NZ metal. Same for the 90,000 business class ticket. My wife and I flew ORD-SFO-AKL / CHC-LAX-ORD in business class for 90K UA miles each. It was a great deal, and a great trip.
Every airline has its quirk within the *A. Australia/NZ happens to be the quirk in the UA scheme.
Begging to differ with fly747first-- on UA, the 120,000 mile first class ticket to Australia or New Zealand is available on UA or NZ metal. Same for the 90,000 business class ticket. My wife and I flew ORD-SFO-AKL / CHC-LAX-ORD in business class for 90K UA miles each. It was a great deal, and a great trip.
Every airline has its quirk within the *A. Australia/NZ happens to be the quirk in the UA scheme.