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Update 08APR2014: Star Alliance Awards must have been booked by March 30, 2014. They are no longer available through US. This thread is mostly useful for historic purposes, and discussing issues such as schedule changes/route changes that affect FTers existing *A awards booked before 3/31/2014.

Discussion on using US miles to book oneworld awards is available here.

If you are looking for discussion on US's new partner awards that use various partners not in oneworld (many of whom are former *A partners), see the devoted thread on using US miles to book NON-oneworld partners here.

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Jun 3, 2010, 8:02 am

#2251

travelkid

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By a glitch Ive been given a stopover I was not supposed to.

Do you think I could change that (or even an "invalid" routing) back to something valid without the change fee?

As it seems that would suit me better now.

Jun 3, 2010, 8:10 am

#2252

pogonation

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Quote:

Originally Posted by travelkid

Then you as well do TK F with the same suite. Better availability, especially for more pax + IST is a more interesting stopover.

Im travelling from OSL my self to ICN in june and to NRT in july. Same dates?
If so your on the guestlist at my birthdayparty at HR Tokyo july 9. I requested a suite good for partying;-)

Anyone else, just PM

TK F has poor service from all my experiences with them. You are also entering yourself into a massive aircraft lottery where there is a high probability you will end up in a crappy business seat on an A340 on the day of travel. Also it means a nice long flight in intra-europe business

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I have flown TK F 4 times now and I would much rather take any *A alternative in F with the exception of US airlines.

Jun 3, 2010, 8:15 am

#2253

pogonation

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Quote:

Originally Posted by travelkid

If you were given a stopover which you didn't ask for then you can ask them to remove it without charging the change fee.
If you were given an extra stopover which you asked for but meant the number of stopovers on the itinerary exceeded the allowed number then you may be able to get it changed without paying the fee.
With either of these 2 scenarios you will not be able to re-route or change carriers (although possibly if you manage to remove the stopover and your onward flight for the new date has no availability).

If you have had an invalid routing ticketed then as far as they will be concerned it won't be ''invalid'' as it was ticketed. If you want to make changes to it then they will most likely charge you the fee.

Hope that helps ^

Jun 3, 2010, 8:36 am

#2254

moebod

Join Date: Jan 2009

Posts: 476

I wanted to book the following ticket

Zrh-LHR(stop)-Dus-CDG(dest)-zrh

An agent came back, that it will not be possible because of the following rule

2.Stopovers are not permitted when travel is within one award region or for multi-city travel.

Is this rule always enforced? or will most agents not know about it and i can get this ticketed?

Thanks

Jun 3, 2010, 8:45 am

#2255

gleff

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There are many things that get ticketed outside of the US Airways rules. That's because routing validation isn't done automatically. There aren't THAT many rules, compared to some programs. And the ones that DO exist aren't always clearly spelled out or communicated well to agents.

You can always keep trying call center hang up/call back to see if someone will ticket an itinerary, but understand the more clearly than before even things like 2 stopovers aren't actually permitted. You might slip something like an extra stopover, or a stopover within a single geographic region, by an agent. But it's not yours by right...

Jun 3, 2010, 8:48 am

#2256

pogonation

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Quote:

Originally Posted by moebod

From my experience they usually enforce this rule. Most agents seem to know about it. Although personally I would have thought you would have had more problems with the massive backtracking issue on your proposed routing.

Jun 3, 2010, 11:12 am

#2257

rsqx2

Join Date: Jun 2010

Posts: 20

Quote:

Originally Posted by moebod

Does that mean 2 stopovers are ok if you are stopping in Europe and Asia?

Jun 3, 2010, 12:32 pm

#2258

stefg1007

Join Date: Jul 2006

Location: Philadelphia, PA

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As of June 1st, youre only allowed one stopover per iten. But yes, if you book an award ticket to Asia, you are allowed one stopover. Not sure if theyll let you have that stopover in your originating award region.

Jun 3, 2010, 12:35 pm

#2259

stefg1007

Join Date: Jul 2006

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On my recent award tix, i was told 8 segments total are allowed per iten.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tiki

How many segments can you have to reach a destination? I may need up to 5 for BNE-MEX in C.

BNE-BKK or SIN
BKK or SIN-ICN
ICN-LAX
LAX-PHX
PHX-MEX

OZ seems to be wide open for April 21 or 22 but nothing on SQ or BKK. NZ is only avalibale in Y and for once in my life I want to try C/J class since I got all those miles from the recent promos.

TG hasn't loaded flights at all past 23 March.

This will be an open jaw with return LAX-BNE.

Jun 3, 2010, 1:39 pm

#2260

adamak

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xxx - FRA - MAD (stop) - FRA - Asia (destination)

Is Madrid a valid stopover in this route? Not sure if I can travel westward after connecting through FRA.

Jun 3, 2010, 2:38 pm

#2261

rsqx2

Join Date: Jun 2010

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Is the following a valid award booking under the new rules

Depart LAX to ZRH to LHR stay at LHR for 4 days

Depart LHR to FRA to BKK destination is BKK for 2 weeks
Return to LAX

thank you
(not sure what happened on this formatting)

Jun 3, 2010, 2:42 pm

#2262

eponymous_coward

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Quote:

xxx - FRA - MAD (stop) - FRA - Asia (destination)

Is Madrid a valid stopover in this route? Not sure if I can travel westward after connecting through FRA.

You might try flying the FRA-MAD leg on JK and then arguing that MAD is a hub for them, but JK's true hub in Spain is BCN, not MAD, so this might not work (depends on how closely the CS rep is paying attention). (The problem that's more likely to trip you up is the "all stopovers must be in a ticketed partner's hub" rule).