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Re: Star Alliance Award Search Tips
« Reply #380 on: May 16, 2012, 04:40:51 PM »
Who is "they"?
I flew VIE-TLV less than a month ago on *A (OS)

I was talking about United.com
I figured out what happened. Unless I search for a day with direct flight availability there is no way to see a "forest-view" calendar with all direct availability. So it looked like direct didn't exist. I see it does now.

So you are right about VIE, but CPH does not have direct to TLV as far as I can see. Any other scandanvian possibilities?
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Re: Star Alliance Award Search Tips
« Reply #381 on: May 16, 2012, 04:42:36 PM »
cph does starting in june i believe two days a week

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Re: Star Alliance Award Search Tips
« Reply #382 on: May 16, 2012, 04:47:05 PM »
cph does starting in june i believe two days a week

Well it's not showing on united.com for post-june either

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Re: Star Alliance Award Search Tips
« Reply #383 on: May 16, 2012, 04:49:46 PM »
Well it's not showing on united.com for post-june either
it wont show up if there isnt availability

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Re: Star Alliance Award Search Tips
« Reply #384 on: May 16, 2012, 04:57:23 PM »
it wont show up if there isnt availability

I searched for paid fares as well

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Re: Star Alliance Award Search Tips
« Reply #385 on: May 24, 2012, 03:30:48 AM »
germany 14 hour stop 2 adults and 3 children- stop is overnight- will prob stay in hotel near airport- they wanna know if its dangerous... i never did it and didnt find much about it- (flight is in business class)

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Re: Star Alliance Award Search Tips
« Reply #386 on: May 24, 2012, 05:20:36 AM »
germany 14 hour stop 2 adults and 3 children- stop is overnight- will prob stay in hotel near airport- they wanna know if its dangerous... i never did it and didnt find much about it- (flight is in business class)
What are you asking? Is staying in a hotel in Germany is dangerous?
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Re: Star Alliance Award Search Tips
« Reply #387 on: May 24, 2012, 05:23:30 AM »
Is there a master list of all 1-stop connections from NYC to TLV anywhere?

So far I have:
ZRH
FRA
MUC
BRU
IST
WAW

Am I missing any? In general I'm finding that Euope-TLV has good Business availability but scarce economy. Can you combine?
Yes. There's a master thread flights to TLV or so (try googling it)

AFAIK the CPH-TLV hasn't been uploaded to the * system yet.

Bear in mind TLV-CPH arrives at midnight after all flights departed from CPH, so if you want to connect from there you will have to spend the night there.
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Re: Star Alliance Award Search Tips
« Reply #388 on: May 24, 2012, 02:45:08 PM »

AFAIK the CPH-TLV hasn't been uploaded to the * system yet.


Can I search by calling?

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Re: Star Alliance Award Search Tips
« Reply #389 on: June 11, 2012, 12:57:26 PM »
In one of Dan;s posts on the main site he wrote you can use United miles to get to TLV using:
Singapore/Lufthansa via Frankfurt, Aegean via Athens
I'm not able to search for those routes on United.com
If I search those airlines inventory directly using Expert Flyer, will that be indicative of United's availability?
What about elite vs non-elite? Is that only for United flights?

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Re: Star Alliance Award Search Tips
« Reply #390 on: June 17, 2012, 03:32:40 PM »
how do i get ana to let me search flights... its not letting me search
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Re: Star Alliance Award Search Tips
« Reply #391 on: June 17, 2012, 03:33:47 PM »
how do i get ana to let me search flights... its not letting me search
you have an ANA account?
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Re: Star Alliance Award Search Tips
« Reply #392 on: June 17, 2012, 03:43:31 PM »
just signed up with one...though its the japanese one
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Re: Star Alliance Award Search Tips
« Reply #393 on: July 01, 2012, 05:20:44 PM »
Anyone know of a way to find out to which cities in Europe you can fly direct to from LAX area using United miles?

I know that there are direct flights to London and various cities in Germany from LAX, but I would like to avoid those two.

Do I have any other options?

Thanks!

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Re: Star Alliance Award Search Tips
« Reply #394 on: July 20, 2012, 12:27:02 PM »
"ANA search is far from exhaustive, it does not search all possibilities.  To really search all options do a regular fare search on Orbitz and find all of the Star Alliance options.  Then enter in each leg separately into ANA.
For example search for JFK-IST and then IST-TLV to go on Turkish via Istanbul, or JFK-MUC and then MUC-TLV to go on Lufthansa via Munich, etc."
Is Kayak just as good? I ask cuz they give you the option to choose alliances you want to fly with as opposed to click each airline separately.
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Re: Star Alliance Award Search Tips
« Reply #395 on: August 05, 2012, 01:10:08 AM »
It's graying out my ability to click on Star Alliance partner search... this is while I'm logged in...

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Re: Star Alliance Award Search Tips
« Reply #396 on: August 08, 2012, 03:35:08 PM »
what is the best points to use from nyc to kbp ? i have united ba ana and aa which one wil be the best to use ?

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Re: Star Alliance Award Search Tips
« Reply #397 on: August 09, 2012, 01:11:15 AM »
It's graying out my ability to click on Star Alliance partner search... this is while I'm logged in...
read the original post.  u first need to search for a flight that ana flies and then it should give you option to search Star Alliance.

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Re: Star Alliance Award Search Tips
« Reply #398 on: August 09, 2012, 10:24:54 PM »
read the original post.  u first need to search for a flight that ana flies and then it should give you option to search Star Alliance.
So to just check domestic within the US is impossible? Say if United wasn't showing availability and I wanted to fly US Airways...

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Re: Star Alliance Award Search Tips
« Reply #399 on: August 10, 2012, 01:47:08 AM »
So to just check domestic within the US is impossible? Say if United wasn't showing availability and I wanted to fly US Airways...
read the original post.
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