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Re: Star Alliance Award Search Tips
« Reply #522 on: May 19, 2013, 11:20:05 AM »

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Re: Star Alliance Award Search Tips
« Reply #523 on: May 19, 2013, 12:32:03 PM »
Why?
A. As Gary explains.
B. As I've said before the UA ESD was willing to open UA awards seats when phantom LH seats showed on UA.com
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Re: Star Alliance Award Search Tips
« Reply #524 on: May 19, 2013, 12:49:33 PM »
A. As Gary explains.
B. As I've said before the UA ESD was willing to open UA awards seats when phantom LH seats showed on UA.com
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Re: Star Alliance Award Search Tips
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Re: Star Alliance Award Search Tips
« Reply #526 on: May 19, 2013, 12:54:16 PM »
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Re: Star Alliance Award Search Tips
« Reply #527 on: May 19, 2013, 01:07:27 PM »
Electronic support desk=Callback number.
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Re: Star Alliance Award Search Tips
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Re: Star Alliance Award Search Tips
« Reply #529 on: May 23, 2013, 02:19:33 PM »
You either need 100 miles or you you need to search for an ANA served route and then you can switch it to Star Alliance.

How do you switch it?

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Re: Star Alliance Award Search Tips
« Reply #530 on: June 04, 2013, 10:52:17 AM »
Anyone having problems with ANA. A lot of flights aren't showing up.

For instance, today there is a direct flight PHL-TLV that is open and it's not showing up on ANA.

It seems like it's mostly US and UA flights.

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« Reply #531 on: June 11, 2013, 02:55:52 PM »
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Re: Star Alliance Award Search Tips
« Reply #532 on: June 20, 2013, 02:04:11 PM »
When searching from NYC-tlv  on united how come the stops in turkey only have united flights and not Turkish?

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Re: Star Alliance Award Search Tips
« Reply #533 on: June 22, 2013, 10:11:50 PM »
When searching from NYC-tlv  on united how come the stops in turkey only have united flights and not Turkish?

It depends on when the Star Alliance partner is showing saver/award availability.
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Re: Star Alliance Award Search Tips
« Reply #534 on: June 22, 2013, 11:52:25 PM »
This may be a dumb question, or this may be the wrong thread, so forgive me if so in advance!

I am looking to book 2 award tickets on Star Alliance USA-SE Asia. Problem is I have my miles split about 50/50 into UR and MR. Is there a way to "combine" these into one itinerary, either by getting them all into one program or booking the same itinerary on via two separate star partners? If it costs me a little more in fees or miles that's OK as long as it's not exorbitant...THANKS!

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Re: Star Alliance Award Search Tips
« Reply #535 on: June 22, 2013, 11:55:48 PM »
This may be a dumb question, or this may be the wrong thread, so forgive me if so in advance!

I am looking to book 2 award tickets on Star Alliance USA-SE Asia. Problem is I have my miles split about 50/50 into UR and MR. Is there a way to "combine" these into one itinerary, either by getting them all into one program or booking the same itinerary on via two separate star partners? If it costs me a little more in fees or miles that's OK as long as it's not exorbitant...THANKS!
It really depends on what airlines your flying.

You can't combine points, but you could transfer MR to AC, SQ, ANA which they can put you on the same flights as UA can.

Before you do anything, maybe give a break down on what airlines you're trying to fly and your points balance so we can help you out.

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Re: Star Alliance Award Search Tips
« Reply #536 on: June 22, 2013, 11:57:32 PM »
It really depends on what airlines your flying.

You can't combine points, but you could transfer MR to AC, SQ, ANA which they can put you on the same flights as UA can.

Before you do anything, maybe give a break down on what airlines you're trying to fly and your points balance so we can help you out.
Thanks for that quick response! My dates and even itinerary are not set yet as I'm not looking to travel for about a year. But with award availability generally opening 365-330 days in advance I want to get my ducks in a row ahead of time. So just trying to get a general feel for what I consider to be a rather difficult booking as I would be coming from 2 separate points systems...

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Re: Star Alliance Award Search Tips
« Reply #537 on: June 23, 2013, 12:02:12 AM »
Thanks for that quick response! My dates and even itinerary are not set yet as I'm not looking to travel for about a year. But with award availability generally opening 365-330 days in advance I want to get my ducks in a row ahead of time. So just trying to get a general feel for what I consider to be a rather difficult booking as I would be coming from 2 separate points systems...
Put it like this.

SQ and ANA charge YQ (size depending on the airline) besides on UA and US.

Aeroplan is half and half (don't have the specifics off hand).

You will need to decide which airlines you are going to be flying and then you can start seeing where you should stock pile.

Best bet is to stock UR and UA since it's the easiest and generally the cheapest miles to use for your trip.

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Re: Star Alliance Award Search Tips
« Reply #538 on: June 27, 2013, 01:14:13 PM »
120k united miles for 2 first class round trip to Jamaica from JFK, good deal???
OR
A little over 1k dollars for 2 economy round trip????

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Re: Star Alliance Award Search Tips
« Reply #539 on: June 27, 2013, 01:25:17 PM »
120k united miles for 2 first class round trip to Jamaica from JFK, good deal???
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A little over 1k dollars for 2 economy round trip????

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