An emergency came up and now I have to fly from LA to NY this week. As ANA search isn't letting me search partner flights right now, I was wondering if someone here can give me some advice. I have under 50000 Continental miles and over 100000 AA Miles. I need to fly either this thursday(16th), saturday night or sunday morning, arriving in the afternoon sunday at latest. To return Tue(21st) is the best for me. I am having a hard time fiiguring this whole system out. If anyone would be kind enough to help me out, I would really appreciate it!
Unfortunately, I don't have time to search availability on CO, UA and AA to find flights, this is the one time I have found use for the usually maligned Delta SkyPesos. Outbound LAX-JFK has availability in the afternoon on the 16th at the cheapest award level. The return on the 21st is tougher, due to the proximity to the heavy Christmas travel season. Still, there are "medium" awards available for 32,500 miles total for the combined award.
If you don't have DL miles, you could possibly find someone around here to trade with (if that is allowed on this site?).
Well...a quick check on CO (not logged in, so it is not an issue of "extra" award space for an elite traveler) shows plenty of outbound availability in coach on CO partner, USAirways at the cheapest level (12,500/one way). The return is still a little tough, but there is right now first class availability at the saver level - even on a non-stop. So, for 37,500, you could use your CO miles to fly US coach outbound and UA return in first-class - all at the saver level.
