Random Airline Questions.

[thaber]

Which airline has the best policy for minors? I would like to send a 16, 14 and 12 year old without dealing with the unaccompanied minor mishegas.

[MeirS]

Which airline has the best policy for minors? I would like to send a 16, 14 and 12 year old without dealing with the unaccompanied minor mishegas.

Which route?
I believe domestically Southwest has the least stringent policy.

[thaber]

Which route?
I believe domestically Southwest has the least stringent policy.

LAX - NYC. Southwest is unfortunately not a direct option

[DealJew]

No.
Even if you were on one reservation there’s no guarantee for that in BE.

Yes, but if we were on one reservation, the system would most probably seat us together.

[thaber]

Which airline has the best policy for minors? I would like to send a 16, 14 and 12 year old without dealing with the unaccompanied minor mishegas.

PSA: looks like AA works best for me - Children ages 2 – 14 can travel as an 'accompanied minor' with someone 16 or older.

[159dallas]

What is the easiest airline to earn status on just by segments. I fly a lot but they are cheap short flights

[shmooz]

Anyone familiar with wifi on AA, besides for buying it, is there any free (amex plat?) or low cost option? Thanks

[thaber]

Anyone familiar with wifi on AA, besides for buying it, is there any free (amex plat?) or low cost option? Thanks

lately a lot of their planes have free basic wifi with tmobile, and others have boingo

[thaber]

What is the easiest airline to earn status on just by segments. I fly a lot but they are cheap short flights

possibly Delta these days. what are your common destinations?

[shmooz]

lately a lot of their planes have free basic wifi with tmobile, and others have boingo

Anything to eretz yisroel?

[Mf1]

Are Ana miles tickets refundable

[HoKo]

Are Ana miles tickets refundable

Last I checked, yes. They charge 3,000 miles as the cancellation penalty. Not sure if that info is still accurate but i did find this page which seems to indicate that's still the case:

https://www.ana.co.jp/en/jp/amc/reference/tukau/award/tk/refund.html

[jomaster28]

Not sure the best place to post this but I would love feedback on the following options and which one you think is best.

ATH-EWR on 7/28 I will book EK J 72.5K $88. I did not find F but if anyone can help that would be awesome.

The question is going, as i ultimately need to get to JTR and found stopover in Europe and then fly direct to JTR and skip ATH.

EWR/JFK-ATH/JTR on 7/19/2022

Option 1: EK J 72.5k plus $132 Then I fly from ATH-JTR...Arrives in ATH 4PM. This is not on the A380 but on the 777

Option 2: AF JFK-CDG-JTR in J for 55k Air France plus $225. This has a short or long layover in Paris and arrives in JTR 5PM

Option 3: LX JFK-GVA-JTR in J for 75k United plus $32. This has a short layover in Geneva and arrives in JTR 3PM


Any advise or help would be greatly appreciated.

[coffeebean]

Sorry if this is a stupid question. When direct flights from NYC-TLV are more than $750 and point bookings from United, AA, Delta, and Elal are valuing the flight way under a cpp, are there any partner sites I should be checking that will have a decent point rate for a direct flight? I already checked BA, Qantas, Virgin Atlantic, and Air Canada, no direct flights are coming up.

[HoKo]

Sorry if this is a stupid question. When direct flights from NYC-TLV are more than $750 and point bookings from United, AA, Delta, and Elal are valuing the flight way under a cpp, are there any partner sites I should be checking that will have a decent point rate for a direct flight? I already checked BA, Qantas, Virgin Atlantic, and Air Canada, no direct flights are coming up.

What date(s)? And are you flying 1W or RT?

[coffeebean]

What date(s)? And are you flying 1W or RT?

1W April 27 or May 1

[HoKo]

1W April 27 or May 1

Two questions:

1) Are you willing to accept a layover if it saves you a lot of money/points?
2) Could you leave on a slightly different date...for example, Apr 28th or 29th?

[coffeebean]

1) That's the backup plan, but not ideal
2) I cannot fly Thursday-Saturday, the other options are April 26 or May 2.

[HoKo]

1) That's the backup plan, but not ideal
2) I cannot fly Thursday-Saturday, the other options are April 26 or May 2.

Cheapest direct option I'm seeing is Delta on may 2nd for 76,000 miles (which is not a great price).

If you are willing to accept a layover (but want to minimize the layover time) then the best option I'm seeing is this option on Turkish: It's available for 40,000 Aeroplan or 42,500 Lifemiles

[Mf1]

What's an amex point transfer that would be best for a  an April 3rd one way united flight to Hawaii?