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Aegean Air award ticket booking
« on: November 14, 2017, 11:28:55 PM »
I understand that you can book reward tickets on United through Aegean Air with Aegean miles. I'm hoping to book SFO>TLV that way, as they call for less miles than united.

However, when I try to search for award ticket availability on the Aegean website, I'm met with the message that I don't have enough miles. That's true, I don't want to transfer the miles to Aegean until I know they have the flight I need for the amount of miles I want. How can you see Partner reward ticket availability/amounts w/Aegan without having to transfer miles over first?

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Re: Aegean Air award ticket booking
« Reply #1 on: November 15, 2017, 12:24:11 AM »
Whatever star alliance availability united displays Aegean should have access to + they allow holds, although transfers could take up to two weeks to go through

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Re: Aegean Air award ticket booking
« Reply #2 on: November 15, 2017, 12:25:57 AM »
Whatever star alliance availability united displays Aegean should have access to + they allow holds, although transfers could take up to two weeks to go through
How long do the holds last for?

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Re: Aegean Air award ticket booking
« Reply #3 on: November 15, 2017, 05:06:30 AM »
I understand that you can book reward tickets on United through Aegean Air with Aegean miles. I'm hoping to book SFO>TLV that way, as they call for less miles than united.

However, when I try to search for award ticket availability on the Aegean website, I'm met with the message that I don't have enough miles. That's true, I don't want to transfer the miles to Aegean until I know they have the flight I need for the amount of miles I want. How can you see Partner reward ticket availability/amounts w/Aegan without having to transfer miles over first?
Aegean has high fuel surcharges. Call them in Greece for availability.

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Re: Aegean Air award ticket booking
« Reply #4 on: November 15, 2017, 05:09:59 AM »
Aegean has high fuel surcharges. Call them in Greece for availability.
They don't, and besides, there's no YQ for United.
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Re: Aegean Air award ticket booking
« Reply #5 on: November 15, 2017, 09:51:59 AM »
They don't, and besides, there's no YQ for United.
They charge YQ when it is charged except on AC anf UA (which doesnt charge YQ at all). Takes about 9 days for SPG transfers and they xannot hold res.
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Re: Aegean Air award ticket booking
« Reply #6 on: November 15, 2017, 03:22:31 PM »
they xannot hold res.
-1. They held a rezzy for me

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Re: Aegean Air award ticket booking
« Reply #7 on: November 15, 2017, 03:23:46 PM »
How long do the holds last for?
I held a UA tix for 2 days

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Re: Aegean Air award ticket booking
« Reply #8 on: November 15, 2017, 06:12:55 PM »
I held a UA tix for 2 days
-1. They held a rezzy for me
I stand corrected. Guess its YMMV. Didnt allow hold the one time i dealt with them.
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Re: Aegean Air award ticket booking
« Reply #9 on: November 15, 2017, 06:15:49 PM »
I stand corrected. Guess its YMMV. Didnt allow hold the one time i dealt with them.
Dan posted somewhere in response to my question somewhere that you can hold tickets for 2 days with Aegean, as well.

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Re: Aegean Air award ticket booking
« Reply #10 on: November 30, 2017, 12:53:01 AM »
Aegean devalued israel to Europe from 21k to 25k with a word notice

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Re: Aegean Air award ticket booking
« Reply #11 on: November 30, 2017, 01:29:11 PM »
Aegean devalued israel to Europe from 21k to 25k with a word notice
Same 20k SPG
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Re: Aegean Air award ticket booking
« Reply #12 on: November 30, 2017, 01:31:22 PM »
Aegean devalued israel to Europe from 21k to 25k with a word notice
POIDH

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Re: Aegean Air award ticket booking
« Reply #13 on: December 06, 2017, 09:34:24 AM »

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Re: Aegean Air award ticket booking
« Reply #14 on: December 06, 2017, 09:57:23 AM »
Aegean can now book partner rewards online
https://en.aegeanair.com/milesandbonus/news/2017/online-redemption-star-alliance/
Can you search for an award ticket if you don't have enough miles in the account?

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Re: Aegean Air award ticket booking
« Reply #15 on: December 06, 2017, 10:07:18 AM »
Can you search for an award ticket if you don't have enough miles in the account?
Aegean can now book partner rewards online
https://en.aegeanair.com/milesandbonus/news/2017/online-redemption-star-alliance/
It doesn't look like it.. So annoying. Miles and More has the same issue.

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Re: Aegean Air award ticket booking
« Reply #16 on: December 06, 2017, 09:45:25 PM »
this is so cool!

first observations:

works on their app too

searching TLV-NYC
firstly it looks like X went up to 30k ow, seeing 45k in J is just laughable. very easy to navigate & best of all by not clicking on pay now I was able to create a free hold!

very very cool

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Re: Aegean Air award ticket booking
« Reply #17 on: December 06, 2017, 10:17:11 PM »
this is so cool!

first observations:

works on their app too

searching TLV-NYC
firstly it looks like X went up to 30k ow, seeing 45k in J is just laughable. very easy to navigate & best of all by not clicking on pay now I was able to create a free hold!

very very cool
And how much is the yq on j
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Re: Aegean Air award ticket booking
« Reply #18 on: December 06, 2017, 10:47:29 PM »
this is so cool!

first observations:

works on their app too

searching TLV-NYC
firstly it looks like X went up to 30k ow, seeing 45k in J is just laughable. very easy to navigate & best of all by not clicking on pay now I was able to create a free hold!

very very cool
How much miles did you have in your account? I'm wondering what the minimum is to be able to search. Does award space match up what United/Aeroplan see?

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Re: Aegean Air award ticket booking
« Reply #19 on: December 07, 2017, 11:28:09 AM »
I have 60k in the account.

Availability matches with ua & yq is the same as sq & m&m