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Online partner airline award booking: No, phone only.
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Online partner airline award booking: Yes - Stopovers: Flying Blue allows for 1 free stopover.
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Online partner airline award booking: Some partners, like Aer Lingus and Alaska, are bookable via the phone only.
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Online partner airline award booking: Some partners can be booked online, others are phone - only.
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Online partner airline award booking: Some partner airline awards must be booked over the phone.
Not exact matches
Japan
Airlines doesn't allow you to book all
partner awards online or even search for some of them.
Just a quick note about booking
awards on these
partner airlines: while Etihad
award flights may be booked
online, you must redeem miles for
partner awards over the phone by calling the Guest Services Centre at 877-690-0767 at least 14 days in advance.
Not all
partners are shown
online, and sometimes the site shows «phantom availability» for
partner airlines (
awards that are not really available for booking).
There's a 5 % discount for booking
award travel
online with Singapore
Airlines or SilkAir (but not partner ai
Airlines or SilkAir (but not
partner airlinesairlines).
The Iberia website has recently added more of its
airline partners for
online award searches, though there are a few you still need to call in to search and book.
The newest transfer
partner is a SkyTeam
partner similar to Korean Air, but Flying Blue
awards are much easier to process
online as most
award redemptions, including
partner airlines, can be completed
online.
While
award space on these six
partner airlines can be found online, keep in mind that they still fall under a different award chart than flights on Japan A
airlines can be found
online, keep in mind that they still fall under a different
award chart than flights on Japan
AirlinesAirlines.
Until recently, Korean Air did not provide a way to search
online for
award availability on any of its
partner airlines.
American
Airlines online award search capability is not as strong as some of its Oneworld
partners.
Well, now you have a much better option as Singapore
Airlines allows you to search for and book
award flights with Star Alliance
partners online.
As part of the smaller oneworld alliance, British Airways doesn't have quite as many
partner award opportunities as members of the larger alliances, like United
Airlines, but the fact that it lets you book nearly all
partner awards online makes it simple to use.
there will be no booking fee, when you book
awards with Etihad, Cathay Pacific, Malaysian
Airlines or other
partners that can not be booked
online.
As Southwest
Airlines doesn't have any
airline partners, booking
awards online is easy, comprehensive, and generally the way to go.
Though Delta isn't known for offering a generous amount of
award space to its
partners, I was able to find four first - class
award seats available in August from Denver to Maui via Los Angeles and Seattle using the
online award search engine for Alaska
Airlines, which you don't even need an account to use.
Unfortunately,
partner flights can not be booked
online, and each
partner airline has its own
award chart.
You can't book any
awards online for China
Airlines or one of its
partners.
Not all
partners are shown
online, and sometimes the site shows «phantom availability» for
partner airlines (
awards that are not really available for booking).
Just a quick note about booking
awards on these
partner airlines: while Etihad
award flights may be booked
online, you must redeem miles for
partner awards over the phone by calling the Guest Services Centre at 877-690-0767 at least 14 days in advance.
Since other
partner airlines aren't available to be booked
online, it makes it difficult to search for
award availability.
Though you can request an
award ticket on
partner airlines by completing an
online form, it might be quicker and easier to call.
You can book
awards online for Cathay Pacific or you might have to submit an
airline award request form to book with a
partner.
Alaska
Airlines has some exciting
airline partners, and all those
partner awards can be booked
online (except Cathay Pacific and LAN)
Although Singapore
Airlines has now added the option to search for and book Star Alliance
partner awards online, the interface is still a bit clunky.
You can find
awards online easily for
award flights with
partners airberlin, Alaska
Airlines, British Airways, Finnair, Hawaiian
Airlines and Qantas Airways.
But here's the very important thing to know: Not all
partners will show up on an
airline's
online award booking — and the Big Three have some of the worst availability of Saver (low) level
awards of any
airlines.
But American does not display some of its
partner airlines in its
online award booking engine, so you will have to call to book at a charge of $ 25.
The American
Airlines shopping portal
partners with over 850
online stores to
award you bonus AAdvantage miles on your purchases.
You do need to call Singapore
Airlines KrisFlyer to book United and other
partner award, these can't be booked
online.
If you want to book your
award ticket
online, that can be done for Miles & More
airlines such as the ones I just now listed, but when booking with non Miles & More
partners, such as other Star Alliance
partners, you must call in.
Alaska
Airline miles are very valuable thanks to the Mileage Plan program's generous
award chart, vast
partner network, and the ease of redeeming miles
online.
As it's not possible to book
partner flights or search for seats
online, you'll need to look for available
award seats on the
partner airlines website.