Not exact matches
While you can't transfer ThankYou Points
directly to American Airlines or United Airlines to book one of our example flights
as an
award ticket, you can transfer to one of their respective Oneworld or Star Alliance partners.
It is not unheard for the cash component of a British Airways
award redemption to be
as much
as directly buying a cash
ticket!
Since Virgin uses two cabin planes and doesn't count its main cabin select
as an intermediary class, it's possible to upgrade
award tickets directly from the main cabin to first class.
Membership Rewards points can be transferred to partners or used
as cash through the travel center, which gives you a way to purchase a
ticket with points when
award seats aren't available
directly from the airline.
Having previously booked a few Lufthansa
awards, I felt confident that a
ticket from either Frankfurt or Munich to the west coast (ideally Los Angeles or San Francisco, but I would have considered Seattle or Houston,
as well) would open up; my big concern was finding a United flight within the US if I couldn't fly
directly to Los Angeles.