Sentences with phrase «n't put an award on hold»
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If you don't have the necessary American AAdvantage miles in your account, you can put your award ticket on hold for five days so you'll have time to transfer points to your account.
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If you don't have the required miles in your SkyPass account and you find award space, you can call Korean Air to put the award on hold so you have time to transfer points into your account.
Unlike Korean Air, Delta will not let you put award bookings on hold, so you'll want to keep that in mind if you need to transfer American Express Membership Rewards or SPG Starpoints to your Delta SkyMiles account.
This is made more difficult by the fact that ANA will not put award tickets on hold.
If one agent won't allow you to put an award on hold, hang up and call again.
American Airlines» online search has been known to show phantom award space on Finnair so don't transfer SPG Starpoints until you have confirmed the award space actually exists and you have put the award on hold.
Starpoints don't transfer to airlines immediately so, even when you find an airline award you want to book, you need to be able to put it on hold before you transfer Starpoints.
Since transfers are not instantaneous and take an average of two days, try to put the award you want on hold through the airline's website.
Sometimes this is a YMMV thing and it's not always guaranteed that they will put your award on hold.
AA offers free holds on awards if you call to book, for up to 5 days depending on the carrier, so if you're not sure you're able to fly just yet, call in now to put the flight on hold.
In practice these are fairly blunt tools that tell me «1 cent a point for American miles is a really good deal» but that I'm not going to spend 2 cents unless there's a very specific scenario — like a few points at the margin to top off an account for an award I've put on hold — where it makes sense (and in that scenario, my valuation of each point is higher since they're helping me to save with a real redemption).