Valuation: ANA has long been one of my top foreign frequent flyer programs, partly thanks to its useful Star Alliance
partner award search engine, its non-alliance partners, and its friendly stopover award policies.
Not exact matches
Keep an eye on the
partners of your Host program, and learn which
search engines show
partner flights, and when you'll need to call in to book an
award.
You can
search for
award tickets on Delta.com and can easily redeem SkyMiles on flights with Delta Air Lines and
partner carriers when using their
search engine.
Head over to United.com to
search for the
award space since their
search engine is fairly good and Lufthansa is a Star Alliance
partner.
ANA airlines
award search engine is one of the best available for Star Alliance because it can
search every Star Alliance
partner.
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.
US Airways»
award flight
search engine, for example, only shows
award availability for US Airways operated flights, and none of the
partner flights.
Partners that can't be
searched online can be
searched by calling United at 800 - UNITED - 1 or by
searching other Star Alliance
award search engines.
Using miles for
partner flights online is pretty easy thanks to a comprehensive — but not perfect — online
award search engine.
Between those 3
search engines you should almost always be able to find
award availability
searching through dozens of
partner airlines.
For the most part, the British Airways
award search engine gives pretty accurate results for the vast majority of Oneworld
partners.