I called Virgin Atlantic and was able to
put the award on hold for 24 hours.
Advantages of using AA miles include being able to book one way awards,
put the award on hold for up to 5 days before ticketing, and having AA call you back if there's a long hold time.
Not exact matches
And despite losing the Best Actress
award to Frances McDormand, the Australian actress, 27, looked relaxed and happy as she
put on cheeky display with handsome husband Tom Ackerley at the annual Los Angeles event,
held at the Wallis Annenberg Centre
for Performing Arts.
If you need to transfer points to your Flying Blue account before booking, some friendly phone agents have been known to
put award tickets
on hold for a couple of days which leaves plenty of time
for transfers to process.
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.
Hot Tip: One big advantage of the American AAdvantage program is that you can
put award seats
on hold for up to 5 days.
For this reason, we actually prefer calling to
put an
award on hold before transferring points to Korean Air.
A very useful feature of the American AAdvantage program is that it will let you
put an
award booking
on hold for 5 days.
Hot Tip: One big advantage of the American AAdvantage program is that you can
put award seats
on hold for up to 5 days.
American will let you
put award tickets
on hold for up to 5 days, so make sure you
put the ticket
on hold to ensure you have the seat locked in before you buy miles.
To keep your
awards seat from disappearing while you're waiting
for your points to transfer,
put your reservation
on hold before transferring (if the program allows it), or make sure that there are multiple seats available
on your intended flight or that there is more than one flight available
on the same airline.
It never hurts to call and see if the airline can
put an
award flight
on hold for you as you are transferring points.
American will
put an
award flight
on hold for a year from the date the ticket was originally purchased.
American has a special list of
award routes that it
puts on sale each season
for those that
hold an American co-branded Citi credit card.
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.
Once you find the
award you want, you have to call Korean Air to
put the
award on hold — agents may be able to
put seats
on hold for weeks or months if you ask, up until a few days before departure.
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).