Not exact matches
The Department of Transportation is issuing a third «Enhancing
Airline Passenger Protections» final rule to enhance protections for air travelers and to improve the air travel environment as follows: expanding the pool of reporting carriers for service quality data; requiring reporting carriers to include service quality data for their domestic scheduled flights operated by their code - share partners; enhancing the Department's code - share disclosure regulation to codify the statutory requirement that carriers and ticket agents must disclose any code - share arrangements
on their
websites on the first display presented in response to a
search of a requested itinerary for each itinerary involving a code - share operation; and prohibiting undisclosed biasing based
on carrier identity by carriers and ticket agents in any electronic displays of the fare, schedule or availability information of multiple carriers.
Searches made
on EgyptAir's
website after Jan. 24 found that the
airline also failed to make this disclosure and instead referred customers to the
airline's baggage overview pages for more information without clearly indicating whether additional baggage fees would apply to the fares displayed.
Award space
on both American
Airlines and British Airways will show in an award
search on American's
website.
You can
search for award space
on American
Airlines»
website and complete the entire booking process online.
Silk Air can be
searched on the Singapore
Airlines website.
Kenya Airways award space can be
searched through Air France's Flying Blue
website, where you'll find there's a ton of award space
on these
airlines to Nairobi.
In the above example, you would go to Frontier
Airline's
website and
search for the flight
on March 15 - 21 for $ 163 round - trip.
Search under Explore > Deals (Flights) and
on the Alaska
Airlines»
website to check out the latest airfares.
Searches on the HawaiianMiles
website only show Hawaiian
Airlines flights.
Unfortunately, the point bonus is only awarded to reservations booked directly with the
airline, car rental service or hotel, though, so if you like
searching for deals
on third - party
websites, you're out of luck.
Most partner
airlines can be
searched on the Air France
website.
These are «meta
search» fare sites, and although they don't offer quite the travel date flexibility as some others do, they often include fares that the
airlines sell only
on their own
websites.
Southwest
Airlines / / If you've done any sort of travel research, then you know that Southwest's airfares aren't included
on aggregate travel
search websites (like Expedia or Skyscanner).
You'll need to
search for Etihad award space
on its own
website and then call American
Airlines to book it.
You can
search for Alaska Award space
on its own
website or with American
Airlines and then call British Airways to book it.
You can
search for and book award flights
on Delta and many of its partner
airlines on Delta's
website.
The British Airways and Qantas
websites are the most comprehensive, but you can also
search on American
Airlines or
on Alaska
Airlines for some JAL partners.
I
searched a few different portals and
websites for the same nonstop trip from Chicago to London
on the same days, but I didn't specify airport, time of day, or
airline.
You would have to sit
on the phone with a phone agent for hours or manually check 17 different
airline websites to duplicate our unprecedented
search capacity.
Search on Google Flights for lowest fares and then you can book directly
on the
airline's
website or any OTA.
Start your
search on Google Flights and you can then book directly
on the
airline's
website or an online travel agency.
The biggest advantage to
searching the ANA
website is that it usually shows all of the alliance partners (with some exception mentioned below), which is very handy for
airlines like Singapore Airlines which don't usually show up on United or A
airlines like Singapore
Airlines which don't usually show up on United or A
Airlines which don't usually show up
on United or Aeroplan.
No matter where you're going, it's a good idea to check any of the discount
airlines that might serve that area — and you can't just do that
on the big booking
websites, since some of them don't feed their airfare results into those
search results.
However, I've tried
searching for transatlantic flights
on US Airways and they don't yet show up
on British Airways»
website (but they do
on American
Airlines» site).
You can
search for Alaska
Airlines award availability
on their
website, and then call British Airways at 1-800-452-1201 to make your booking.
If you want to book an award that includes travel
on Alaska
Airlines, you should learn to
search for award space
on the Alaska
Airlines website or American
Airlines website.
For oneworld flights, try
searching availability
on the
websites of American
Airlines, British Airways, and Qantas.
For example, you might combine the results you find
searching for international flights
on the British Airways
website with domestic connections
on Alaska
Airlines.
In this example I'll
search for an award from Los Angeles to Hong Kong
on Cathay Pacific — a good example because Cathay Pacific is one partner that you can book using American
Airlines or Alaska
Airlines miles, but you can't
search for it using their
websites.
To find available award space,
search for available flights
on the partner
airline's
website and then call Virgin Atlantic to book.
As a fallback method, you can also
search for Alaska's award space
on the American
Airlines website.
You can
search awards for most of these
airlines on the
websites of United, Air Canada or ANA.
Hot Tip: Be cautious
searching for awards directly
on other
airline partner
websites.
Remember, you can't
search for Alaska
Airlines or Hawaiian
Airlines on the SKYPASS
website.
Award space
on both American
Airlines and British Airways will show in an award
search on American's
website.
Silk Air can be
searched on the Singapore
Airlines website.
While the public ones
on the bank
websites tend to be in the 30K — 40K range, quick google
searches will show the standard in the US tends to be 50K
airline miles for an
airline card sign up.
You can
search for award space
on American
Airlines»
website and complete the entire booking process online.
The basic rule of thumb for award
search tools is that oneworld award space (American
Airlines and US Airways) is best
searched on the British Airways
website, and Delta
on the Air France site.
If you have the code
on hand, you can also just go straight to the Alaska
Airlines website and enter it into the Upgrades and Discounts field before
searching for your desired trip.
A lot of alliance partners don't allow you to
search for award availability for other partners
on their
website and that's really annoying because that means you'll always have to call in to book and you're not sure what that
airline is seeing in terms of award availability.
-- You will have to
search availability
on the Singapore
Airlines website (and create a free KrisFlyer account to do so).
You'll have to call American
Airlines to book your flight, since you can't
search for the above partners
on American's
website.
Only Royal Jordanian can be
searched on the American
Airline website.
American
Airlines has a number of partners outside of Oneworld alliance that can not be
searched on American's nor
on British Airways»
websites.
Unfortunately, you can't
search Etihad flights
on the American
Airlines website.
It's pretty straightforward to
search for and book American
Airlines flights
on the British Airways
website.
For best results you should try to
search on 2 or 3 different
airlines»
websites and perhaps even try a tool like ExperFlyer.
Although you should be able to find award space
on the Alaska
Airlines website, some people prefer to
search on the Air France (Flying Blue)
website instead.
For example, if you
search for «blackout dates»
on the Frontier
Airlines website, you'll find blackout date defined as «a day that there are no regular redemption seats available anywhere in our system.»