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Also what is the rules in regards to cancellation after booking?
https://www.usairways.com/en-US/dividendmiles/programdetails/memberguide.htmlAlso what is the rules in regards to cancellation after booking?
I did read that was still a little unsure.
It mentions
- Contact Reservations to change award travel. The change fee is $150.
- Once an award is booked, a traveler change is not permitted. If you or the person you designate is unable to travel, you can redeposit your miles into your account; a redeposit fee of $150 applies.
- Redeposit fee
If you cancel your award trip or change your itinerary to a lower award level or class of service, you may redeposit your miles for a $150 fee (waived for Chairman's Preferred members). The fee must be paid by credit card
I did read that was still a little unsure.
It mentions
- Contact Reservations to change award travel. The change fee is $150.
- Once an award is booked, a traveler change is not permitted. If you or the person you designate is unable to travel, you can redeposit your miles into your account; a redeposit fee of $150 applies.
- [h=3]Redeposit fee[/h]If you cancel your award trip or change your itinerary to a lower award level or class of service, you may redeposit your miles for a $150 fee (waived for Chairman's Preferred members). The fee must be paid by credit card
When cancelling and paying the $150 fee, am I correct in assuming that you still get a refund of the taxes but not the booking fee?
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I'm new to the USDM program, having bought a heap of points for the merger with AA. My question is about the timing of USDM bookings - I read that they charge the same points for a one-way booking as for a return one. If I'm doing a four week trip, can I book the outbound leg when the date is released and four weeks later ring again and have them add the return leg, presumably paying the $150 change fee? Or would they seek to charge me for two separate bookings i.e. double the points, in which case I should wait until the return leg is released and hope that there is still availability for the earlier outbound leg?
Also, I gather we need to ring the US-based number to make award bookings from Oz. Is that expensive, or will they call you back?
Of course fingers crossed that the merged system with AA will make these questions redundant but who knows when...
I am still getting my head around this merger after basically memorizing the old US Dividend Miles Chart with Star Alliance and using ANA and United to find availability.
I stumbled upon this chart : https://membership.usairways.com/en-US/Resources/_downloads/dividendmiles/oneworldawardtravel.pdf
So does this mean we can still get redemptions to GUM for 30k return?
I thought it would go to the AAdvantage oneworld chart/scheme straight away or, because techincally there is no merger the points are basically the same as with Star Alliance just on the Oneworld carriers?
In that scenario - changing a oneway to a return, they will likely want to cancel the original booking and start again - leaving you susceptible to losing the seats altogether.
The best approach would be to book a return with fictitious return date then call later to amend the return date - yes, you'll still be up for the $150pp fee. So that would mean you wouldn't be able to book on the exact date of the release of the outbound seats but maybe a couple of days later.
Remember as well that the seats may have been released by the operating airline, but might still be outside of US's booking window - not sure about this - but say QF releases at T-350 days, US might not let you book til T-330 days.
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In theory GUM is still possible, but there is only one OW carrier operating into GUM - JL from NRT. There is no UA equivalent flying to KIX, NRT, HKG, MNL, NGO etc. so in theory would be much more difficult to pick your actual desired destination (stopover).
Also, the MPM for GUM has been greatly reduced since the move to OW...whether or not this will be picked up on by a hapless agent is anyone's guess - MPM does seem to have come into play again a bit more since Apr 1. Any OW routing to GUM from Australia now exceeds MPM.
I don't think we have any successful GUM bookings reported yet? People have definitely tried.
There's a very helpful thread in this forum that spells out all the methods..you'll find it.Finding it tough to look up availability. Is there anything remotely like the ANA tool?