US Dividend Miles - Oneworld Award Booking Questions and General Discussion

[burmans]

Ah well if noone else wants to start I will.

What are we all using to research Oneworld availability?

 

[alieninperth]

The same tools that we currently use to search of AAwards.

 

[sergeyvzn]

a combination of Qantas, BA Executive Club and AAwards

 

[alieninperth]

also MH and JL for completeness.

 

[sergeyvzn]

also MH and JL for completeness.

BA Executive Club sees both MH and JL availability, no need to go elsewhere

 

[The Rok]

So if I want to book two awards from Perth to LHR this December, do I have to find availability myself and then call USDM or can I just call with rough dates and let them find the awards for me?

Also, can I ring up and book the flights but get the points for each ticket pulled from different accounts? so a round trip in J, PER-xx_-LHR is 120,000 USDM's each, I don't have that much in one account, but I have 130,000 in one acct and 122,000 in the other?

 

[appaz]

So if I want to book two awards from Perth to LHR this December, do I have to find availability myself and then call USDM or can I just call with rough dates and let them find the awards for me?

Also, can I ring up and book the flights but get the points for each ticket pulled from different accounts? so a round trip in J, PER-xx_-LHR is 120,000 USDM's each, I don't have that much in one account, but I have 130,000 in one acct and 122,000 in the other?

I read earlier today that US Airways is passing on the LHR taxes, so it would be much more expensive to fly in and out of LHR then anywhere else in Europe

 

[alieninperth]

BA Executive Club sees both MH and JL availability, no need to go elsewhere

Yes but BA can give some phantom availability, as can QF, that JL doesnt seem to. MH can give some alternates that may not come up with BA.

I read earlier today that US Airways is passing on the LHR taxes, so it would be much more expensive to fly in and out of LHR then anywhere else in Europe

US always passed on the tax on departures, this is not a change to the program. No additional taxes on arriving. They are however charging extra carrier charges for BA, IB generally and AA trans atlantic from what I have read on other blogs.

 

[alieninperth]

So if I want to book two awards from Perth to LHR this December, do I have to find availability myself and then call USDM or can I just call with rough dates and let them find the awards for me?

Also, can I ring up and book the flights but get the points for each ticket pulled from different accounts? so a round trip in J, PER-xx_-LHR is 120,000 USDM's each, I don't have that much in one account, but I have 130,000 in one acct and 122,000 in the other?

You can just call them and ask but I think you would be better to do the research and then call. Yo0u would have to have 120,000 in each account, maybe there will be a share promo in the coming months. Alternatively you could book AU-EU-US for 110k and have the stopover as the longest break. You were talking about Ireland? US / the new American Airlines, flies to DUB as an international destination, allowing stopovers there.

 

[burmans]

So if I want to book two awards from Perth to LHR this December, do I have to find availability myself and then call USDM or can I just call with rough dates and let them find the awards for me?

Also, can I ring up and book the flights but get the points for each ticket pulled from different accounts? so a round trip in J, PER-xx_-LHR is 120,000 USDM's each, I don't have that much in one account, but I have 130,000 in one acct and 122,000 in the other?

To London and with no set dates USDM can probably do it for you, searching yourself works best when you have definite dates and/or desired itineraries, December might be hard depending on time of month.

And yes to your second question you can use 120k from two accounts.

 

[The Rok]

You can just call them and ask but I think you would be better to do the research and then call. Yo0u would have to have 120,000 in each account, maybe there will be a share promo in the coming months. Alternatively you could book AU-EU-US for 110k and have the stopover as the longest break. You were talking about Ireland? US / the new American Airlines, flies to DUB as an international destination, allowing stopovers there.

We have decided to make it two different trips as we have so much to do on each one, so we are off to Dublin for Christmas/New Year for my sisters wedding, plus a week or so before hand in the UK to catch up with family/friends, then off to Florida to see more family probably next Summer. We can fly in/out of anywhere in the UK, or if we have to Dublin and then we will FR hop across to the UK…

 

[alieninperth]

Sorry, The Rok, I'm re-reading your question now and realise that you have all the points you need; I thought you needed a few more in one of them. You should be fine, just tell the operator that you will need to take the points from 2 accounts and you'll be fine.

 

[alieninperth]

Open Jaw into the UK and then out of DUB might work then.

 

[sergeyvzn]

Just booked a round trip from Sydney to Noumea for 2 in J for around Christmas. The whole thing took 10 min on the phone...some trouble with recognizing Noumea - first they thought we wanted to go to Delhi

 

[burmans]

Just booked a round trip from Sydney to Noumea for 2 in J for around Christmas. The whole thing took 10 min on the phone...some trouble with recognizing Noumea - first they thought we wanted to go to Delhi

First to leverage SWP value with Oneworld I think!

 

[Alanslegal]

Over on the success thread sergeyvzn has booked a QF SYD-NOU-SYD J return. I assume s/he has booked using USDM?

If this is the case, should I call USDM and try get find/book a SYD-LON-SYD QF award now?

 

[LordGarlic]

are we still able to do the gum trick given that us airway is part of ow??

 

[burmans]

are we still able to do the gum trick given that us airway is part of ow??

In theory this and similar routes are still available, but I dont think any OW airlines actually fly to GUM.

Another question for the group, now it is clear that USDM will remain as its own entity for quite some time yet, anyone hoping for a 100% share promo again?

 

[timon]

In theory this and similar routes are still available, but I dont think any OW airlines actually fly to GUM.

I believe JAL fly to Guam daily from Narita

 

[sergeyvzn]

Over on the success thread sergeyvzn has booked a QF SYD-NOU-SYD J return. I assume s/he has booked using USDM?

If this is the case, should I call USDM and try get find/book a SYD-LON-SYD QF award now?

Obviously, it was USDM

SYD-LON-SYD may be a bit hard, you will need to get seats on QF's own service to London, the Emirates codeshare will not work as their are not part of OneWorld