I've had a number of calls to USAirways over the last week or two as I've been tweaking a Star Alliance award reservation. I call the main number and go through the prompts for international bookings. Every time I've gotten a very well spoken, easy to understand, KNOWLEDGEABLE agent that has been very helpful. So, to that end - Kudos to US!
Too bad none of my award travel will be on US(said with sarcasm), even though I tried booking from PHL to points in Europe for June. Looking at *A awards from IAD on UA/LH or EWR on LH opened up a whole lot of opportunities. Who said Summer award bookings are impossible. I'll enjoy sampling LH First on the upper deck of their 747, though.
Here's a question - what's more expensive from a cost perspective -
1.) Paying another airline to put your members on it with points (i.e. US is paying LH something for my F seat in exchange for my 125,000 miles)
2.) Giving away one of your own premium seats on a similar route (i.e. PHL-FRA/LGW/CDG, etc)
Too bad none of my award travel will be on US(said with sarcasm), even though I tried booking from PHL to points in Europe for June. Looking at *A awards from IAD on UA/LH or EWR on LH opened up a whole lot of opportunities. Who said Summer award bookings are impossible. I'll enjoy sampling LH First on the upper deck of their 747, though.
Here's a question - what's more expensive from a cost perspective -
1.) Paying another airline to put your members on it with points (i.e. US is paying LH something for my F seat in exchange for my 125,000 miles)
2.) Giving away one of your own premium seats on a similar route (i.e. PHL-FRA/LGW/CDG, etc)