I am going to St. Lucia next August and I would like to use some of my air miles. It would take 30,000 air miles for a round trip ticket. They told me that there are no more "miles" seats available so they want to charge me 60,000 air miles to book a seat. With all of the problems that airlines have these days, don't you think they would try and KEEP customers. I'll never fly US Air again.
2006-09-26 19:27:57 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Travel ➔ Air Travel
It's not just USAir: a lot of airlines are making it very difficult to redeem at lower mileage levels because there are so many ways to earn miles other than via flying these days (Credit cards, shopping, bonus partners, etc). And those miles are like money not being redeemed, so the airlines have limited the number of "economy miles" seats and increased the number of miles needed for a truly free ticket.
Either redeem your miles for upgraded seats or find another airline, knowing they their frequent flyer policies are probably not all that much better.
2006-09-27 08:09:30 · answer #1 · answered by CMass Stan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's ridiculous, and you are asking way in advance!!!
If you want to use them up before you move on, maybe you can you fly standby? There are usually some seats available at the last minute.
2006-09-26 19:35:57 · answer #2 · answered by Genie♥Angel 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If there are no more miles seats available why are they charging you 60K miles????? sounds like they are full of it.
2006-09-26 19:31:17 · answer #3 · answered by konala 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm never going to even attempt to fly with US AIR.
2006-09-26 19:40:03 · answer #4 · answered by OneDay 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋