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Can I Book A Oneway Reward Flight? (Conti Onepass)

Birdwatching From United States of America, joined Sep 2003, 3573 posts, RR: 52
Posted (7 years 3 months 1 week 6 days 6 hours ago) and read 3420 times:

Hi!

I was wondering if I can book a oneway flight instead of a round trip, using my miles. I can't seem to find the oneway button on continental.com, but 2 things suggest this must be possible somehow:

1) When booking roundtrip, it shows me each segment's individual mileage required.

2) Program rules state: "Rewards are valid for roundtrip or one-way (as specified) travel between two cities served by the carrier designated, using the most direct route as defined by the reward you redeem."

So, is this possible at all? Only on the phone?

Thanks for any help!

Soren santahat

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Nimish From India, joined Feb 2005, 3078 posts, RR: 9
Reply 1, posted (7 years 3 months 1 week 6 days 6 hours ago) and read 3409 times:

I've tried to book one way reward flights with CO before, they did not seem to offer that option. Then I looked up a couple of other US airlines, none of them seemed to offer a one way reward option Sad

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Ctbarnes From United States of America, joined Mar 2000, 3491 posts, RR: 52
Reply 2, posted (7 years 3 months 1 week 6 days 5 hours ago) and read 3401 times:

There's also the option of reserving booking a round-trip tickent and just discarding the return. duck

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Malaysia From United States of America, joined Nov 1999, 3185 posts, RR: 0
Reply 3, posted (7 years 3 months 1 week 6 days 5 hours ago) and read 3393 times:

ONE WAY AND ROUND TRIP are both usually the same mileage on some carriers so you waste 1/2 your miles. a way to cheat you. cant just use 1/2 miles for one way tickets, they usually make you use what would be needed if it was round trip

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Ikramerica From United States of America, joined May 2005, 21029 posts, RR: 60
Reply 4, posted (7 years 3 months 1 week 6 days ago) and read 3332 times:

This is not hard to figure out, if you tried to book a one way reward ticket on line, you are given this message:

"! Reward travel can only be booked online for round trip travel. The results below show round trip results."

That's pretty standard. Upgrades are one way now, but most legacy trip rewards are roundtrip only.

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TOLtommy From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 3220 posts, RR: 4
Reply 5, posted (7 years 3 months 1 week 6 days ago) and read 3318 times:

Probably is irrelevant anyway. Standard onepass members are rarely able to get award seats anyway, and if you are able to find an award seat, it'll probably be a double miles "SleazyPass" award. Most standard awards are reserved for elite members. The years I made Plat were great.

Luv2fly From United States of America, joined May 2003, 11957 posts, RR: 51
Reply 6, posted (7 years 3 months 1 week 6 days ago) and read 3316 times:

Quoting TOLtommy (Reply 5):
Probably is irrelevant anyway. Standard onepass members are rarely able to get award seats anyway, and if you are able to find an award seat, it'll probably be a double miles "SleazyPass" award. Most standard awards are reserved for elite members. The years I made Plat were great

I must be the exception as I have never had a problem getting a reward flight and have never been charged double miles. Also have had success in getting reward flights with NW as well.

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TOLtommy From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 3220 posts, RR: 4
Reply 7, posted (7 years 3 months 1 week 6 days ago) and read 3312 times:

I've never had trouble getting seats on NW either. After I stopped flying CO so much, I noticed a big difference in award availability. I could check for awards without signing in and get one result, then log in as a Plat elite and see something completely different, usually same flights, only sleazypass awards. I switched to WorldPerks when I switched to NW, and turned my CO miles into Hilton points.

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