I am new to ANA - Hoping you all might be able to answer some questions and confirm a few things for me.
My husband and I are looking to fly to from ORD to Japan along with our baby.
- From my understanding, ANA often only releases one business and one first award availability, due to this I am thinking of booking one first class and one business class for the same flights. If another award seat opens up, are we able to downgrade or upgrade so that we can fly together in the same class?
- Because we are originating from the US and are required to book return, we will have to book our first flight no sooner that 354 days our since the return placeholder will be day 355?
- We are able to change the day for free so once a return day is available, we can easily change this for free?
- a lap child is only 10% points of the award booking (so only ~10k points plus tax) for business. Does this need to be booked when we book our initial flights or can we add this later on?
- Does ANA put award flights on hold if we call them? I have read mixed things online.
- As long as the originating flight is available, it is okay if the return flight is waitlisted since we are planning on changing the date anyways?
- How do we go about adding a stopover which I believe is free? Do we have to call to book this? Does this need to be done during the initial booking?
Thank you in advance!
My husband and I are looking to fly to from ORD to Japan along with our baby.
- From my understanding, ANA often only releases one business and one first award availability, due to this I am thinking of booking one first class and one business class for the same flights. If another award seat opens up, are we able to downgrade or upgrade so that we can fly together in the same class?
- Because we are originating from the US and are required to book return, we will have to book our first flight no sooner that 354 days our since the return placeholder will be day 355?
- We are able to change the day for free so once a return day is available, we can easily change this for free?
- a lap child is only 10% points of the award booking (so only ~10k points plus tax) for business. Does this need to be booked when we book our initial flights or can we add this later on?
- Does ANA put award flights on hold if we call them? I have read mixed things online.
- As long as the originating flight is available, it is okay if the return flight is waitlisted since we are planning on changing the date anyways?
- How do we go about adding a stopover which I believe is free? Do we have to call to book this? Does this need to be done during the initial booking?
Thank you in advance!