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Home » Award Bookings » Swiss, Adria, and Croatia Airlines Award Space Now Bookable on Continental.com
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Swiss, Adria, and Croatia Airlines Award Space Now Bookable on Continental.com

Matthew Klint Posted onFebruary 2, 2012December 6, 2016 6 Comments

Swiss, Adria, and Croatia Airlines award seats are now bookable on continental.com, meaning that 26/27 Star Alliance carriers can now be booked quickly and easily online. Only Ethiopian Airlines, which joined Star Alliance last December, is yet to be added.

 CO Swiss Award Bookings

CO Croatia Award Bookings

CO Adria Award Bookings

 

Up until now, the use of the Air Canada/Aeroplan or ANA award search tool has been required to check award space on those three carriers, but Continental further establishes itself as an industry-leader in booking award travel online. I just got off the phone booking an SAS EuroBonus award for a client and the process was lengthy and annoying–having the ability to book online and get a good feel for availability with Continental’s two month-long award calendar may hurt my award consulting business, but it helps the average traveler and I continue to applaud Continental’s efforts to make their website user-friendly.

A word of caution, though: I have been getting a lot of false-positives lately on the Continental search tool, particularly on United, Continental, and Lufthansa flights. For example, Lufthansa A380 first class seats between FRA and NRT are showing on many dates, but they are not showing up on the ANA tool and are unbookable.

Oddly, some Continental and United flights are showing up with saver-space as well for everyone, even if the flight only has elite-restricted award space (Continental and United designate some additional awards seats at the saver level on select flights for elites). I thought the problem might be that I just did not fully log-out of my account, but even in trying a search on a friend’s computer, the seats came up (and were unbookable when I tried to complete the booking with a non-elite OnePass number).

With Swiss, Adria, and Croatia all added to Continental’s online booking engine, searching for award space is now even easier. And take a look at Swiss availability between Geneva and New York in business class during the summer–it’s not bad!

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Matthew Klint

Matthew is an avid traveler who calls Los Angeles home. Each year he travels more than 200,000 miles by air and has visited more than 135 countries. Working both in the aviation industry and as a travel consultant, Matthew has been featured in major media outlets around the world and uses his Live and Let's Fly blog to share the latest news in the airline industry, commentary on frequent flyer programs, and detailed reports of his worldwide travel.

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6 Comments

  1. JettyBoy Reply
    February 2, 2012 at 7:29 pm

    my only concern is whether this is going to lead Swiss to retract its (already scant) availability for award seats ex-US. Witness what happened to TK availability once they got added to the CO search engine.

  2. Matthew Reply
    February 2, 2012 at 7:48 pm

    @JettyBoy: I am fearful as well, but for a different reason. I don’t think TK pulled back availability–I think people just booked it up because it became so easy to do so. I expect the same thing to happen with LX…

  3. FriendlySkies Reply
    February 3, 2012 at 7:41 am

    Even before this, LX premium space on ex-US routes was very tough to find. Try looking for space on SFO-ZRH for August, and you’ll likely find nothing (wasn’t any space when I last checked).

  4. Matt Reply
    February 3, 2012 at 10:27 pm

    Thanks for the heads up. I was finally able to find an award routing and book a few segments in LX first class on their A330-300 and also a flight on TG’s leased 777-300ERs. Additionally, the US Air agent I worked with over the phone was extremely helpful and curious about my flight research methods.

  5. rocky Reply
    February 6, 2012 at 3:49 am

    My only concern is when the merger is done they are going to take united ticketing system and website and take everything good continental has done away! It’s like what happened with nwa/delta merged!

  6. Matthew Reply
    February 6, 2012 at 10:38 pm

    @rocky:

    Worry not, my contacts have confirmed that CO’s system will remain–but in some (selfish) ways, I am sad tot see that. Despite what I write above, if people can search themselves, they won’t need me to do it for them!

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