Can only Gold club members redeem miles 75%/25%?

I called up the Flying club on Saturday to book redeem my miles and book Upper for the very first time for hubbie & me to SFO/LAX next year--Whoo Hoo[^]

I am an authorised user on my three teenagers/grown kids accounts (who don't want or use their miles) and hubbies too.It was very complicted to use the miles correctly as I was booking PE to MCO too for just two of us.

The way I'd worked out the miles for one Upper seat was with a 75%/25% split of miles.The person I spoke to at the Flying club explained that only Gold members could use the 75%/25% split and any other members could only do 100% or a 50%/50% spilt[:?]

The agent was extremely helpful and with lots of jigging around with the five accounts we managed it with me being only 1000 miles short,which I quickly purchased and then called straight back to confirm it all.

I'm sure though that I asked on here a while ago and the concensus was (if I remember rightly) that all flying club members could do the 75%/25% split?

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Any member can do a 50/50 split on a RETURN flight. Not even Golds (unless using an SSA or Kid's Account for funding part of an award) can SPLIT a single sector (ie: 75/25)

It's not actually a 50/50 deal at all anyway. You have to "pay" 100% of each SECTOR from one account.


So - a RETURN flight is 2 sectors. 1 sector can be funded by 1 account, the other by another. This gives the illusion of a 50/50 split, but you're actually paying for each sector 100% from one account. Since VS return awards are 2 x the one-way award, it's made simpler.


Now, in your case - 2 return flights = 4 sectors. ANY member (not just Golds) can pay for 1 sector from one account (so-called "25%") and the other 3 sectors from another (the remaining "75%")

Thanks,yes I can see exactly what you mean,I obviously misunderstood before--Doh[oo]

Alls well that ends well--all flights are booked[y]