Booking Korean Air SkyPass Awards Online

what do they require to register someone as your family member?

@ Lantean -- Well the program only allows you to redeem miles for a family member. I guess this is probably to prevent fraud/the selling of miles/the use of miles for trips of business partners.

Ben, i was asking what they require to put someone on my family plan... like what documents or what not.
or i just assign someone?
thank you.

@ Lantean -- Whoops, sorry, read that wrong. You have to submit a copy of their passport.

Is it right to assume you can only book KE and not partner flights online?

@ nemme -- Correct.

Isn't there something about a fax authorization for using the miles; or is that only for awards booked by phone?

Ben, Many thanks for this walk through. Very helpful.

Speaking of Marriott, you should try the Renaissance Okinawa. It's style over substance and extremely overpriced, but at least you pay the latter with points.

@ Mike -- That's only if booking by phone or if a family member is traveling. You can book online for yourself, but if you want to book for family you have to send it authorization form.

Why do most Asian airlines have the most difficult to use sites? SQ is better but can't book partners online 🙁

P.S. Speaking of inconvenient sites -- I find it strange that M&M site shows award availability but doesn't allow to proceed to next step to figure out the taxes & fees unless you have enough miles. Feels silly having to call in for easy questions like that.

Even though only one seat was taken it appears to be the one was reserved?
Pilot rest?

@ Rami -- Hmmm, there was one seat booked before I booked, and also one seat reserved (1G). In the above picture 2A was me, since I selected that seat.

Why not just transfer some of my UR to my girlfriend's Korean Air account if I want to bring her along?

I'm curious as to why you prefer 2A, and not 1A. Any special reason? In the few times I fly F (and have never flown Korean Air), I tend to choose the first row...

@ stvr -- Well technically that violates the terms of the Ultimate Rewards program, but it would be the only way to do it if you wanted to book a trip for someone that's not a family member.

@ Ricardo -- In a two row first class cabin I always choose the second row. I just prefer being able to "observe" the cabin as opposed to being in the front.

hello,
can you use skypass award to book from LAX to ICN to DXB on 1 award ?

@ jane -- I believe that should be possible, yes.

Hi Lucky -- please note that I just transferred UR points from my Chase account to Korean Air Skypass, and the transfer was not instantaneous. Chase notes it takes 3-5 days. Also, tried booking online for another account (direct from Skypass), and said booking could not be completed due to technical difficulties. Hopefully that is just a fluke. Looking forward to traveling KE F if all goes through smoothly.

@ Christian -- Did you transfer the points to a SkyPass account in your name? Also, were the points debited from your Ultimate Rewards account already? That's odd...

I've flown first class to Korea last 10 years using Korean air & Asiana air award tickets. I can say Korean air is so much easier(always had seat for me) to get award tickets since has more flights to US. Asiana is nightmare most time. I've flown kosmo suites on 777 & A380 and they are very nice VS Asiana 's old 747.Last week I called Asiana for reward first class tickets and they have NONE for next 2 month.This is not the first time, Seems like they always play game with you.. Two month ago I put 1 first ticket on stand by and Asiana never released the ticket! I've seen full first class twice over last 20 + trips to Korea and back and it was both on Korean air not Asiana. Also if you travel to south Asia (BKK) Asiana doesn't offer first class seats. Asiana has better first class food @Icn lounge.

For korean air , just open up Korean air acct for you & whole family and call direct.1-800-438-5000 option 2-4-0 will be connect to Korean air sky team.Korean agent told me in Korean that they have more seats for their own Korean air members vs sky team members.

@Lucky -- the transfer was to an account with the same name, and the UR points have already been debited. I also got an email from Chase saying the transfer was received and being processed. No reason given for why not instantaneous.

@ Christian -- Very odd. Please let me know how it turns out!

First off thank you very much for the useful information. I have signed up for chase sapphire and ink because of your site and have accrued miles very quickly.

Question: So I am trying to book a flight from LAX to PUS which inevitably will stop in ICN. They are telling me that I have to use an additional 6000 miles for the ICN -> PUS leg 'because it is domestic'. I don't understand this concept. I can use my miles to get me 90% of the way to my final destination but not the last 10%. What happened to the free 1 stopover for each direction?

Also of note, I tried to use the free stopover on the way back to stop in HNL so the flight would have been ICN -> HNL -> LAX but no dice because Korean Air doesn't fly the HNL -> LAX leg, Delta does. So again, they're making me use additional miles. I'm having a hard time understanding what applies in the 1 free stopover rule. Have the rules changed?

@ Steve -- Hmmm, not really familiar with the first part, that's the first time I've heard that.

As far as the second part goes, if you want to include a segment on Delta you'd have to book via the SkyTeam award chart, which has different redemption rates and requires a roundtrip. So that may not be worth it. If you are interested, be sure you're clarifying to them you want to book a SkyTeam award.

Does anyone know where to find the Skypass Award Application Form? I've sent in the family form, our passports and a family authorization form, but Korean Airlines says I now need to sign and fill in a Skypass Award Application Form before they can issue the reward tickets. But I cannot find it. Do you know where it is? Thank you so much

@ jeannette -- It should be this form, as far as I know:
https://www.koreanair.com/content/dam/koreanair/Global/Documents/SKYPASSAward_Form.pdf

Thanks, Lucky. I found it. Also discovered I need to fill out same form twice. One for each leg of the trip.
So I did and signed and scanned. Hopefully now that I've turned two Skypass Application forms, passport photo scans for myself and my husband, a family membership form - plus a copy of my marriage certificate, they will allow me to get a ticket using milage benefits.

This might be a dumb question -- but do you still accrue miles for award flights? Like did you get the regular mileage rate plus the bonus percentage for flying first class?