Can I use ANA miles for any other adult traveler?

No blanket permission applies to every friend or coworker. ANA limits award users to the member and specified close relationships, with registration required beforehand. Verify both the relationship and registration before treating your miles as a way to pay for someone else’s trip.

What this answer depends on

  • ANA Mileage Club award-user eligibility for adult passengers before ticket issuance; not a general family-travel guide.
  • Eligible users include the primary member, spouse or same-sex partner, and relatives within two degrees of relationship; advance award-user registration is required.
  • ANA generally requires the primary member to apply and verifies identity; a proxy application has its own identity check.
  • Combining different members’ balances is a separate question: ordinary accounts cannot simply be added together, while the Family Account Service provides a specified exception.
  • The same traveler may be eligible for a paid ticket purchased by a friend but not for an award funded from that friend’s ANA account. The distinction is the payment program’s beneficiary rule, not the destination or whether they can sit on the same flight. A useful planning conversation therefore starts with “Whose miles, for which person?” before comparing mileage requirements.
  • An agency’s willingness to take payment from you does not establish ANA award eligibility. Obtain a clear explanation of whether the proposed ticket is a cash purchase or an ANA Mileage Club redemption, and who will issue it.

Important exceptions

  • No individual relationship is adjudicated here. Documents may be needed through ANA’s process. This guide does not authorize nominee substitutions, account sharing or changing the passenger after ticketing. An eligible recipient still needs an available award itinerary.

What to do next

  1. Identify the intended adult passenger and their relationship to the redeeming member. Do not borrow another airline’s more permissive nominee rules.

  2. Review the official award-user registration before searching for a final purchase. Ask ANA to clarify an uncertain relationship rather than entering inaccurate details.

  3. Keep recipient eligibility separate from the funding source. If several balances are needed, review the relevant pooling service independently.

  4. Have the primary member complete the appropriate award request and verify that the intended person and all segments appear on the issued record.

  5. Prepare the redeeming member’s membership details, the passenger’s legal name, relationship information, registration status and itinerary. Share sensitive supporting documents only through the airline’s appropriate channel.

  6. ANA assistance is useful when the published relationship categories do not clearly resolve your situation or the award-user registration does not match the intended traveler.

More booking questions

Does registration alone make every person eligible?

Check the relationship requirement as well as the registration.

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Does an eligible relative automatically contribute their miles?

No. Recipient eligibility and combining account balances are separate decisions.

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