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Dec 10, 2009 | 11:46 am

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Originally Posted by AJLondon

IIRC, with LH miles you can only mix and match carriers in one award only as long as they are all in the Star Alliance. So I would strongly doubt if you can actually mix 9W with any another partner in a same award.

And one-ways awards are rather poor value using LH miles as they cost 75% of a round-trip.

I have done a mixed redemption on 9W/LH last year. The only issue was I wanted to fly LH F and 9W C and if I did a mixed class I'd have to use miles for the higher class and go with a voluntary downgrade basically. So I went c all the way.

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