Originally Posted by
upandup
Interested in flights from the US to Europe, Asia, and the middle east. I do almost all of my domestic travel on Southwest and haven't been able to determine whether building up my AA or BA account is a better bet for those TATL trips
BA has 1.25miles/$. ^
BA has really high YQ on long haul international flights with BA.
BA has expensive redemptions for F & C.
BA has a better stopover rule.^
BA miles redemption on more than 1 partner airlines is more expensive.
BA FA's have bad teeth
j/k
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AA is less strict on their amount of miles redemption for F & C. ^
AA has no YQ. ^
AA doesn't have as good of a stopover rule.
AA offers lower mile redemptions through off-peak travel.^
AA allows several partner airline travel at very reasonable miles redemption, through their AA All Airline Awards. ^