Originally Posted by
3Cforme
Lots of people here might pair a one-way award with a round-trip purchase.
Originally Posted by
teemuflyer
Can you elaborate what you mean by that? I'm trying to do a round trip flight, but use award miles on one of the directions and purchase the other direction.
Think about it. Some people occasionally (but not too often) might do a one-way award (AUS-HEL) and then also occasionally (but not to often) purchase a round-trip ticket (HEL-AUS-HEL) because they "know they will fall in love with HEL and will want to go back". But occasionally (but not too often), those same people wake up late on the day of the return AUS-HEL flight and miss their flight.