Thanks for the feedback
Originally Posted by
Gardyloo
you don't (a) indicate where you'd be going to use them.
Immediate plans; Round-trip North America to Caribbean in coach.
Originally Posted by
Gardyloo
(b) you don't indicate what future plans you might have where either source could be used.
Immediate plans; Round-trip North America to Caribbean in coach.
Future: No set future plans. Most likely to Caribbean, S. America, & Europe. (in that order).
Since I have no set plans
I favor saving AA miles because (using BA miles)
(a) Flexibility of double mileage AAwards – if I want a trip to the Caribbean for new years all the BA miles in the world won’t get me a ticket if I didn’t book it at 3XX days out.
(b) No (current) fuel surcharges – If I do decide to hop over the pond or head to Australia (even though I have no current plans to), it’s nice to know I won’t have to work over additional miles.
(c) BA sometimes adds mysterious additional taxes to AA flights
I favor using AA miles because:
(d) Why spend 17% more miles than I have to? (35k BA miles vs 30k BA miles)
=> If LAN doesn’t
add an award fuel surcharge (like they may) most my flying would be on LAN or AA, so why spend the extra miles?
(e) BA allows stopovers outside of North America