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Old Jul 26, 2010 | 7:39 pm
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Welcome to FT!

For starters, AA is part of OW and UA is part of Star Alliance.

I would suggest you wander over to the thread on SPG credit cards here in the Milesbuzz section. Between your husband and yourself you can rack up some serious points that will transfer over to several airlines with a nice bonus.

It wouldn't be hard to rack up 40K SPG points per person, transfer that to 50K AA miles and each of you would have 1/2 of a Biz class ticket.

Originally Posted by k_malm
I have a love of international travel and was recently turned onto travel hack and flyertalk. Thanks everyone for all you do!

My question: I would like to fly at least BC from BOI to ARN next summer with my husband. I currently have around 38K Alaska miles and 20K US Dividend miles (and am Silver status). I have seen lots of ways to generate miles, but don't know which plan to focus on - One World or Star Alliance. Or, should I drop those two plans and switch to AA and UA?
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