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Old Aug 13, 2010 | 6:48 am
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It looks like they are looking only at booking on the airline's own metal, not partner awards, or at least not partner awards that require a phone call vice web booking. My understanding is that the people who sing the praises of US are doing so mostly because of relative ease and flexibility of *A awards on US.
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