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Old Aug 18, 2010 | 6:04 pm
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Originally Posted by CPRich
US and Delta at the bottom, and way below the next worst, is very consistent with other recent studies on the same topic.

The only plus for US, and one usually not accounted for, is *A awards with US miles. I've booked quite a few flights on US over the last few years, including Hawaii in the summer, on UA when neither US nor UA had them available with "native" miles.

For all those noting "without knowing the methodology", did you read the "Notes regarding reward query methodology:" on page 4? It's not completely exhaustive, but some of it is there. While they did search partner availability, it was only done on-line, which US doesn't offer.
Very true.

US's partner availability is quite nice, which makes Dividend Miles pretty useful. In my limited experience, Skyteam partner are not so generous for use of skymiles, so circumstances which mitigate trouble with DM is not so present with skymiles.
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