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Aug 2, 2011 | 10:44 am

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jerry a. laska

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Originally Posted by rtw42012

I want to book OW RTW Award tickets for two passengers.

I have 208,000 AA miles and my wife and I each have 100,000 BA miles.

Is it possible for us to pool together the BA miles to buy one explorer ticket and buy the other using my AA miles and fly together on the same itinerary? By pooling in BA, we would have two separate programs, each with 200,000 miles which should be enough for the award.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

You can set up a household account with BA. Some details here:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/13303083-post12.html
You might want to ask a moderator to move this post to the BA forum for more advanced discussion about household accounts or do a search on that forum for others experience.

Theoretically what you propose is possible, one redemption with BA and one redemption with AA. Each program has different advance periods for booking award tickets so you might find some availability gone by the time you try to book with AA. Be aware when flying in premium classes on 2 or more oneworld airlines that BA requires more miles than AA.
See:
http://www.britishairways.com/travel...r/public/en_us
http://www.aa.com/i18n/AAdvantage/re...servations.jsp

Last edited by jerry a. laska; Aug 2, 2011 at 10:56 am

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