Originally Posted by
jerry a. laska
You can't combine AA and BA mileage to issue an award if that is what you are asking. Otherwise it is just like redeeming for a JFK-LHR award with AA miles and a separate JFK-LHR award with BA miles. If successful you will end up with two separate unlinked tickets.
Right, let me give an example. I know that I can't do this:
Award requires 150,000 miles. Trying to use 75,000 AA miles and 75,000 BA miles to book the flight would not work.
But I should be fine doing this:
Award requires 150,000 miles, and I want to buy two of them. AA account has 200,000 miles and BA account has 200,000 miles. They are separate accounts, and separate tickets/itineraries shouldn't be an issue.
I do have enough in my BA household account and in my individual AA account to cover each ticket separately. And it sounds like you are saying that is no problem.
When I book them, can I link them together afterwards, or include them on the same itinerary/trip locator? We want to travel together, and not have to deal with worrying if one of us gets a flight and the other doesn't. Does that make sense, or am I worrying about something that I don't need to be concerned with?