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Old Sep 21, 1999 | 12:33 pm
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This will require four nights (3 in Europe and 1 in Canada) for those in the Northeast.

Cost around $1113 + (CP airfare).

Thursday morning
JFK LHR AA M fare $438.15

Friday morning
LHR MAD IB N fare $209.08
MAD AMS IB N fare $177.96

Saturday morning
AMS MAN CX K fare (more on this later) $288.32

Sunday morning
MAN LHR BA M fare (more on this later)
LHR JFK AA M fare

K fares on CX do not earn AAdvantage miles. However, I spoke with AAdvantage on two seperate occasions and was informed that you'll get credit for flying on a oneWorld carrier regardless of whether the booking code you are in earn miles as long as the flight is ticketed and operated by oneWorld carriers. As in my previous message, I'll appreciate if someone else confirms this fact.

M fare in BA is in conjunction with the AA transatlantic segment. Basically, this is an open-jaw ticket priced with the following flights:

JFK-LHR AA
MAN-LHR BA
LHR-JFK AA

MAN-LHR has to be priced as a connection with LHR-JFK in order for this work.

So, AA, BA, CX, IB will net 4. You can take a side trip to Canada on CP at your leisure.

Note: This itinerary involves throwing away the tickets for three segments since both IB segments and the CX segments are priced as RT.

[This message has been edited by seawolf (edited 09-21-1999).]

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