<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by marksec:
Sorry but I am confused. Last year when I was looking to use OWE miles (from my AA account) from JNB, I was told that I had to change in LHR becuase I could not use BA on LHR to JFK - was I given wrong info from AA?</font>
I think the thing we're confused about is your use of "OWE". OWE means One World Explorer, which is a continents based
REVENUE Round-The-World ticket on the Oneworld alliance. You seems to be using the Oneworld Rewards, which is a milage based
REWARD ticket on the Oneworld alliance. If you're using
AA POINTS, you cannot fly across the Atlantic on BA.
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Further, does the $2900 surcharge in premium from J to Concorde apply to both a paying ticket and an award ticket (including an upgrade from the back?)</font>
The $2900 only applies to
REVENUE OWE RTW tickets.
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">When trying to book my OWE last year I told that I had to use three different one world carriers - I am assuming that this in not an AA requirement but a OWE?</font>
Correct, but once again, it is not a OWE, but you're thinking of a Oneworld
REWARD ticket that happens to round the world, you don't have to. Actually, the restriction from a AA FFP point of view is that you have to fly at least two other Oneworld airlines in addition to AA in order to the use the milage based Oneworld reward.