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Old Sep 14, 2011 | 2:17 pm
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aubreyfromwheaton
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Join Date: Jun 2010
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OW rant/frustration and ST comparison

Getting frustrated with OW.

(LOVING DELTA MORE AND MORE EACH DAY)

BA.com is horrible, buggy.

Finding classic awards on lan.com that don't correlate to award space with BA miles (sometimes)

Depends on rep, some will search LAN argentina space some won't.

"LAN ARGENTINA IS LAN CHILE's PARTNER, IT'S NOT OUR FIRST PRIORITY IN OUR SEARCHES"

oh really?

Then I don't even know if they are making it up sometimes.

Then I try to do a one way Intra S Amer award using AA miles.

AA rep says nothing available.

LAN.com says 10k km for the award, so it's at the classic level.

I don't care if it's LAN that doesn't release the inventory, BA which doesn't see or doesn't allow the booking or AA that doesn't see/allow the booking,

I'M FRUSTRATED.

There is no clear rhyme or reason to any of this.

At least with SkyTeam using Skymiles, the rules are pretty straightforward, if it's a low award on a partner, you can book it. You don't get unlimited stopovers and the award calendar is horrible.

BUT, you can actually find the partner availability. And by searching one ways you can find low awards on Delta.

So I really regret taking the bait and switch of the 50% AMEX deal. I should have just shipped 200K Amex for the 67% DL offer...

OK rant over.

Thanks

P.S. YQ is evil and super mean
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