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Old Jan 4, 2012 | 5:17 am
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BAHumbug
 
Join Date: May 2005
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Originally Posted by crazyh1
1. under the US visa waiver programme you need evidence of a return ticket, I don't know if that needs to be part of a single booking. So if the outbound trip for my wife is done with AA and the return with BA, is that permitted by the TSA?

It does not need to be a single booking - I've travelled with 2 single tickets when redeeming. Just carry a copy of the return eTicket with you.

Originally Posted by crazyh1
2. If can't do the above, then could we use my AA miles to buy a return multi-city ticket but on BA metal and still guarantee that we are seated together?

I don't see why not.

Originally Posted by crazyh1
3. We would prefer to do part cash, part miles on the BA bits to travel in WT+ (I know that's not the most economical use of miles necessarily, but we only travel once or twice per year, so not an issue).

I would look at buying WT+ and upgrading to CW if you can stretch to it. I think you have enough miles to be able to do this.

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