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Old Jan 9, 2012 | 11:58 am
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Originally Posted by HIDDY
Originally Posted by hrnt
There is a simple explanation for this: Because there were two different partners (not BA), this is treated as an oneworld award. HKG-SYD-HKG is 9161 miles, which falls into the 9001-10000 miles bracket, which is 70k for Y.

It is possible to get this award for 50k by doing two separate one-way bookings.
I thought all that had been done away with when the changes were made....obviously not.
It's all a bit daft really.
No, BA still offers oneworld awards. On some itineraries, a oneworld award might actually cost fewer Avios than a series of one-way awards. Unfortunately, when pricing a simple roundtrip that uses one partner on the outbound and another on the inbound, BA will automatically price it as a oneworld award, even if that comes out to be more expensive than two one-ways using a different partner for each of the two legs.
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