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Old Apr 12, 2012 | 1:48 am
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Originally Posted by paulfoel
Is this even possible? i.e. Use award for outward leg and pay cash for return?

Or would I need a totally separate ticket? i.e either expensive one way or return (to use other portion again or throwaway ;-)

For instance, if I used my miles to book a business flight going out, could I then pay cash for an economy coming back?
you need two separate one-way tickets.

You can buy a roundtrip economy and upgrade with miles, but that will probably require a hefty copay, so might not be ideal.
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