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Old May 12, 2012 | 8:57 pm
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Originally Posted by 123dd
Yes, but given BR is joining *A, why would UA bother with all the cost of integrating with BR's reward booking system at this stage outside *A's platform? They will get it through *A anyways.
It is always funny when comments that sound firm and authoratative turn out to be baseless

UA now uses CO's system and CO members have been able to redeem miles on BR for years. Even when the mileage deal ended 12/31/2011, the redemption continued.

As others mentioned, there is a Houston-based EVA and Round-the-World booking desk at UA. The redemption rate is different from the rest of UA's chart. The agent told me that it does take some work to find availability and the award chart is not good - it costs more and it cannot be combined with UA flights (e.g. TPE-LAX-DEN will require 1 award on BR and 1 award on UA).

Someone on the "Other Asian Airlines...." board said that the rumor is that UA will soon align the EVA award chart with the rest as UA did with Qatar.
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