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Old Aug 7, 2012 | 8:59 pm
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Originally Posted by mikelat
There is no way around the published mileage requirements for award tickets. The only option you may have is in stringing 2 trips together. For example on AA you could do a one-way US->South America (30k or 50k in J) and then a South America -> Europe (55k or 70k mi in J) and then a Europe->US (50k in J). That'd be a total of 155k (or 170 k) for the two trips instead of ~200k for two separate trips. Other than combining, not much you can do on AA/Oneworld to reduce the miles required.
I don't want to do the two trips back to back, though. Is it possible to use stopover rules (I think UA may have some generous stopover rules as well?) to facilitate this? For example, fly NYC to LIM (or wherever), and have my stopover in NYC for a few months, and then continue on later to Europe?
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