Originally Posted by
qofmiwok
OK, so let's focus on flights that DON'T go through London. I read posts about people going to Asia and South America and places like that using these free tickets (so the flights must be BA only) and not going through London so they don't get the crazy fees. But everything I put in the routing from the US goes through London. (I tried SFO, LAX and NYC)
To the best of my knowledge there are no BA metal flights from the USA to Asia and south America that don't route you through London.
Have a re-read of my previous post, if you don't want to use a companion voucher you can use avios on any OW airline, AA, CX, JL, LAN etc.
The voucher is where you are coming unstuck as this requires you to be on a BA aircraft
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