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Old Feb 14, 2013, 10:43 am
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dcAA
 
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Originally Posted by GUWonder
US will still be in Star Alliance this summer.



It's AA that charges the high fees on award tickets with BA flights, and AA likes it as is because it increases the revenue AA gets.
I'm not so sure that the award fee is going to AA--with the ATI, I think that BA may be getting some or all of the fee. But regardless, it doesn't really matter to me whether AA or BA gets the award fee for BA bookings; the result is the same: I will not book BA TATL awards.
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