Originally Posted by
alaskan9974
RT from my location to Boston or Honolulu is typically 20 or 27.5k miles OW on the Alaska site. I will check on the AA site, I was at the BA site trying to figure out how you guys were seeing the flights. Thanks
Be aware BA does not price the same as either AA or AS.
BA is a DISTANCE-based system by segments. It use Distance Band not the actual distance. So if a segment just go over a few miles of the lower band it would be priced at the higher band's price.
You need to learn more on how BA AVios work to figure out if it is worth it to transfer your UR pts to BA avios because the transfer is one-direction, cannot be reversed.
This is NOT fool-proof because it does not include all the possible routings between 2 City pairs - it is up to YOU Yourself to make sure that, but can be a start:
http://wandr.me/Avios-Calculator.aspx