Originally Posted by
jatink129
Thanks.
I went ahead and booked this.
For the way back, I'm considering Avios LHR-CDG and ANA for CDG-EWR
OR
ANA for Birmingham-Hartford that bypasses LHR completely. Informed that I can't do a oneway on ANA. Now what?
But you can often get around that restriction by addinig a small flight from your nearest neighbor to home. Shorts flights like YVR-SEA can be really handy to get around the return to originating country rule in the ANA program.
In a little more detail: ANA allows tickets of the form www-xxx, yyy-zzz as long as www and zzz are in the same country (and perhaps yyy-zzz is crossing a border). If you want a one-way, then book a nice long www-xxx segment and the shortest/cheapest yyy-zzz segment you can find.