Originally Posted by
JPG3392
Until 30 March, you can use your miles for award travel on US and its *A partners, as well as AA and its partners (with some limitations). Rules and regulations for such travel are determined by US. As of 31 March, US will join OW. From then on, you will no longer be able to use US miles for travel on *A (UA, LH, LX, OS etc.), but you will be able to book award travel on all OW airlines. Until AA and US merge their FF programs, however, your US miles must be used through their program, which is more restrictive than AA's program in many respects.
Thank you that explains a lot
Does anyone have a tip as to where to check OW carrier availability? e.g for *A and ANA account was perfect. Any free FF programs allow one to search for ones self to prepare an itinerary (So much quicker and more fun than relying on the DM agents who were for the most part useless)