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Mar 24, 2014 | 1:22 am

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Originally Posted by Diabo

Some things change end of this month/year:

US Airways ditches Star Alliance for OneWorld end of this month.
That's bad news for most europeans, 'cos your US Airways miles will no longer work on Lufthansa, Swiss, and TAP. You get overpriced BA awards with London Deathrow in return. And Iberia, but who wants to fly with them?
Doesn't sound good for asians either: Cathay Pacific instead of Singapore Airlines...

Uh, actually, CX has MUCH better partner availability than SQ (especially in premium classes, where SQ is impossible to get with US miles). So that is good news. TG being swapped for MH is probably a wash. What probably hurts is losing CA/OZ/NH for JL/CX for North Asia, though not as much as having BA swapped in for LH.

Then again, a lot of people are buying their US miles anyways... and LH/LX F was impossible to get, LH C was difficult. BA FC won't be, so which is better, a cheaper F you can never fly, or a more expensive F cabin that it's actually possible to fly?

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