Originally Posted by
guv1976
Sounds like you are flying AA in one direction, and US in the other. If you then price the itinerary as a single, roundtrip redemption, you will pay the much-higher redemption rates on BAEC's multi-partner redemption table.
Kind of strange because AA wouldn't have operated that route - any non-stops would have been on US anyway. Unless they were looking at an indirect routing via LAX / DFW / ORD which would have thrown the cost off away because of BA's weird sector pricing system?
Originally Posted by
guv1976
there may also be other flights available for redemption on AS, but for Avios redemptions on AS metal, you must call the BAEC Service Center. (You can easily check AS award availability on aa.com -- no log-in required.)
AS would have been my first choice. It's a relatively short flight so I would have taken the AS extra legroom seats which I think you would get gratis with a shiny BA card, and used the money on something useful.