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Oct 26, 2014, 6:41 am

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Originally Posted by Swiss Tony

If I'm not mistaken, using BA miles would also mean having to split the ticket so lose the accompanying protections. If you combine two partners on a ticket, the metrics change again (the award becomes mileage based) and I think it's usually even worse value...

http://www.britishairways.com/travel...e/public/en_gb

I'm not sure but I suspect it's distance flown, rather than the distance from A to B..

You're right about the higher, multi-partner redemption rate, but if the OP were to book only AA and CX flights, AA guarantees protection in the event of IRROPS, even on separate tickets:

http://www.aa.com/i18n/agency/Bookin...tkt_policy.jsp

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