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Dec 30, 2014 | 6:16 pm

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TomA

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Originally Posted by Gardyloo

AA challenges (Gold, Platinum) require flights using AA, BA, IB, AY, JL, QF or US flight numbers. CX is notably missing.

Depending on your domestic travels, you might also look at Alaska Airlines, which partners with most Oneworld and several Skyteam airlines. AS' program and redemption options are quite good.

Edited to add - Given your apparent travel patterns, I might suggest you look at Oneworld's Circle Pacific fares ex-HKG. For the time being, a business class 22,000 mile DCIR22 (e.g. HKG-DFW-SYD-HKG) is US$5K and a 26,000 mile DCIR26 (e.g. HKG-ORD-TPA-LAX-SYD-BKK-HKG) is around $1000 more. Depending on your travel frequency, might be a good deal.

Thanks for the advice. I'll check into that Circle Pacific thing. I do almost no domestic flying at all (the segments you see are mostly international connections) and am based in FL. I wonder if AK would be helpful in that case?

Regarding CX: I was only thinking that if I do an Executive Platinum challenge, then I should also credit the CX miles to AA because even though they don't count for the challenge, they would count for renewal the following year.

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