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Old Oct 30, 2014 | 3:27 pm
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Originally Posted by olafman
I'm flying home from South Africa near spring and found lots of availability JNB-AUF-SFO.

AA does treat this as separate awards though. I paid 135K for J to AUH and F to SFO. This is still less miles that it would have cost me if I had used my Etihad Guest Miles.

The taxes were only $69 compared to the $775 in taxes I'm paying for the EK one way.
You might want to change that; the SFO is by Jet. Try a connection in JFK and get AA's 31B from there.
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