Originally Posted by
Preacher7
It's too bad it's over. US becoming AA miles are so easy to use for the world's best F redemptions. I hope many of you got in on the transfer, which I've encouraged you to do here multiple times over the past few months. When you're flying in your first class apartment on Etihad from LHR to AUH, you'll be glad you made that transfer!
Yeah - availability on CX and JL is amazing far out, possible with some flexibility during the year and also good close to departure. No change fees for dates or routing which is SO much better than Aeroplan's $90+tax. They're also pretty generous with cancels/redeposits - I've been able to get the $150 fee waived after waiting for "insignificant" 5 or 10 minute changes.
Even without the USDM transition, I converted to more than 350,000 AA miles through Esso Extra and Avion.