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Old Jul 1, 2015 | 12:02 pm
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dukerau
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Originally Posted by IADFlyer123
Maldives has great connectivity through Istanbul on Turkish, Chennai or Banglore on Air India and Vienna on Austrian. All of them are *A partners. so if you do find some space on these partner airlines, transferring points to United Mileage Plus would be your best bet IMO. AA can get you to Europe, but you are SOL after that unless you find space on Qatar or Etihad.
Another option with AA is to fly on CX or JL to CMB, then use 4.5K BA Avios each for CMB-MLE. CMB is in the Asia 2 region, so it is cheaper than flying to MLE (which can't be done on a single award by flying through Asia 1 or 2 - have to fly through Middle East). You can get to CMB for 55K in J or 67.5K in F, while flying to MLE on Etihad or Qatar will cost you 67.5K in J or 90K in F. I'm assuming premium cabin is desired based on the babymoon aspect, which people often want to do up fancy. Also Maldives. Has to be fancy .
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