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Old Dec 17, 2015 | 9:09 pm
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Originally Posted by jridge
It is quite relevant to those spending AAdvantage pesos, because there is a YQ surcharge for awards involving BA, and a much lower YQ for IB. Not so important for paid tickets.
Yes you are quite right

I was solely focussed on the possible YQ effect on paid tickets - specifically Oneworld Explorer tickets

But for AA award tickets the effect would be significant - pay the nominal YQ AA collects for IB flights vs the hefty YQ it collects for BA flights
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