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Old May 11, 2016 | 10:57 am
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tom911
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Originally Posted by bballdad175
8. What are your preferred airlines, if any?
>>> Reply: Although I am UA FFP member, I much prefer any non USA airline for transatlantic/pacific flights!
UA to Europe is terrible compared to Lufthansa/Swiss Air, etc. But I do like the E+ seating and assigned seat.
AA may not be your best option from SFO with their current program before they go revenue based. Buying deep discount economy on Cathay brings in zero miles as one example. If you bought the AA codeshare you'd get full miles, but you'd pay several hundred dollars more in my experience.

I don't have a handle on the new AA revenue based program that's coming in the fall to really address how partner travel falls into that.
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