Best use of a $200 American Airlines voucher from the UK?
Hi all,
On my recent LHR to CLT flight, there was an issue with the in-flight entertainment so I complained via Twitter and will receive a $200 American Airlines paper voucher.
This is great, except that I live in the UK so am trying to work out the best use of this voucher. I thought that I could redeem it on a BA flight within Europe but turns out the voucher can only be used on flights with an AA code, and AA does not operate any codeshare flights in Europe.
I also have about 30,000 or so BA miles. So I thought I could use both the miles and the voucher to subsidise a trip to NY for me and the missus, ie use the voucher to pay for half of a ticket, and the BA miles to pay for the other ticket, but given high taxes etc using miles to pay for a long-haul economy flight seems very poor value as you only get around of value £0.004 per mile.
Any ideas on how best use this voucher? I am open to any suggestions. I would hate to waste it!
Thanks,
R