Thanks, Toshbaf.

Norfolk is my airport of convenience now. B6 flies to Richmond (its closest city to me), but that’s a lot farther than ORF (which is 15-20 minutes away). AS flies to the DC area, I think, 4 hours away.

Would not have enough AS miles after this EK trip for a one-way AA ticket, so would take more travel - but not sure when that might be.

i do at least have several cities served by B6 for which I could make use of a ticket on them. The downside is having to drive past both ORF and PHF to get to RIC (that, and having to pay for parking!)