Originally Posted by
Blueskyheaven
Does it normally cost more miles with UA vs AA for this trip on any airlines? I see the Etihad has free bus service to Dubai for those who booked economy class, but what about for those on Biz class?
If I can't find any Etihad flights on BA site, then I can just do a search on United? I want to avoid UA flights and would prefer any partners airlines. But their partners cost more when booking J seats right? If we can't find any J seats, then coach will be fine. Might find ones that flies to DXB right?
AA partner award chart here:
https://www.aa.com/i18n/aadvantage-p...ward-chart.jsp
With AA miles, you could redeem on QR via DOH, RJ via AMM, or AY via HEL (but AY's ORD-HEL service and its HEL-DXB service are both seasonal, and I don't know if the two "seasons" overlap).
If you are willing to spend more miles, you could go the long way -- via HKG on CX -- but AA would require two awards for that routing, for a total of 110K miles per person one way in Business. You would, however, be able to stop over in HKG, if desired, since you would be traveling on two awards.
Going via the Atlantic on one of AA's other partners would be cheaper. (Review the partner award chart for details.)