Originally Posted by
eponymous_coward
You'll get charged for a KE redemption one way and JL the other.
Yes but the point is that KE redemptions are round trip (ie, the number in the chart is the number of miles required for a round trip, unlike for other partners). However, if you use them as half of a round trip, you only get charged half. On the other hand, if you use them for a one-way, you get charged the full (round trip) amount.
The key point from the fine print on the award chart is:
One-way Korean Air award bookings are charged the same number of miles as round-trip travel. Korean Air flights, when used one-way in combination with Alaska Airlines or another partner airline to create a round-trip itinerary (routing restrictions apply), will be charged half the applicable Korean Air round-trip miles. If any part of a round-trip itinerary is flown on Korean Air, it becomes ineligible for any refund of the unflown portions.
This restriction can create issues (1) if you don't want a round trip (maybe you are doing a RTW or a circle trip, or maybe you want to reposition one-way to take advantage of a good fare) or (2) if you want to return on an airline that can't be combined with KE (I was told by a phone agent that CX had to be ticketed separately, and thus a one-way CX award could not be combined with a half-round-trip on KE). But combining with JL should be fine.