Originally Posted by
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Currently United miles are useless for flying to/from Australia to Asia unless you book really close in. They raised the redemption rates and then killed the availability.
As someone else posted, it's not the airline whose miles you are using but the airline you're flying with that determines the availability. Untied seems to have a significant problem with its reservations systems which for a couple of months couldn't connect with either TG or SQ redemptions and still can't connect with SQ redemptions. Europe redemptions are the same - I can't find a Europe/Australia J redemption that isn't with Air India (waste of points) or Air China (almost ditto) for one or more legs at any time of any month