Originally Posted by
eponymous_coward
I’d sincerely recommend you fly AY or AA if you want to do tier runs that maximize BA earning. AS simply doesn’t run their network in a way that makes a lot of this kind of stuff easy. They manage capacity and demand pretty well so usually they will NOT offer a lot of discounts on connecting itineraries (I’ve seen some exceptions where SEA-PDX/SFO/BOI-XXX prices better than SEA-XXX, but it’s not consistently so). the classic BA tier run to HNL on BA/AA isn’t really an AS thing I have noticed.
Agree totally. If doing one of the milk run flights is on the OP’s to do list, my recommendation is to do the BA segment run to get to SEA or ANC, then do the milk run on its own.