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Old Jun 18, 2023 | 12:02 pm
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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.
Through fares have pretty much dried up and pricing is approximately the summation of the segment fares. Everything through SEA to/from Canada was significantly cheaper than Canada to/from SEA. Recently, for a close in LAX-SEA-YVR, AS was asking $1042 in Main. Domestically there were a lot too. PHX-SEA-ORD was quite often $100. I did, however, book SJO-LAX-SEA-YVR in February for $368, definitely cheaper than the segments.

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