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Old Mar 25, 2024 | 2:27 pm
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Originally Posted by tth6133
AA routing rules prohibit transiting a third region when traveling from one region to another, with a very limited set of exceptions. This isn't one of the exceptions. In another words, the flight from BKK (which is in Asia region 2, based on AA definition) to US via the Middle East region will be priced as 2 separate awards.
That's correct; but if you can get partner carriers on each award, you will pay a total of just 110,000 AA miles in Business. Not as cheap as a single 70,000-mile award connecting in Asia, but not three times the cost of such an award, as the OP initially claimed.
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