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Old May 5, 2025 | 1:04 pm
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Originally Posted by ashill
AA and BA are part of a revenue sharing joint venture, so any TATL revenue AA collects is shared with BA and vice versa (I believe on a basis pro-rated based on each airline’s TATL capacity, but not sure about the details). AS is not part of that joint venture.
So how is it that CX (not part of the TATL JV) has considerably lower fees on a BA TATL award booked using CX Asiamiles ex-USA than either AA or AS?

(note that this doesn't apply the same way ex-UK/EU, the YR on award tickets goes down quite a lot)

I would also suggest comparing round trip pricing if you book:

USA-UK/EU-USA
UK/EU-USA-UK/EU

For instance, the first screenshot is booked as the return on an AMS-PDX-AMS round trip. The second as a one way, same date, flights and class of service PDX-AMS.





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