Originally Posted by steveholt

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- The best award availability with your points would likely be with Virgin Atlantic, which offers business flights from the US to LHR for as low as 24K points per person (as an example, I'm seeing that price from MCO to LHR on 5/8). You can stop in London and then continue on to Paris using British Airways miles for relatively cheap. There's also a few hundred dollars in fees, though.