You'll pick up the acronyms fairly quickly on FT (FlyerTalk). BAEC stands for British Airways Executive Club. Essentially what he is suggesting and it's good advice is that in the future should you fly American or any other oneworld alliance airlines, make sure that you give them your British Airways account so that you are building up the miles in that single account rather than adding to the existing accounts you have. The same is true with Delta. When flying them, make sure you give them your Northwest WorldPerks number. etc. The idea is to consolidate your future earnings.

I would suggest you not concern yourself with your past mileage balances. you have three main accounts and they are all in three different alliances (Star, oneworld and SkyTeam). While you could use the Mileage Converter on WebFlyer for pointers for converting some of your balances, it's likely you will not gain any significant advance toward your goal.

What i might suggest is you posting up some other programs you might participate in, such as MyPoints, Hilton HHonors, Starwood, Membership Rewards, etc. The purpsoe of this request is to get a larger picture of other exchanges and value you might have that are unmentioned.

As well, you might consider other things. For instance, you mention the expense of flying to London from Denver. With just a few more miles (7,000) you might have a solution to consider with your United miles. You could redeem 15,000 of them for a special 750-mile award from Denver to another airport with better fares to London or even Paris or Dublin (all cheap to get to London from). Then you could redeem another 10,000 United miles for a special offer they have coming up which allows you to redeem 10,000 miles for $100 off a United flight. Find a real cheap United fare from Dallas to London and try this method. It's not free but gives you at least another idea to consider.

There's more ideas to come.... will be back later.

And one little tip: you might consider removing your email address from your original post. Those pesky spammers will likely scrape this out and you'll have more useless email than you will know what to do with - no matter how good AOL's spam controls are. If a member needs to contact you they can do so with looking up your profile so posting the information is not necessary. Just a tip for better posting practices on FT.

Cheers,
Randy