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Old Sep 30, 2007 | 9:30 pm
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Originally Posted by alect
I know this isn't exactly statistical, but on a recent quest for 2 J awards for my parents MEL-ARN..LHR-MEL I looked at both *A and OW. I could not find anything on *A for anywhere near the dates we needed (330 days out). On OW I found several options for several dates around those need. I ended up with a routing which qualified for the AAdv Partner SWP-EUR return award at 120k each (the other options were all OW130C awards at 130k each). MEL-SYD-BKK-HEL-ARN...LHR-NRT-SYD-MEL using QF/BA/AY/JL. Excellent value. Apparently a similar award using my LH miles would have been 280k each.
Exactly !

The oneWorld awards are a piece of its own and any *A/SkyTeam award is no competition for these. Even though they are not available in all OW programms.

However, the only valuable option with Miles & More is the Companion award in C/F, especially when living out of germany where no extra miles promotions exist (since this month even the BoA credit card is cancelled)... The "enhancements" of M&L hurt the programm and I will definetely use my miles for these awards as long as I have SEN status with LH.
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