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Apr 18, 2008 | 8:17 am

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jgold

Join Date: Jul 2005

Programs: Starwood Gold née Platinum; AA Plat.

Posts: 483

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Originally Posted by jbalmuth

I don't know if you have any BA miles, but they permit one-way awards at half the RT mileage...without regard to which OW airline you're using....

Yes indeed! That actually works great, and I've now cancelled my AA reservation (60,000 one-way), and switched to the same flight for 20,000 BA miles. (Although I don't have any BA miles--and didn't even have a BA account until an hour ago--I do have about 100,000 Starwood points, which means this only costs me 35,000 SPG points, including the 5,000 bonus for transferring points.) 40,000 BA points (i.e., 35,000 SPG points) vs. 120,000 AA points. Thanks!

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