$970 in "fees" for a economy award
 

Just was looking into a award from SEA to CPT.

For an economy ticket, miles required 90,000 and $970 in fees!!!

Jeeesh, I can buy a ticket for $1,500 with better connections (not on BA).

At least for now I can use my miles on partner AA for domestic flights.

Rule 1 - don't use BA Miles for Economy tickets

(For travel in November, BA is currently selling NYC tickets for £297. Or, of course, you could use 50,000 miles and pay £250 in taxes! 50,000 miles to save £47 is possibly some sort of record.)

BA miles are normally best used for upgrades. The only time I would buy an economy ticket with them is if I needed the ability to cancel the ticket.

Just arranged a Twice Around the World Northern Hemisphere First Class ticket using 330,000 AAdvantage Points, Total 62,000 miles, 16 sectors BA/JL/AA/CX and Qantas..Total Taxes ONLY $405..and $148 of that was APD for my LHR Stopover.

Gotta Luv AAmerican AAdvantage:D

Wow! Think I am in the wrong FF program :(

True. At first, miles plus cash to sit in Y within Europe seems like madness to the FTer. But £240 for no changes or refunds to BEG, say, and double that for Flex then suddenly £100 plus 10k miles and ability to change or cancel (for a fee) seems a fair deal in these straitened times.

PS..Hoping my LHR-SIN flight with QF in July 2009 will Aircraft Change to an A380^

I was charged around $700(CDN) last month when I used my asiamiles points for j class for YVR - LHR.