I don't know about all partner airlines, but you can certainly redeem for a one-way continental U.S. award for 12,500 miles in coach. And you can make one or more en route stopovers -- over the most direct route between origin and destination -- free of charge.

Thank you for your prompt response!

I believe this will make BA miles extremely valuable when it comes to US domestic travel.

:confused: Extremely valuable for domestic US?? Not at all, especially when compared to intercontinental flight redemptions.

Of course, you might have different opinion, but 12,500 miles for two or three segments, which would normally cost $400-500, is a good value to me.

It will depend if your FFP allow this. Only a few FFP do. So you have to check it with your airline programme yourself.. and whether stopovers are allowed too.

It all depends on one's own needs and preferences on travel destinations and the way to travel.

To some, a domestic trip that allows them to visit families in different cities would be worth it as it saves $400 to $500 out of pocket money.

To some, an international trip to far flung places that would cost thousands while requires 4x more miles may be worth more to them as otherwise they may not be able to go.

To some, an international longhaul trip that is 14+ hours long in business class or first class would cost over $10K while costs 100K miles would be the best value to them. Even though this group may never pay the out of pocket to travel in premium cabins but it is very nice to be able to do that using miles while paying real money for the trivia expenses domestic travels in coach which are fine because the distances are relatively short.

I assume the OP is talking about BA as AA clearly does not allow any stopover for domestic award ever since it goes one-way chart May of 2009.

My understand of BA program is you are only allowed to claim one-way award on BA metal, not on partners. I may be wrong on that though.

Yes, I was asking this question, exactly because of the rule you just mentioned. So, it's not quite set in stone that BA allows one-way award on almost all of its partner airlines, not to mention en-route stop-overs on those flights. :confused:

You can have stop-overs on the most direct route - that is included in the rules.

For example if you go from JFK to SFO via ORD or DFW or SLC or even LAX, that should be allowed. However you probably cannot go JFK-MIA-DFW-SFO when JFK-DFW-SFO is a more direct route and has award seats.

You would be better off to call BAEC about the one-way redemption on partner flights. The conditions say it is allowed on BA flights only.

I just logged into my BAEC account and did a test booking. AA JFK-LAX in coach, one way, came to 12,500 miles. If you want en route stopovers on this route, you have to call BAEC customer service to make the booking.

I've redeemed one way awards on CX and QF so far using my BA miles. On the QF award, I also have a stopover.

This is very good to know that even though it is not a published rule but in practice BAEC treats the partner award the same way as BA only award to allow one-way redemption.

Good to know.^^

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I didnt' have a problem redeeming BA miles one way inter-U.S. and flying back from another location, so creating an open jaw. They booked AA flights for 25,000 miles total for my segments +$5 in taxes (per ticket), that was it.

Thank you Chase BA promo of 2009!

Best,

PedroNY

Yes, using BA miles on AA seems to be a pretty great deal in many cases... can effectively go anywhere (pending availability) on relatively short notice for $2.50. Since many of us are going to end up with 2.5k orphan miles after we hit our 2k spend requirement and subsequently redeem 100k miles, it might not be a bad idea to try to accrue an additional 10k miles in order to have a last minute domestic redemption option in our war chests.