RJ

JFK-AMM, Y, one way

40000BA Miles
plus
$ 114.50

KA

HKG-PEK, C, one way

40000BA Miles!
plus
$ 25.46

5738 miles, more expensive than a domestic transcon on AA for similar distance but only costs 25K BA miles and a few dollars taxes.

1234 miles

expensive redemption in terms of miles traveled.

Shorthaul C is meaningless.

Long time lurker seeks strategy.

I am looking at IAD to TPE sometime this year. Somehow, even connect via partners my options are limited to CX to London-HKG-TPE. Is there a way for me to open up all available options, i.e. JFK-NRT-TPE via AA/JL

.... which may come with a booking fee if/when BA is sticking to this fee schedule:

http://www.britishairways.com/travel...l/public/en_us

yes, you need to start your trip from a CX or JL gateway airport (e.g., JFK or YYZ); neither flies to WAS

Help! Use AA to redeem BA miles?
 

After reading through the numerous posts I'm pretty confused. I have 102k BA miles and want to travel from CLT to FCO (Rome) in May of this year. I was all set to just use BA and have a 2 day stopover in London. I just checked and it's going to cost ~$660 in fees for 2 people + $95 per person = ~$840 for 2 "FREE" reward tickets.

I was planning to drive to ATL or DC for my departure airport and am fine with that. Is there a way I can transfer miles to AA or another airline and redeem the points without the crazy fees that BA charges?

Thanks,
Adam

this has been explained quite a few times in this thread. Unfortunately, for Europe awards you can't take AA. So you're pretty much stuck with BA. And nope you can't transfer. You could try to take aer lingus from JFK? Not sure how much luck you'll get with that.

Ex-NYC bookings to Asia are tricky on ba.com (in my limited experience) because the search engine REALLY wants you to connect in London.

In the JFK-TPE case, I'd be inclined to search for JFK-HKG and JFK-NRT standalone, and then look for onward connections separately. If you can find availability all the way through and ba.com still won't display complete itineraries, then you have a strong case for getting the phone fee waived.

BTW, I've noticed that JL availability has been been fantastic of late (yes, I understand why).

Yes exactly. The return flight I have no issues, it is JFK-TPE/IAD-TPE that's tripping me up because it wants me to connect in London. The only option I did find interesting is DCA-JFK-NRT-TPE via CX, 100k miles in economy, $147 in taxes.

"tricky" indeed :D

how does it let you add on the DCA-JFK segment? Doesn't that require more miles?

Don't know, wish I would've taken a screenshot of it when it popped up because now I can't replicate it...

Yes, it requires more miles (100k in Y, he said).

fangtl: What are your ideal dates? Class of service?

Ideal?
July 5 - July 24, if I can get those dates I'll take a seat in any class. I currently have 132k in ba miles.