Silly Question- One way or return?
 

This is probably stupid but on most award charts, is the number of miles required for a return trip, or do I have to multiply that number by two to get the return price?

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In most cases it's a return trip, the ones for one way travel will be clearly identified as a one way award or whatever.

Upgrades though are usually listed as one way, not round trip.

Varies from airline to airline, depending mostly on airline policy for one-way awards. Airlines that offer one-way awards, such as AA, usually list the one-way mileage. You need to get two for a round trip. Those that don't usually list the miles for a round trip. A few may list both, if they offer one-way awards for less than the round-trip requirement, but more than half of it.

which airline are you looking at????

US Airways and American.

For AA:

aa.com gives AA and All-Airline (partner) award requirements for one-way travel.

OneWorld Award mileage requirements are based on total trip mileage. How this breaks down in terms of "one-way" or "round trip" concepts is irrelevant.

Hopefully someone familiar with US can fill in that part for you.

Round trip. (Or, at least I hope so: domestic coach tickets cost 25,000-60,000.)

Surely the experts around here guessed that the confusion was due to having tried to compare AA's chart to somebody else's. (Yes, I know, they're not the only ones.)

AA's chart says

ONE-WAY AWARDS ON AMERICAN AIRLINES, AMERICAN EAGLE AND AMERICANCONNECTION
AWARDS MAY BE USED ONE WAY OR COMBINED FOR ROUND-TRIP OR MULTI-CITY TRAVEL


across the top of it (no I'm not shouting, it's in upper case)

US Air says Roundtrip destinations on the top of their chart

I could get any idea about this one-way and return. Can anyone help me to get this.

I'm not sure what you're asking here, but basically you can tell whether the chart is one-way or return (also known as round-trip) by looking at the top of the chart.