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Originally Posted by drbobguy (Post 16772736)

Yeah this is an insanely good redemption. 27k MR points for a trip to multiple South American capitals and a jaunt to a famous remote pacific island.

can you get down to rio with the same redemption or is that a different bucket?
[edit] nevermind answered that one for myself.

So if you use BA award to fly, say BOS-MAD non-stop on IBeria, would you still pay the BA fuel fees?

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Originally Posted by chernomorez

So if you use BA award to fly, say BOS-MAD non-stop on IBeria, would you still pay the BA fuel fees?

Yes; but if you redeem BA miles for BOS-DUB-MAD (with or without a stopover in DUB) on Aer Lingus, fees should be lower.

I had this dilemma a couple weeks ago.. But with the BA 50% bonus, I went scouring for available space on a South American trip with LAN. Found it all with stopovers, called up to go through the process and transferred the MR into BA while on the phone.

Then the wife ran into my office shouting about landing a new teaching job and while that's awesome, my heart sank. We're not going to South America this fall. At least I hadn't already paid for the award so no cancel fee to pay. Ah well, they'll still get put to use next year. I may just go for another companion certificate instead too.

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Originally Posted by drbobguy (Post 16772736)

Yeah this is an insanely good redemption. 27k MR points for a trip to multiple South American capitals and a jaunt to a famous remote pacific island.

OR 54K for Business- still very damn good

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Originally Posted by phonehome (Post 16772008)

A huge advantage of BA is that you can stop anywhere along the way (though you can only use 1 airline per booking, which usually means you can only stop at that airline's hub). Another big advantage is that you can book roundtrip awards as two stopovers. I recently booked ORD-HKG-TPE on Cathay and TPE-KIX-NRT-ORD on JAL. This cost me 75k for Cathay (1st class) and 50k for JAL (business). Being able to mix classes in this way is itself pretty good. But the overall mileage cost was itself really good. A round trip in business would be 100k, which means 67k MR points. The same trip with CO would've cost you 120k MR points!

Good point on the MR conversion rates. The OP said they typically fly Y, so piggybacking off of phonehome's example it would be:
(MR/BA : MR/CO) - US to/from North & South Asia, each way
17/25+YQ : 33/32.5 (Coach)
34/50+YQ : 60/60 (Business)
50/75+YQ : 70/70 (First)

If we assume YQ is $200 each way (I'm not sure if it varies by class of service), then "cost" for the additional AXP MR would be:
$200/(33k-17k)=1.25c/AXP MR
$200/(60k-34k)=0.08c/AXP MR
$200/(70k-50k)=1.00c/AXP MR

As phonehome pointed out, Biz is the best value as you're "buying AXP MR" (paying YQ to redeem less AXP MR) at less than a penny, while coach is the least valuable at 1.25c

The other day, ThePointsGuy posted that Air France/KLM was having an award sale to Europe for July/August. 25k/50k for Y/J round-trip!. They periodically have these sales, so you might want to save some MR points to xfer to them.:cool: