Ironically, if one lives near an AA hub, BA Avios are quite valuable for continental U.S. flights and stretch much further for many RT flights than AAdvantage miles. It gets dicey for non-hub airports, and I personally would find AA to be of better value. Since I live near several small, non-AA hub airports, yet within 4-5 hours of an AA hub, it's pretty much a tossup for me in terms of value.
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I think the most valuable combination is to hold a mix of UA and BA. Diversified across two alliances, with the BA focused mostly on short-haul and the UA focused mostly on long-haul/premium cabin.
Could swap another *A carrier for UA I suppose. But even though UA is getting beat up for crappy merger handling, I like the fact that I can easily look up and book one-way partner awards on United.com. The alliance is so dang big that I've had success recently booking desired awards, even for peak summer trips where AA and US (booked directly as an R/T fully on their metal) had nothing. |
Originally Posted by debwany24
(Post 18550210)
how do you guys book U.S. domestic economy flights on BA.com? I just tried multiple airports but I don't get anything available in the results. am I doing something wrong???
EDIT: Never mind, apparently I'm wrong on this. |
Originally Posted by aarif1
(Post 18550607)
I think you have to seach individual segments, you can't search an entire trip (i.e. if you want to fly BOS to SLC, you would search BOS-ORD and ORD-SLC separately).
EDIT: Never mind, apparently I'm wrong on this. |
If someone can find me a route on BA, I Will give them an incentive. Pm me.
I want to go from EWR or PHL to LAX (or somewehre in socal) on June 4th or 5th ONe way. I cant seem to find any. I am looking for J seating. Thank you. |
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Originally Posted by livestrongforever
If someone can find me a route on BA, I Will give them an incentive. Pm me.
I want to go from EWR or PHL to LAX (or somewehre in socal) on June 4th or 5th ONe way. I cant seem to find any. I am looking for J seating. Thank you. (There may be one or two AA flights from MIA to LAX on AA that offer three-class service, but your flight down to MIA would be in F or Y. There's also three-class service on AA's JFK-LAX flights.) Just go to aa.com, and do a series of searches for MileSAAver award flights from EWR/PHL to LAX/SNA/SAN. Include flights on AS in your award search. If no MileSAAver award seats come up, you're out of luck. |
get free lounge access with biz class ticket?
I just checked a round trip flight to delhi and saw a one way 60k business class saver mile and $100 fee or tax.
if i redeem united miles for United BusinessFirst ticket, do i get free lounge access and free checked bags? it is complimentry ? i checked the terms and it says Premier Access check-in, baggage handling, boarding, deplaning and security lanes (where available) Access to United Arrivals Lounge in select locations, offering showers, breakfast and business services Access to United ClubSM and Star Alliance® member lounges |
Originally Posted by jimmy1
(Post 18552038)
I just checked a round trip flight to delhi and saw a one way 60k business class saver mile and $100 fee or tax.
if i redeem united miles for United BusinessFirst ticket, do i get free lounge access and free checked bags? it is complimentry ? i checked the terms and it says Premier Access check-in, baggage handling, boarding, deplaning and security lanes (where available) Access to United Arrivals Lounge in select locations, offering showers, breakfast and business services Access to United ClubSM and Star Alliance® member lounges |
Originally Posted by jimmy1
(Post 18547094)
even with $25 fee, the rate is not gonna be about the same right?
for example it is only 15k BA avios vs 25k aa miles. How many different ways to ask the same question? Sometimes, you can book a flight on BA using fewer AA miles than it would cost you in Avios. No matter how badly you wish it were otherwise, there's nothing you can do about it. The end. There is no way to reduce the number of Avios it would cost just because you could book it for fewer AA miles. For example, to fly in F on BA from LHR to LAX will cost you 75,000 Avios. If you booked the same flight on AA.com using AA miles, it would cost you 62,500 miles if available. There is nothing you can do to make it only cost 62,500 Avios now matter how badly you wish it could be the case. Sometimes (often in fact), you can book a flight on AA using fewer Avios than it would cost you in AA miles. For example, to book a flight from MIA to NAS on AA, it will cost you 4,500 Avios if available, but if you book it using AA miles it will cost you 17,500 miles. There is no to make it work out that you can get the same trip by only using 4,500 AA miles. Zero. You can't do it by paying $25 or by transferring something, or by praying to airplane gods. Edit: Oops. I responded to a post you made on page 2 before I realized there were already 4 pages, saying the same thing I said. Sorry. I'd delete by my post took me a while to write, so I'm going to leave it. :0) |
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