Look and Learn
 

Look and Learn

"Boy, my last column proved to be quite popular with many of you, especially those of you learning of the changes to Marriott Rewards and how to save points. What better way to help more of you than to learn from others questions? Here's this week's interesting questions and my answers, including more on Marriott.

Dear Randy,
How can I combine my US Airways miles into my American AAdvantage miles account? AA says this can be done until August 24, 2001..."

Randy Petersen

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In that column Randy said that you can take the Marriott 713 award as miles on BA, but all the information we ever accumulated stated that the BA award was a coupon for specific US gateways to Europe, and that travel to the gateway city was excluded.

With the new awards structure, BA is miles. With the old one, it was a coupon as far as we could tell.

There's a chart I put together based on a very long thread in the Marriott forum containing some of the old 713 information we accumulated: http://www.flex.com/~dmk/marriott

-David