combine ff miles from different programs?
Sep 9, 2010 | 8:15 pm
#1
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Michigan
Programs: AA, BA, SPG, FFFWP
Posts: 171
combine ff miles from different programs?
Is it somehow possible to combine FF miles from different programs for a One World award ticket? I have miles in AA and British Airways-BA only does roundtrip awards and I am short on BA miles. Short with AA as well.
Sep 9, 2010 | 11:09 pm
#2
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: ORD
Programs: HH Diamond, Hyatt Globalist, Bonvoy Platinum
Posts: 1,028
you can not combine from separate programs. you can swap at points.com but most likely not worth the fees.
Sep 10, 2010 | 8:33 am
#3
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Location: New York, NY, USA
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http://www.webflyer.com/programs/mileage_converter/
Sep 10, 2010 | 8:49 am
#4
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: NCL and LBA
Programs: BD*G, BAGold, Hyatt Diamond, SPG Plat
Posts: 3,419
Actually BA does one-way awards both on its own metal and on its partner's metal. One-way awards cost only half the number of miles with BA so just book one-way with your BA miles and the other with AA ^
Sep 11, 2010 | 9:45 pm
#6
Join Date: May 2010
Location: PA
Programs: AA Gold Member, Hertz Gold Member
Posts: 28
Is it true that airlines don't always honor miles that weren't earned by the respective flyer? For example, if I were to purchase 50,000 miles from someone, could they not honor them?
Sep 11, 2010 | 10:36 pm
#7
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: used to be PER, now it's nowhere/eveywhere
Programs: QFF NB, AA GLD
Posts: 3,687
For example - QF's prgrams allows the purchase of award flights and transfer of points to family members only; while AA's program allows a member to purchase an award flight for anybody
So, if you have purchased miles in a program from a member of that program, then (in the cases of QF and AA at least) if the airline found out about this, it might well cancel those miles since the member breached the program rules by selling them.