Where can I find OW Mileage Based Award Rules
 

I am trying to plan a trip using BA miles for a OW award ticket. Where can I find the rules for ticketing. My itinerary would be Fort Lauderdale to Los Angles to Sydney (Stopover) Sydney to Alice Springs (Stopover) Alice Springs to Sydney (stopover) Auckland to Los Angeles (stopover) Los Angeles to Fort Lauderdale
Can anyone tell me if this can be done on a OW ticket? and how many BA Award miles I would need in Business Class (the only segments I could confirm outbound in Business Class were the Fort Lauderdale to Los Angeles (AA) to Los Angeles to Sydney (Qantas) (returning segments in Business Class were only Auckland to Sydney (Qantas)and Los Angeles to Fort Lauderdale (AA)...everything else only had availability in Coach. Thank you, thank you, from a "newbie" to all this..I have spent about 3 days on the phone trying to get a straight answer - but no one seems to be able to tell me exactly how to ticket this. I have all these above segments confirmed and being eld for ticketing, except the final leg home - Los Angeles to Fort Lauderdale - date not in AA computer yet.

It's an OW award that you are after which you will have to book through BA EC. It's mileage-based (at or above 10k miles, in increments of 5k) as to how far you can fly. Not sure if connecting airports are factored in. You have to use 2 other OW carriers other than the one you have miles on so you can easily do this by flying AA and QF.

Stops may be limited and you can stopover (24 hrs or more) at each airport only once. The double SYD stop may be a problem.

FWIW, I used 150k miles to fly YVR-(HKG)-(BKK)-MEL-LST-(MEL)-SYD-ARM-(SYD)-HKG-NRT-YVR in BC. I think it was a 25k mile award. Managed to get BC seats just 3-4 weeks out but this was in January.

Your route is about 22.6k miles so expect it to cost 150k or so. You do have some headroom for extra flying.

In addition to the OW award, you might look into a straight BA award, US to Australia for 125,000 miles and a paid, Red E ticket on QF SYD-ASP-SYD. The latter will run you about US$300.

Also, if you do end up going via the Pacific on QF you can save 20,000 award miles (by reducing the total miles flown to <20,000) and solve the two stops in SYD prohibition by ending the OW award in SYD and buying a ticket SYD-ASP-SYD.

I would work hard at finding a Business seat for the long haul stuff. For example, if you don't mind a little longer flight there is a combined BA/CX award from the US via HKG to Australia.

And to answer the header question, you can find the OW award rules here and click on oneworld (sorry I couldn't post the entire link but apparently UBB doesn't like really long URLs). If that link doesn't work, go to www.aa.com and navigate AAdvantage -> Partners & Mileage Programs -> Airlines -> oneworld.

(Edited to add the answer to the original question and fix the UBB URL anomaly.)


[This message has been edited by ExMo (edited 01-18-2003).]

EX MO and others....Thank for the help --I finally found a British Airways agent that helped me and was able to confirm the OW 20,000mi. Award ticket for 130,000 mi. (per ticket) (AA) FLL/LAX - (QF) LAX/SYD - (QF)SYD/ASP - (QF) AKL/LAX (AA) LAX?FLL. I was able to keep it just under 20,000 miles but will have to purchase one needed segment (QF) - AYQ/SYD (Ayers Rock/Sydney) The Qantas agent quoted $247 pp US - a hefty price - but said that's the best....do you have any idea to reduce the cost? She said I can't utilize the OZ PASS price, (which would be around $182) because it'a a one way tckt. Not complaining, I've got First Domestic & Business Class on all the rest of the flights Whooppee!!

[This message has been edited by ReneeMoss (edited 01-20-2003).]

Have a look at www.qantas.com.au . The current fares available one way start at AUD339.69 ( approx $200 ).

Dave