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Re:United Airlines awards hackers millions of miles for reve... by ubernostrum on Thursday July 16, 2015 @12:21PM (#9898161)
Though Lufthansa is known to severely restrict the ability to redeem Star Alliance partner miles for premium seats.

Back when US Airways (which is where I have my status) was in Star, that was a consistent complaint. Now we're in oneworld with the AA merger, the complaint is British Airways' ridiculous "fuel surcharge" which makes a premium-class mileage-award ticket still cost the same amount of cash as an actual economy-class ticket.

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Re:United Airlines awards hackers millions of miles for reve... by biggc on Thursday July 16, 2015 @03:32PM (#9899390)
I don't think they have any control over that. It's likely to do with Heathrow or UK regulations.
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Re:United Airlines awards hackers millions of miles for reve... by ubernostrum on Thursday July 16, 2015 @03:34PM (#9899406)
Booking a business-class or first-class award, on a US airline, to Heathrow, does not incur the massive "fuel surcharge". And as far as I'm aware, even booking on other British airlines (like Virgin Atlantic) does not incur the charge. It's only on BA.
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