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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]we are using FF miles but even those tix are "pricey" these days.  :([/quote]

Ack I know!  I had been saving my AA miles to get to Europe, and when I finally had enough and went to book, made an exasperating discovery.  Many, or most really, of AA award tickets to Europe are on British Airways- which charge ridiculous fees. The agent called it a "tax" but I investigated and it is really a fuel surcharge (that most US carriers build into a ticket rather than an add-on like BA).  It was going to cost $1500 for two "free" tickets.  I ended up finding a non-BA flight to there, but we had to use my husband's United miles for the return trip, even being flexible on dates it was tough to avoid BA.  But doing it that way cost us only ~$200 rather than the $1500.  It was really irritating though, I guess in the future we'll have to use the AA miles for domestic and International travel where AA flies a lot of flights themselves (e.g., Central America). [/quote]

My biggest beef with AA is that they are not upfront with fees on their award tickets.  When you search for award tickets on United, for instance, the miles needed and fees are displayed for each flight on the search results page. On AA, you need to select the flights and go to the next step before they tell you what the fee is. It's annoying. BA is notorious for the fees but if you only need to take one leg on BA (like take AA to London and only use BA from London to your final stop in Europe) the fees aren't as steep. But AA doesn't make it easy to figure that out without a lot of trial and error.  [/quote]

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