How to Use British Airways Miles: Post 2 Booking a LAN award JFK-LIM

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As promised, today's post is JFK-Lima, Peru on LAN. For this example, let's assume we want to try something new and want to fly Lan, which is arguably the best business class product to South America. The first thing I did was Google "LAN Route Map" to see where they fly to in the US, but those results didn't turn up much. I then went to their Facebook book, where it says their US gateways are Los Angeles, Miami, New York, and San Francisco. I needed to know this, because in order to take advantage of the one Oneworld partner award chart, which is the most generous, you'd have to fly only on Lan. So flying from another city on AA to a Lan gateway is not an option because that will jack the price up to 120,000 miles for business class, since that would be a multi-Oneworld partner award. I'll cover in other posts, but if you don't live in or near Lan gateway cities, I'd recommend finding American Airlines routing from your city to Lima - that can be done at aa.com. Any MileSAAver awards can be booked using British Airways miles - you just have to call BA if the trip has multiple stops. Now onto our award; I want to leave in the next couple weeks to take a little spring break: