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Welcome to Freakimilers Coffee Break, where we focus on a single topic related to miles and points.

And each coffee break is limited to 20 minutes or less, or your money back.

Today's coffee break, the best miles

for each airline alliance.

So you know, airlines partner up into these alliances.

There's Star Alliance, One World, and Sky Team,

and in general, if you have miles from one airline that's in an alliance,

you can usually use those miles to book flights on not just that same airline, but also other

airlines in the same alliance. But not all miles are created equal. So we're going to look at

several types of miles from each alliance. And in each

case, there's at least one transferable points currency that can transfer to those miles that we're

going to talk about, often more than one. And we're going to, you know, basically discuss which is best if you want to book

flights within that alliance. Yeah, and this is kind of going to be a hot take. We're not going to

dive into all of the aspects of each program. But let's take a look at several of the aspects.

And let's start out with Star Alliance. So with Star Alliance, first up, we've got United.

United, of course,

is a Chase Ultimate Rewards transfer partner and a built transfer partner. So you have a couple of

ways to gather United Miles. So what are some of the pros of United Mileage Plus? Yeah. So United

has no award change or cancellation fees, which I think is great. No partner booking fees or surcharges.

They have, even though they don't have a published award chart anymore, they do have zone-based

pricing. So, for example, if you're flying to Europe, you know, you're generally going to get the same price, whether you're flying

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