Jan 13, 2015, 1:39 pm
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Awards: Success stories of award booking on Etihad using AA miles (>= 2015)
This thread is about our members' successful award bookings on Etihad / EY using AAdvantage miles. Please do not post to this thread if you want tips and assistance on booking Etihad awards with AA miles but see this thread: How to use AA miles on Etihad / EY (Consolidated / Master Thread). The wikipost of that thread also contains instructions on how to search for EY availability.
Note: posts prior to 2015 about this topic (with the exception of a few 2014 end of year posts brought forward for continuity) may be found at ARCHIVE: Success stories of award booking on Etihad using AA miles
Success stories booking awards on Etihad using AA miles (Archive - 2015 and earlier)
Jan 2, 2015, 10:28 pm
#16
Join Date: Jul 2009
Programs: Mileage Plus, AAdvantage
Posts: 424
There is no award inventory for the Residence to begin with. As in is only possible to book it using EY miles under the open seat (which is equivalent to a paid seat, costs the equiv of 20kUSD in miles which is 2.3 mil EY miles). So it's either your friend is bluffing and only managed the regular F suite (Apartment) or doesn't know what he's talking about.
Jan 3, 2015, 1:18 am
#17
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: KYE
Posts: 4,156
Ex-LHR it's around 73k USD for a return LHR-SYD, doubt anyone would spend this amount if the travel is in March when there's no A380 between AUH-SYD and vv.
Jan 3, 2015, 6:48 am
#18
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: London (~75% of the year).
Programs: AA PPro
Posts: 474
I'm aware there's Guest Seat availability, but it's dried up considerably over the last week or so when it started becoming available. Just that your post made it sound like there was wide open availability in November (which works for me), otherwise the dates I saw availability don't work for me.
EDIT: Looks like the situation has changed since I last checked two days ago! Found availability in mid-November
EDIT: Looks like the situation has changed since I last checked two days ago! Found availability in mid-November
Jan 5, 2015, 2:26 am
#20
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Leeds UK
Programs: BD, AA, BA, CO Marriott Plat>gold, Hyatt Diamond>Plat,Hilton Gold SPG Gold PC Plat
Posts: 1,093
Jan 5, 2015, 3:02 am
#21
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: HEL
Programs: SPG LTP, hotels, OWE, STE+, *G, Octopus
Posts: 5,783
I now have an EY booking reference, but the website won't let me select a seat. I guess I have to call?
Jan 5, 2015, 4:28 am
#22
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Sep 2003
Programs: BA Silver, EY Gold, HH Diamond, IHG Plat
Posts: 12,210
If I have a award booked on BA what is the procedure to swap over to EY if the arrival/departure stay the same? Will I get the taxes back?
Jan 5, 2015, 5:50 am
#23
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: KYE
Posts: 4,156
Not going to be worse off than US DM. It's purely speculative all this talk about the enhancement. The only somewhat certain thing is the tie up of status to actual dollars spent.
Jan 8, 2015, 5:03 am
#24
Company Representative, Etihad
Join Date: Sep 2013
Posts: 1,815
Etihad Airways
Dear Guest,
Please kindly visit our Etihad Guest website http://bit.ly/1yaobyz to find more details.
You may also contact your nearest Etihad Office at: http://bit.ly/1zKPQlz our reservation team will assist you accordingly.
We look forward to seeing you on board! *ZD
Please kindly visit our Etihad Guest website http://bit.ly/1yaobyz to find more details.
You may also contact your nearest Etihad Office at: http://bit.ly/1zKPQlz our reservation team will assist you accordingly.
We look forward to seeing you on board! *ZD
Jan 8, 2015, 5:05 am
#25
Company Representative, Etihad
Join Date: Sep 2013
Posts: 1,815
Etihad Airways
Dear Guest,
Please kindly contact your nearest Etihad Office at http://bit.ly/1zKPQlz for further assistance.
Thank you! *ZD
Please kindly contact your nearest Etihad Office at http://bit.ly/1zKPQlz for further assistance.
Thank you! *ZD
Jan 8, 2015, 9:14 pm
#26
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: DC
Posts: 195
Was able to book the following yesterday for travel in late June/early July:
IAD-AUH-DEL (J)
DEL-AUH-LHR (F) - after which I connect to BA.
Excited to try what looks like a super nice business class on the 787 (IAD-AUH) and, of course, the new first class on the A380 (AUH-LHR). I've flown business on several airlines before, but this will be my first time in first!
The DEL-AUH leg is on one of the Jet Airways planes (operated by Etihad) which I'm interested to check out, too.
IAD-AUH-DEL (J)
DEL-AUH-LHR (F) - after which I connect to BA.
Excited to try what looks like a super nice business class on the 787 (IAD-AUH) and, of course, the new first class on the A380 (AUH-LHR). I've flown business on several airlines before, but this will be my first time in first!
The DEL-AUH leg is on one of the Jet Airways planes (operated by Etihad) which I'm interested to check out, too.
Jan 8, 2015, 10:13 pm
#27
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: YYZ
Posts: 1,666
Award seats for AUH-SYD in the A380 Apartments seems to have opened up! ^
Going to save up my AA miles for one of these longer flights instead of the relatively short AUH-LHR route! It's a shame that AA won't let you route Oz-Europe on EY, otherwise you could do SYD-AUH-LHR the entire way in the Apartments.
Going to save up my AA miles for one of these longer flights instead of the relatively short AUH-LHR route! It's a shame that AA won't let you route Oz-Europe on EY, otherwise you could do SYD-AUH-LHR the entire way in the Apartments.
Jan 9, 2015, 3:37 am
#28
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Sep 2003
Programs: BA Silver, EY Gold, HH Diamond, IHG Plat
Posts: 12,210
Jan 9, 2015, 3:25 pm
#30
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: MEL
Programs: QFF, AA, LM, EY
Posts: 762
The only thing to note is that they price it as two awards. So SYD-AUH-LHR will cost you 100k in F one way as opposed to 80k on QF/BA or via asia (CX/MH).