2017 MileSAAver Awards Disappear, Unavailable [AAnytime now back]
Feb 21, 2016, 9:54 am
#107
Join Date: Feb 2016
Posts: 31
Ended up ticketing the international portion of my flights and will deal with the domestic ticket later. If they had good customer service, they would allow us to add domestic legs to an already ticketed flight without the $150 change fee. Bt I hve very low expectations.
Feb 21, 2016, 11:18 am
#108
Join Date: Dec 2006
Programs: SPG Plat, Hyatt Diamond, UA, AA, DL, BA, CX
Posts: 491
I got the same response from them on twitter.
Ended up ticketing the international portion of my flights and will deal with the domestic ticket later. If they had good customer service, they would allow us to add domestic legs to an already ticketed flight without the $150 change fee. Bt I hve very low expectations.
Ended up ticketing the international portion of my flights and will deal with the domestic ticket later. If they had good customer service, they would allow us to add domestic legs to an already ticketed flight without the $150 change fee. Bt I hve very low expectations.
Feb 21, 2016, 1:29 pm
#109
Join Date: Feb 2016
Posts: 31
I thought about chancing it but figured if this is what I have to pay to be in CX J class SIN to ORD, Not a bad price to pay.
Feb 21, 2016, 1:37 pm
#110
Join Date: Mar 2012
Posts: 8
I have looked all day for DFW-PVG or DFW-NRT or HKG in Milesaaver Biz/First; there is NOTHING available for 2017- NOTHING, Tried SFO and LAX, also tried ORD to all three to all three final destinations, nothing and tried searching nearly every day allowed in Jan 2017
Feb 22, 2016, 6:57 am
#111
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: CVG, AMS, BKK
Programs: Delta Diamond, Hyatt Globalist, Marriott Titanium, Hilton Diamond.
Posts: 185
AA has the first 17 days of 2017 loaded, but there is ZERO sAAver availability. Based on their social media responses, AA must think its passengers are complete idiots. I don't believe for a second that this is all some innocent case of coincidences. For those of us outside of hub cities and without EXP status, this will add at least $150 to my international partner award tickets. I can't book a simple CVG-ORD connector to get to my Cathay flight.
If you look at individual days, there is variable pricing for AAnytime awards (20-50k in economy) so their rev mgmt team is obviously making decisions. They are just choosing to hold back all saaver availability.
For those with a longer history with AA, is there any precedent for this?
If you look at individual days, there is variable pricing for AAnytime awards (20-50k in economy) so their rev mgmt team is obviously making decisions. They are just choosing to hold back all saaver availability.
For those with a longer history with AA, is there any precedent for this?
Feb 22, 2016, 8:59 am
#112
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: CGX
Posts: 168
I got the same response from them on twitter.
Ended up ticketing the international portion of my flights and will deal with the domestic ticket later. If they had good customer service, they would allow us to add domestic legs to an already ticketed flight without the $150 change fee. Bt I hve very low expectations.
Ended up ticketing the international portion of my flights and will deal with the domestic ticket later. If they had good customer service, they would allow us to add domestic legs to an already ticketed flight without the $150 change fee. Bt I hve very low expectations.
Feb 22, 2016, 9:35 am
#113
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: SFO
Programs: Marriott LT Plat; WoH Exp; AS Gold; AA Plat
Posts: 369
I gave up on LAX-SFO availability opening up on AA and over the weekend, ticketed my trip from HKG by adding LAX-SEA-SFO in F on AS. Would a significant schedule change provide an opportunity to change (w/o a fee) to a more direct route to SFO?
Feb 22, 2016, 10:59 am
#114
Join Date: Nov 2009
Posts: 519
Did you add LAX-SEA-SFO on a same itinerary?
Feb 22, 2016, 11:17 am
#115
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Thousand Oaks, Ca., USA
Programs: AA Lifetime Plat; Bonvoy Titanium Lifetime Elite;Hyatt Globalist; HHonors Diamond; United Silver
Posts: 8,314
If it was all AA, the fee would be waived, not sure if it's AS.
Feb 22, 2016, 12:32 pm
#116
Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 4,784
AA has the first 17 days of 2017 loaded, but there is ZERO sAAver availability. Based on their social media responses, AA must think its passengers are complete idiots. I don't believe for a second that this is all some innocent case of coincidences. For those of us outside of hub cities and without EXP status, this will add at least $150 to my international partner award tickets. I can't book a simple CVG-ORD connector to get to my Cathay flight.
If you look at individual days, there is variable pricing for AAnytime awards (20-50k in economy) so their rev mgmt team is obviously making decisions. They are just choosing to hold back all saaver availability.
For those with a longer history with AA, is there any precedent for this?
If you look at individual days, there is variable pricing for AAnytime awards (20-50k in economy) so their rev mgmt team is obviously making decisions. They are just choosing to hold back all saaver availability.
For those with a longer history with AA, is there any precedent for this?
I'm ex-YYZ (Canada), which gets even worse after 3/22 ..
Hence, nothing in 2017 at all for YYZ to any East Coast hubs, then to Europe (20K off-peak)
Otherwise, I'll probably book Dec 2016 to Europe, and HOPE to change to 2017 when Saaver space do open up, without change fee hopefully
Feb 22, 2016, 12:51 pm
#117
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: CVG, AMS, BKK
Programs: Delta Diamond, Hyatt Globalist, Marriott Titanium, Hilton Diamond.
Posts: 185
Just hit another blog. The more visibility the better...
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Feb 22, 2016, 9:41 pm
#118
Join Date: Oct 2015
Posts: 5
Just got off the phone with an EP reservation agent and was told that if you add a flight or make any changes to your award ticket after March 22nd that you will be charged the new award rate even if you booked the original flight before then. So my first class CX booked at 67,500 will be 110,000 if I were to make any changes/additions to my itinerary after March 22nd!!
Feb 22, 2016, 9:53 pm
#119
Suspended
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: FIND ME ON TWITTER FOR THE LATEST
Posts: 27,730
Just got off the phone with an EP reservation agent and was told that if you add a flight or make any changes to your award ticket after March 22nd that you will be charged the new award rate even if you booked the original flight before then. So my first class CX booked at 67,500 will be 110,000 if I were to make any changes/additions to my itinerary after March 22nd!!