aa.com Basic (front page) vs Advanced Award Search Results
Mar 31, 2017, 5:56 am
#1
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Is this personal? Or am I missing something?
Looking for a flight from MAD to LAS.
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Bottom - regular browsing, logged in to my AA account.
What-da-F?
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What-da-F?
Last edited by JDiver; Apr 1, 2017 at 8:12 am Reason: Restore original post title
Mar 31, 2017, 6:28 am
#6
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Does that SAAver availability that you're showing include BA legs perchance? I've been seeing a weird thing on aa.com over the past few days regarding searches where I am actually trying to find some itineraries with BA TATL legs (crazy talk, I know, but flying LHR-IAD cuts a leg out of many of my journeys so I often find it worth the fuel surcharges).
Searching just on the main page search, it won't return the routings with BA - it will only look for AA metal. I have to go to advanced search, and even though the drop-down is set by default to "all airlines", only when I search through there am I then being shown the itineraries with BA legs. Could this be what you're seeing? It's odd, to be sure, but it's been happening to me for like a week now.
Searching just on the main page search, it won't return the routings with BA - it will only look for AA metal. I have to go to advanced search, and even though the drop-down is set by default to "all airlines", only when I search through there am I then being shown the itineraries with BA legs. Could this be what you're seeing? It's odd, to be sure, but it's been happening to me for like a week now.
Mar 31, 2017, 6:35 am
#8
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Does that SAAver availability that you're showing include BA legs perchance? I've been seeing a weird thing on aa.com over the past few days regarding searches where I am actually trying to find some itineraries with BA TATL legs (crazy talk, I know, but flying LHR-IAD cuts a leg out of many of my journeys so I often find it worth the fuel surcharges).
Searching just on the main page search, it won't return the routings with BA - it will only look for AA metal. I have to go to advanced search, and even though the drop-down is set by default to "all airlines", only when I search through there am I then being shown the itineraries with BA legs. Could this be what you're seeing? It's odd, to be sure, but it's been happening to me for like a week now.
Searching just on the main page search, it won't return the routings with BA - it will only look for AA metal. I have to go to advanced search, and even though the drop-down is set by default to "all airlines", only when I search through there am I then being shown the itineraries with BA legs. Could this be what you're seeing? It's odd, to be sure, but it's been happening to me for like a week now.
I'll try on the advanced search
Mar 31, 2017, 6:53 am
#9
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So I just did what I described above on the date/city combination that you stated. Logged in, search on the main page, nothing in J/F SAAver. Went to advanced search, didn't touch a thing, clicked search, now showing J/F SAAver with BA LHR-PHX or LHR-LAS as the TATL. So it seems you were encountering the same issue I was.
Mar 31, 2017, 6:57 am
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Try clearing your cache or another browser. Some shopping sites are tracking what you're looking for and will up the prices the next time you try the same search. I wouldn't put it past AA.com to do the same.
Mar 31, 2017, 7:12 am
#12
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To be clear, AA.com, in the search results I referred to earlier, didn't show it on exactly June 3 either - I believe it was the 1st and the 8th. The point in play here was that there went from being no available itineraries anywhere on the results calendar to there being some on dates proximate to the search target date.
Mar 31, 2017, 7:35 am
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To be clear, AA.com, in the search results I referred to earlier, didn't show it on exactly June 3 either - I believe it was the 1st and the 8th. The point in play here was that there went from being no available itineraries anywhere on the results calendar to there being some on dates proximate to the search target date.
Mar 31, 2017, 7:53 am
#14
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Yeah, that is how I actually ran into this. I always start off searching trips leg by leg on BA.com The BA site was showing me the flights I needed, but I couldn't get it to replicate on AA.com. But I noticed that something was up with the AA search results from the main page since it was showing only AA under the airlines check box on the results page. So I went into advanced search, ran it, and it started including BA legs - the itineraries I'd been able to piece together on BA.com then came out on AA.com.
Mar 31, 2017, 8:20 am
#15
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I encountered this exact situation a few years ago when redeeming an award on DL. Price kept increasing every time I searched until I cleared my cookies.