AA.Com and booking partner award flights (to merge)
Jul 26, 2017, 9:05 pm
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AA.Com and booking partner award flights (to merge)
Yes I know you can check british, air berlin, Iberia, and a few other airlines award availability online but can anyone speculate when AA will get into the 21 st century and show Cathay, Japan and all other One World partners availability and the ability to book all online? I'm tired of using BA site and others looking for availability. It's so un-user friendly.
Jul 26, 2017, 9:42 pm
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Jul 26, 2017, 10:13 pm
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About to book first AA award flight on the website. Not my primary FF program, so unfamiliar with how AA works.
Found flight that would work. What should I be aware of when actually completing the booking? Does AA tend to show phantom availability like Aeroplan.
Any tips or advice much appreciated.
Found flight that would work. What should I be aware of when actually completing the booking? Does AA tend to show phantom availability like Aeroplan.
Any tips or advice much appreciated.
Jul 26, 2017, 10:21 pm
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About to book first AA award flight on the website. Not my primary FF program, so unfamiliar with how AA works.
Found flight that would work. What should I be aware of when actually completing the booking? Does AA tend to show phantom availability like Aeroplan.
Any tips or advice much appreciated.
Found flight that would work. What should I be aware of when actually completing the booking? Does AA tend to show phantom availability like Aeroplan.
Any tips or advice much appreciated.
Jul 27, 2017, 2:41 am
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About to book first AA award flight on the website. Not my primary FF program, so unfamiliar with how AA works.
Found flight that would work. What should I be aware of when actually completing the booking? Does AA tend to show phantom availability like Aeroplan.
Any tips or advice much appreciated.
Found flight that would work. What should I be aware of when actually completing the booking? Does AA tend to show phantom availability like Aeroplan.
Any tips or advice much appreciated.
Jul 27, 2017, 4:16 am
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In my experience this seems to be especially likely with Iberia segments.
Jul 27, 2017, 7:42 am
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Jul 27, 2017, 7:52 am
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Lots of tips and advice in http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/ameri...ssistance.html. Be sure to read the Wikipost at the top of the page.
Jul 27, 2017, 7:55 am
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Jul 27, 2017, 8:00 am
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If u are a Google chrome user, download award finder from the google store. It makes searching on AA JL and QF allot easier
Yes I know you can check british, air berlin, Iberia, and a few other airlines award availability online but can anyone speculate when AA will get into the 21 st century and show Cathay, Japan and all other One World partners availability and the ability to book all online? I'm tired of using BA site and others looking for availability. It's so un-user friendly.
Jul 27, 2017, 8:00 am
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Yes I know you can check british, air berlin, Iberia, and a few other airlines award availability online but can anyone speculate when AA will get into the 21 st century and show Cathay, Japan and all other One World partners availability and the ability to book all online? I'm tired of using BA site and others looking for availability. It's so un-user friendly.
Jul 27, 2017, 8:29 am
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Changing partner award: AAgent claims a voluntary DG will cause award to price lower
Alright seeking the sage wisdom of my AA people. I have an Asia 2 - North America award booked for 70k miles. Full routing is CX J HKG-HND, JL J HND-JFK, AA F LGA-CLT, AA F CLT-DFW. I am looking to replace the last 2 segments with AA Y JFK-BWI and AA F BWI-DFW, so that I both don't have to change airports in NYC and it gets me back to Dallas a couple hours earlier. JFK-BWI is operated by an ER4, so it's single cabin economy with no F. This threw me for a wrinkle because the AAgent claimed that making this change to include the Y segment would cause the award to price at 55k miles and returning the 15k difference would cause a redeposit fee. Now I don't mind that on paper, but I am struggling to figure out how this works because to my knowledge any voluntary downgrade is fine but it's charged at the higher price anyway, and I don't know how she got to 55k miles. I'm worried that doing this will screw up my CX and JL flights.
Anybody seen this before? I told her I'd think about it and call back.
Anybody seen this before? I told her I'd think about it and call back.