In addition to the west coast Itns. outlined below, I want to point out the following for clarity to first time readers of this thread.
Great deals to SIN are available from most of the Continental USA.
By avoiding intial departure from the West Coast Cities, there are substainal benefits.
Rather than fly Oneworld partners (QF, BA) for the Lions share of Itn., one can remain on AA metal for Majority of trip (transiting in NRT). As well as remaining on AA flight numbers for the ENTIRE itinerary. Hence, Confirmed upgrades are now available to & from NRT. Further, every single flight mile at any & every fare basis earns full mileage accural, full Elite bonuses as well as accural of 500 miler domestic electronic stickers!!!.
I am going JFK-NRT-SIN-NRT-JFK. Already upgraded both ways to/from Tokyo. I will earn 20,000 Status miles and 60,000 total miles. My fare was a little under $ 800 with all taxes included!!
This ends my edited portion.
Original post follows:
This information must be credited to "KEITHGUY" , a Flyertalker from Vancouver, B.C.
I saw his post on mileage run. I know that cross posting is discouraged. But this is a newworthy development. I know that not all AA'ers regularly read Mileage run board. With the Fluidity & transiant nature of Airline fares, I did not want anyone wanting to go to SIN to miss out!!
Thanks KEITHGUY, for this great find. I am pasting his intial post form his thread on the mileage run board.
perhaps, someone more computer-literate than me can post an actual link to the thread.
The only problem I see is all codeshares. Hence, No VIP upgrades! Ugh, Coach! What about Mileage based upgrades? would this be allowed?
Anyway, Here is KEITHGUY's Post.
"Normally, I would play around with this some more to nail it down before I'd post this, but I am doing a mileage run this weekend and am taking off in a few hours.
Anyways, I was looking at SIN fares and noticed that AA has matched UA's $550 fares from the west coast. So I went ahead and tried to price this out on Travelocity ex-SEA but couldn't get the price to work so I just shrugged it off.
But curiosity got to me and I tried pricing this ex-LAX. Travelocity offered me LAX-SJC-NRT-SIN with NRT-SIN on an AA codeshare operated by JL. Fair enough, but on the outbound. The only option offered to me, to my surprise was SIN-SYD on SQ and then SYD-LAX on the AA codeshare operated by QF. And it still kept the price the same (at $680.20 after taxes).
So I went to play on ITN and it seems that connections through SYD are valid and the SIN-SYD portion can be on BA, QF or SQ. It does however push the fare to just under $800USD.
This is really interesting as this would net you about 22,000 miles and because AA elites get elite bonuses on all oneworld flights, this means that it'd be 44,000+ miles for a roundtrip via SYD. I haven't played around with it enough (don't have time) but this also seems to be valid ex-SJC (and I am pretty sure ex-many other west coast cities, just haven't had time to price it out).
Unfortunately, I called AA and for one reason or another, adding a stopover in SYD doesn't work and pushes the fare into the $2000 range.
But right now, I am looking at ITN and it's giving me.
OCT15 AA0855 SJC-LAX DEP 1935 ARR 2105
OCT15 AA7366 LAX-SYD DEP 2345 ARR 0725+2
OCT17 QF0003 SYD-SIN DEP 1540 ARR 2135
NOV13 BA0015 SIN-SYD DEP 2005 ARR 0635+1
NOV14 AA7365 SYD-LAX DEP 1230 ARR 0700
NOV14 AA0828 LAX-SJC DEP 0920 ARR 1030
This spits out at a price of $793.40USD using the $550 SJC-SIN base fare of MLXPX6M both ways.
I presume the fare difference is due to additional taxes as well as a surcharge due to the MPM being exceeded.
And this is a published fare - you should be able to get this by calling AA reservations (as well as Travelocity, ITN, Expedia, etc.)
It makes me wonder if routings like SEA-DFW-NRT-SYD-SIN would be allowed for a similar fare. That would be a lot of miles. Anyways, thought I'd share it with you and maybe further enhance the routing/fare. "
[This message has been edited by writetorich (edited 05-29-2002).]