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Originally Posted by jza
Originally Posted by
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I hope you've got an MIA-HNL booked before that to match up with it.
You have to fly the HNL-MIA first. It's then the MIA-TLS that you can reschedule for later if you wish.
If don't fly MIA-HNL somehow to use the HNL-MIA, your MIA-TLS will be cancelled and you'll lose everything. Very bad use of miles in that case. I bet you would no likey that!
Just to clarify another points:
This trick may save you a one-way award ticket. It doesn't generally save you a round trip award ticket. You still have to "buy" a one-way ticket the other way. (But since AA prices round-trip award tickets at the same price as two one-way tickets, there's no "pricing" downside to making AA roundtrip award reservations as two one-ways instead of one roundtrip, and it may add signficant flexibility.)
If there are "no round trip awards what-so-ever," as Happy pointed out, why is it that the HNL->MIA will be cancelled if there is no MIA->HNL?
It won't be. You can take a ship to HNL if you wish.
But if you book a HNL-MIA-TLS award, and fail to fly the HNL-MIA portion, then the MIA-TLS portion will be canceled.