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Dec 21, 2013, 2:11 am

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Apieinthesky

Join Date: Jun 2012

Posts: 2,342

Quote:

Originally Posted by wholeinone04

Can you ever book an MCE seat with an AAdvantage award?

I'm looking at a flight from lax-jfk-fco in the summer and I want to fly MCE(at least) so if the answer to the question above is no, I want to book the 60k Anytime award(in MCE) and see if an upgrade becomes available for a 50k biz seat.

Unfortunately, there is currently no way to purchase MCE on a sAAver ticket if you are not otherwise eligible (status, etc). It's a quirk of the AA system that I don't understand.

Are you sure it's worth the extra miles to fly an AAnytime award? If so, then go for it.