Originally Posted by
beeftrash
ok so you are saying to book in AA and apply what? What 350 credit and what 25kAA miles copay? Can you explain to me as a new person to all this? I think that i can get most of the flight money back but i did pay $200 for better Qantas seats back and paid around 250 for AA seat selection.
I am open for anything. Could i just wait till the day of and possibly pay $500 or so per ticket to upgrade? I am new to all this.
Thanks again
edit: I did buy all of this with my AMEX plat so i think i can get 100% of my money back if i really wanted.
Unfortunately, you will have to call Qantas and find out how much it will be to cancel the ticket and then you need to go on AA.com and find out how much the flights would be booking via AA. I highly doubt you will get any seat upgrades refunded as those are typically nonrefundable, but its worth requesting as you'd be canceling the whole QF ticket. I personally think you should just live and learn from this and keep the ticket you have and the better seats you paid for unless you can really get it all back and start over.
You always want to book AA flights via AA on their ticket stock and marketed flight numbers. You will have no chance of upgrading an AA operated flight on a QF ticket. If you are able to book a new ticket, then you'd still need to buy 25K miles (since you have no AA miles) plus 350 USD for the upgrade and thats not guaranteed to even clear. Also you can't buy miles for brand new AA accounts due to a waiting period of 30 days so you should make sure to have an AA account anyway. You'd be looking at over 1000 USD just to upgrade an AA flight one way with having to purchase the miles + copay.
And sorry to disappoint you but this isn't an airline like Emirates, Eithad, or British Airways, to name a few, that allow "cheap" upgrades on long-haul flights at the airport check in counter. You will have no chance of doing that on both QF and AA.