Originally Posted by
irishguy28
Or it could just be, as is often the case with US-based travel agents, that a ticket can be cancelled, but rather than getting the money back it is refunded as a flight credit that has to be used within a year and/or subject to other requirements (another one here being: has to be used on the same airline).
Given that the OP apparently no longer needs to travel on AA, they may just be questioning - given the "codeshares are acceptable" line - that they can "trick" the system into booking on a different airline, in a context far removed from the original ticket.
I certainly didn't intend to be cagey! We have to cancel an entire multi-leg holiday due to unforeseen circumstances and all the elements are refundable except for some first class AA flights where it's going to cost us several thousand pounds in non-refundable tickets.
Our travel agent says we can, instead, rebook those onto any AA flights for $200 per ticket plus difference in fare.
We are simply wondering where we can go on AA ... and I was hoping that could include anything on BA's route network.
However, it seems not. We will look for something that suits us on the AA route network (at the margin, we will prefer BA planes).
Or we may simply have to accept the loss - these things happen.