Originally Posted by
Thunderroad
Now that I've secured the JFK-AUH flights, I intend to ask AA to split the reservation and tack on an award flight from ORD for my wife and for me from SFO. (Surprisingly, award availability looks decent, though not for the non-stop SFO-JFK.) I've done something like this before on this kind of AA/EY award booking, but am still a bit nervous about messing up the entire reservation while making this change, in view of the whole challenge of booking EY awards via AA these days. If anyone has any advice about avoiding pitfalls, I'd welcome it.
Why do you want AA to split the record? Are you and your wife going to be on different flights? At any rate, it shouldn't mess up your EY flights. Couldn't hurt to confirm with the AA agent that the EY flights won't be touched, but shouldn't be necessary either.
Originally Posted by
Thunderroad
I also was able to book separate AUH-NBO tickets in J (no F on that route) for the day following our AUH arrival. I tried seeing whether JFK-AUH and AUH-NBO could be combined into one ticket to see whether this might save AA miles and because reportedly a single ticket gets you access to the AUH F lounge for the ongoing J flight (though this turns out to be less relevant to us since we have to overnight in AUH anyway), but to no avail.
Why not? It shouldn't be a problem to add extra flights onto an existing award, without altering the existing flights.
Originally Posted by
NecessaryIndulgences
The leading AA segment might be a problem, though. With some airlines, we've been successful checking in separately for down-stream segments by using a "find my booking" type of search that allows you to enter name, confirmation # and departure city (skipping right to the first EY segment, for example). Unfortunately, Etihad.com doesn't have that function as far as I can tell.
Much easier thing to try is to call AA and ask for the EY PNR, then go to the EY web site and use their online checkin with the EY PNR.
Originally Posted by
LizGross144
Called in last night to book an MSN>ORD (AA) ORD>AUH>CAI (EY) business award, 329 days out. Agent saw the space just fine, and call was over in 10 minutes. Reservation ticketed within 2 hours. Best $33 I've spent in awhile.
To clarify, you called AA's U.S. number?
Originally Posted by
happy10345
So it appears the US AA call centers do now have some ability to see J seats for the summer timeframe on EY.
Good to read.
Originally Posted by
acell
I saved up over 100K AA points, and just now read that in the news that "AA is ending code-share agreement with Etihad in March 2018". Can someone tell me if it is still possible to book tickets to and from the US after March?
Im looking to fly AUH-ORD April 28th , i see award availabilty on EY site, would AA be able to reserves this for me after this "codeshare agreement expiration"?
Codeshares only apply to revenue flights. Award bookings never use codeshares.
Originally Posted by
happy10345
I booked J tickets this week using the US call center....so at least one example of not needing to call Australia or NZ.
For which flights dates? How far out matters.