Originally Posted by
beachfan
that was not true last year, you didn’t need current availability on segments you weren’t changing.
Whether it’s possible to do it right is irrelevant. I don’t think it’s easy to know and record at time of booking that stand alone segments were not available. its not just a Y/N question when booking AA-BB CC-DD-EE
If one knows there is separate segment award availability, as well as married segment availability, how can one ensure that AA recognizes that and allows changes to one segment regardless of current availability on the others
What
Psyclone*Jack said is that this is a new memo sent out last week (indicating a new policy?). But I thought AA had the ability to look up historical availability at any given date/time anyway. (I recall this coming up in the context of fare changes/ticket issuance issues, etc elsewhere, but if they could look up historical availability in other contexts, it would seem obvious to do it in this context
if they were checking whether married segment availability was used to make a current booking.)
If this is a new policy -- that dropping a segment requires current availability on all remaining segments -- that's obviously a significant though unsurprising (given the new married segment availability) devaluation.