Originally Posted by nbarve
Hello All,
I have a query. I am trying to book an award from SFO/SJC/OAK into BOM in Aug using AA miles. As you can guess, NOTHING is available on AA or any of its partners.
My question to you was do airlines allow a combination ticket - let me explain:
Assuming they have an award availability for SFO-SIN , would they allow me to buy SIN-BOM, and charge me just that airfare?(roundtrip). SIN was just an example, it could be BKK, DXB,CMB any destination close to BOM.
Please help me with your expert advice..!
Thanks..
As other have mentioned, it's one thing to buy a pair of tickets, it's another to have them be protected in case one flight is late but the next is on time.
If both the tickets are on AA flight numbers and COULD have been a connection, you should be able to get them combined into one PNR after you pay for one and get an award for the other. (But do it over the phone with a CSR to whom you alert UP FRONT that this is what you want to do.)
If the BOM flight is on another airline (but a OneWorld partner), HOPEFULLY AA can put that onto one PNR too, but I don't know for sure offhand.
If the BOM flight is with someone with whom AA has no relationship, you're probably up a creek, and would want to plan a long stopover in the city where you're making the connection to minimize the problems should the first flight be late (and "late" on transoceanic can mean "next day" sometimes!), or buy fully flexible tickets.
Finally, do you JUST have enough miles for this award ticket? If not, when you say "nothing is available", do you really mean nothing is available, or only that nothing is available at "SAAver" type award rates? (Usually availability is far better at "AAnytime" award rates.)