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May 23, 2018, 6:06 pm

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Originally Posted by cheltzel

My apologies for not having read the entire thread (all 720+ posts). But I have done a bunch of thread searches and have really focused on the last 70 - 90 posts.

My situation is I want to book a QR business award trip to Africa (using AA miles). I have found availability from at least two gateway cities all the way through to my destination. However there is no award availability between my home airport (ORD) and any of the gateways. So I plan on purchasing a positioning flight. All of this will be done on AA (001) tickets.

It appears from the posts I have read that if I book the award flight and the positioning flight during the same call and request (asking nicely but insistently) I will be able to get this done on one PNR or at least be able to link the 2 PNRs for the purposes of checking my bags all the way through to the final destination (ORD-PHL-DOH-XXX).

Is this the case?

You might want to call AA feed them the flights that have award availability and then see if you can add on the ORD flight. You might be in Y on the ORD=PHL flight it's a short flight.

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