Originally Posted by
guv1976
Then I stand corrected. What procedure did you have to follow to get an AA ticket and an AY ticket on the same PNR? If this is, in fact, possible, then it's likely to be a significant (negative) change to AA's policy to protect on separate AA/oneworld tickets.
Travel agents can put whatever they like on the same PNR quite easily. The most ideal being you have the AA and AY issued on the same PNR during initial ticketing.
Originally Posted by
Dave Noble
You cannot take an existing AA issued ticket and an AY issued ticket and combine them into a single reservation
2 separate bookings will always be 2 separate bookings - they will not become one
It may be theoretically possible to have an award flight with a paid flight in the same reservation where both are issued by the same carrier - but that is diiferent to combining an AA issued ticket and an AY issued ticket into one
You can't do it with existing AA website/AY website made bookings. There are ways to combine two AA website bookings - travel agents are able to do it. However if you had an AA and AY booking on separate PNRs booked via a travel agent, then it's easy for a seasoned travel agent to combine them. Although the more ideal situation is for the two tickets to be issued in the same PNR outright to avoid that issue.
Besides, if you had an AY ticket and an AA ticket, you would absolutely want to use a travel agent outside the US as non-US travel agents can exempt the US and ZP taxes on the AA domestic ticket when there's international carriage on a separate ticket. It's roughly a 7-8% saving off any AA domestic ticket. The same applies for AS, HA and UA tickets in the same manner - but not DL.
You can have an award and commercial ticket in the same PNR, even if they are NOT issued by the same carrier. For example a QF award ticket issued on QF ticket stock for SYD-JNB on QF63 connecting to a BA commercial ticket for JNB-CPT issued on BA ticket stock. Through-check works just fine in such a scenario.