Originally Posted by
lax.sea.jnu
I tried the AA desk, and they could only book 330 days in advance. All the flights I'm looking at are available from other OW partners. One of the flights I want is A5, and I'm trying to book for 5 people so I'd like to get this done ASAP. The AA rep also said that they would need to look for "American space" on the first flight. I asked if she was referring to American codeshares, and she said "no, just American space." I'm not sure what that refers to.
Since the AA RTW desk was merged into Meeting Services, there are a lot of agents answering the phone who have no idea. You can try calling back and see if you get a more knowledgable agent. There is no requirement that the first flight be on AA, although as I mentioned above, they will likely want to see one or more AA codes on over the water flights. That may not matter to you, but it could affect your earnings and also the fuel surcharges.
Originally Posted by
lax.sea.jnu
I'm looking to make 2 bookings for 2 groups of passengers, 1 group on ACIR22 and 1 group on AONE3. I received an e-mail from CX that said my AIRC22 routing wasn't a valid RTW routing (obviously). I'm not sure they were aware of Circle Pacific. I received a call last night from CX but I was sleeping and missed it. It is a bit annoying I can't call at my own convenience. I imagine they will be especially hard to reach now with HKIA closed.
The term "RTW" is often used to mean OneWorld Explorer, Circle, Global Explorer, and Visit fares. It would be worth clarifying the fare want to book.