Originally Posted by
JJeffrey
You cannot fly ORD-DOH-BKK on a single award using AA miles anyway. This will price as 2 awards regardless of whether your DOH connection is over/under 24 hrs.
To book, just use the multi-city booking at aa.com, search ORD-DOH and DOH-BKK on whatever dates you want to go. Again this will be 2 awards, so for business class for example using QR to BKK will be an extra 40k miles each way per person compared to booking it as a single award via the Pacific on AA/JL/CX etc.
Just a side comment on the use of multi-city approach. From my recent experience, these issues happened a lot:
1. Award route availability may not match what you could book as separate trips;
2. Online booking engine may freeze, and not complete the reservation;
3. Taxes and fees will be different from either a trip w/o a long stop, or separate PNR's.
I recently had a 3-stop trip stiched together using this method: first booked whatever segments the online engine allowed, then asked a phone agent to add the remaining segments. There was apparently more than one way to calculate the mileage and fee requirements. The initial quote I received and accepted from the phone agent was actually higher than the final invoice I received a couple days later. ^