Originally Posted by
FlyingEgghead
Seems the reading comprehension issue is Happy's, not S.R's, since it was clearly and legitimately stated as a counterfactual question -- what "would have" happened if OP had made a different choice.
OP just reiterated while he has contemplated shelling out $1500 to buy a revenue ticket, he decided to check UA award and was able to find availability for the same evening or the next day. He ended up canceled the AA award and got back 180K, then flew Austrian to come home.
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Originally Posted by
Delta141
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- next up, I started looking at revenue and non-revenue options for the same evening (this event happened around 17:00 local time) or the next day, and I could roughly trade off saving 180K AA miles for flying economy for about $1600 (plus hotel and taxi fares it was closer to $1900 trade off). I tinkered with switching my destination point and dealing with EU local hops but that didn't price well.
- finally, I started looking at the award inventory on United and AC and found a good amount of C and E space for the same evening and the next day.
- booked two saver C awards on Austrian using United miles.
Paying $1500 was very much on the table if I didn't find alternatives, especially given the tradeoffs between the revenue and non-revenue fares. I was unimpressed with the way QR staff treated me and their lack of interest in solving the problem, even if it was outside of their ability, and especially their lack of providing me with relevant documentation that I can take to AA and try to recoup the $1500.
And that was what I had said,
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Originally Posted by Happy
"Reread OP's first post. He did not pay but canceled the AA award. At the end they flew another program's award tickets in J."
that you commented that my comprehension was wrong... All I wrote was to tell the poster who was thinking about whether AA would compensate had the OP paid the baggage fee - that the OP did NOT pay but flew on another program's award.
I dont think speculating on a hypothesis that the premise never exists is of any meaning or usefulness. Besides, we may reasonably conclude that this would be a huge uphill battle for OP to get any reimbursement from AA. Obviously you may disagree...