Originally Posted by
sapguy
New to AA premium travel search as my ExecPlat status was all domestic + 1 TATL flight - my international travel is 98% United and Star Alliance
due to my 2MM status with them and therefore my wife is also a 1K even though she flies no more than 25,000 miles a year!
But I want to fly JAL Biz and F using award miles for my wife, and either points or cash for me since I have heard so much good things about JAL. Probably routes are LAX-HND-LAX, PHL-Tokyo (HND or NRT)-PHL, LAX-KIX-LAX, with beyond destinations as BKK, SGN, MNL, and KUL.
QUESTION: by calendar search, you mean calendar search for premium awards on AA.com?
Finally, is there a point transfer scheme to a JAL account which could work like I could do with their competitor ANA (in which AMEX points can be transferred to ANA or SQ for booking)?
Thanks so much in advance.
First, from PHL you are going to have to connect through other gateways which JAL serves - BOS, JFK, ORD, SAN, SFO, LAX, SEA. You may be able to find PHL-TYO awards (I booked PHL-SFO-HND-SGN for instance) but often you’ll need to book from one of the other gateways to TYO.
Second, you can search by a month at a time on AA.com. Do the search for a specific day, and then there is a link to the right of the day(s) where you can view a month at a time - it shows you the dates awards are available and the lowest amount of mileage needed for each day.
Finally, none of the major transferable points currencies transfer to JAL. Marriott points do, however it’s at a 3:1 rate.