Originally Posted by
worldiswide
Is this true for partner awards as well - and would you be able to ticket a conflicting trip.. say the same day, with the same origin and a different destination.
Originally Posted by
JJeffrey
It's no different for partner awards, that is it is as long as both are fully ticketed (not on hold) then AA's system isn't going to auto-cancel one of them.
However if both are on the same carrier, then it would ultimately be up to that carrier in how they treat duplicate/overlapping bookings once they have control of the ticket within 24-48 hrs of the flight.
Not exactly the same situation, but recently I had a ticketed ATL-AA-PHL-AA-DOH-QR-AUH reservation that I decided to switch to a round-the-world ticket. I didn’t want to cancel my existing ticket until I had the new one ticketed, but because the new one had the exact same QR flight, QR kept bouncing it before I had a chance to ticket it. This was months before the flights. (With round-the-world tickets, you typically have to wait 24 hours to ticket them while the AA back office works out the fare and taxes, and it was during this 24-hour period that QR kept bouncing it.) The only way I found to get around this was to book the QR flight for a different date, and then, once I was able to ticket it and cancel my existing reservation, have AA change the QR flight to the date I wanted.