Originally Posted by gemac
The Priceline routing is as follows:
AA 1127 Dep. STL 09:17 A.M. Arr. ORD 10:25 A.M. Oct. 12
AA 1127 Dep. ORD 11:14 A.M. Arr. SAN 01:25 P.M. Oct. 12
AA 3078 Dep. SAN 02:30 P.M. Arr. LAX 03:24 P.M. Oct. 12
AA 297 Dep. LAX 04:40 P.M. Arr. HNL 07:14 P.M. Oct. 12
AA 270 Dep. HNL 08:20 A.M. Arr. LAX 04:35 P.M. Oct. 19
AA 6780 Dep. LAX 05:50 P.M. Arr. SEA 08:25 P.M. Oct. 19
AA 852 Dep. SEA 12:15 P.M. Arr. STL 06:03 P.M. Oct. 22
If I need these exact flights, is there any way to force these exact flights out of AA.com?
3. I am assuming that these flights qualify for AA miles, EQM and EQP as if booked at AA.com (EQP @ 50%). Can't tell fare class at Priceline. Any reason why I shouldn't assume this.
You can force the fare routing on aa.com using a multi-city search (using STL-SAN, SAN-HNL, HNL-SEA, and SEA-STL as your search cities). That exact routing for those dates comes up at $632.70 per ticket.
That said, I'm not sure I'd assume that the PL ticket earns miles. Without knowing the fare code, it's not 100 percent certain that the ticket isn't some sort of consolidator fare that earns no miles. And even if it does, consider that the first two legs (STL-ORD and ORD-SAN) will only earn you the miles between STL and SAN because the flight numbers are the same. In other words, you're no better off routing that outbound through ORD, unless you want to use stickers to upgrade.
As for the fare guarantee questions, I believe that the routing must be exactly the same, but I'll defer that to someone who knows better than I do.
Mike