Originally Posted by
QF009
Hmm - just a thought; would the printed itinerary from AA.com with the real ticket number attached to it work?
Otherwise can someone confirm whether my xONEx will be safe from AA computer cancellation if i do the dummy award return segments?
Providing a valid ticket number by any means works fine.
AA does have special software for detecting duplicate bookings, so if you had an award and OWE booking for the same name and flight/date, then it would be detected and one of them would be canceled by the software (in theory it would prevent booking the 2nd one at time of booking). But within the past couple of weeks AA seems to have changed this software to be more lenient in allowing duplicates. Still booking an award that you don't intend to use does deprive someone else of an award seat. Often canceled awards are not returned to award inventory.