AB Award seats
Nov 28, 2013, 8:02 am
#16
Join Date: Apr 2005
Posts: 799
Same experience here (DUS-MIA route in my case) - I called in to the EXP desk and they could see availability in Y. Apparently a glitch in the AA award system displaying AB J when only Y is available.
Dec 5, 2013, 1:42 pm
#17
Suspended
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Tucson, AZ, USA. UA 1K, reluctant but * best in class * DL FO/MM. Former BA jumpseat rider and scourge of Dilbertian management and apologists. As LX might - and do - say: "....an experienced frequent flyer of international airlines"
Posts: 3,386
But even if I wanted TUS-TXL using this routing on BA there are problems.
Actually booking this on BA.COM is one obstacle. If you can concoct this and the Dilbertian website doesn't crap out, more power to you.
Another issue as you note is the per-sector Avios charge. For this redemption it requires five sectors: AA F from TUS-DFW-CUN followed by AB J CUN-DUS and AB Y DUS-TXL. The redemption mileage demand using Avios would be very much greater than AA's reasonable request ( = 50k each pax, minus the 5k returned because of AAdvantage Citi membership).
Dec 10, 2013, 11:51 am
#18
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: DFW
Programs: AA 1M
Posts: 31,475
To avoid the Dilbertian Avios surcharging on BA, I just booked AA awards on AB metal for Shark family next summer.
I could not make the itin work using any of the US gateways for the week in question. Although JFK showed availability when I searched AA.COM whenever I attempted to book it, the website returned an error message "This flight is no longer available" - Jeff Robbo style, quite disappointing from AA I must say.
I could not make the itin work using any of the US gateways for the week in question. Although JFK showed availability when I searched AA.COM whenever I attempted to book it, the website returned an error message "This flight is no longer available" - Jeff Robbo style, quite disappointing from AA I must say.
Thanks for that idea.
Jan 1, 2014, 11:44 am
#19
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: C1, C1.5 C2
Programs: aa ua dl jb starwood marriott hyatt
Posts: 442
I did AB TXL-MIA last month in economy with points and have done the reverse in the past. Usually can't book online and have to call for the reservation. AB does a good job. The food is good, free wine, the staff nice, you usually can find open seats so it's not as cramped as AA's flights and they have back of the seats players with movies, books, tv shows, music which helps the time fly by. They also darken the cabin at night and don't wake you up.