Originally Posted by AmericanAirlines (Post 14898640)

- Yes this means if you’re flying first or business between TPA and ORD you can check three bags free.

- If you have received a confirmed upgrade to a Premium cabin prior to your initial bag check-in, then you will receive the increased allowance of 3 bags, with the heavy charge waived if any of the pieces are 50-70lbs. If you, however, are unable to confirm the upgrade prior to your initial bag check-in, and are only placed on a standby upgrade list, then you will only be eligible for the standard baggage allowance dependant on your frequent flier status and/or ticket.

- If you are not eligible for the increased allowance at initial bag check-in, AA will not be processing refunds if you are upgraded from a waitlist at the gate.

- At this time, no changes to the elite frequent flier baggage allowances have been made.

- Yes, for long-haul premium cabin customers traveling on AA/BA/IB customers can now check three bags and yes the heavy bag charge For bags weighing between 50 and 70 Lbs will be waived.

Happy to answer any more questions you have!! :)

Stephen @ AA

Originally Posted by hillrider (Post 14899595)

Stephen,

Thanks for attempting to reply to my question; however, I may not have made myself clear.

Let me give you a real life example. On SFO-ROM, AA has a holiday business class fare, IRHOL1SL. The rules specifically say:
Since the AA codeshare for the SFO-LRH BA-operated flights are 6187 and 6189, it follows that one cannot fly BA on this fare; what this means is that you cannot "choose the AA operated flight over to the UK and for the return flight you could choose a BA operated flight" (quoting you) because the fare rules specifically prohibit you from doing so.

Can you please pass this question on to someone else? My original question was:


Thanks again and a huge welcome on FT. And please take many comments here lightly and not personally! ;)

Originally Posted by AmericanAirlines (Post 14904054)

Unfortunately, I cannot give out information about when we are going to change fares. Stay tuned, though!

Originally Posted by AmericanAirlines (Post 14904054)

Thanks very much to you and everyone else for the welcoming. We really enjoy interacting with all of you and helping out with your questions! :)

Unfortunately, I cannot give out information about when we are going to change fares. Stay tuned, though!

Originally Posted by diaspora04 (Post 14904574)

What about Q3 earnings?

Originally Posted by GUWonder (Post 14903254)

This AA baggage fee waiver lottery sounds increasingly like the DL baggage fee waiver lottery -- even then this change is an improvement for AA customers over what was to be had earlier this year (and for quite some time prior) by AA customers.

I'm curious if BA is going to start providing us AA EXPs and Plats with the same free baggage allowance that BA provides BA Silvers and Golds. As of yesterday, BA still doesn't seem to care about treating AA EXPs and Plats the same as BA Silvers and Golds when it comes to baggage allowance (and a variety of other at the airport benefits). [Fortunately, AA treats BA Silvers and Golds the same as AA EXPs and Plats when it comes to free baggage allowance for a given cabin]. Will there be a harmonization in this area as well? [I'm just hoping that this doesn't turn out to be like the dysfunctional arrangement that DL elites have to endure when dealing with AF-KL.]

On a side-note, I found the use of "takes effect" for something that has already taken effect to be interesting. Or is the date it "takes effect" October 1st, 2011? I'm going with 2010 and a cut & paste not being revised. :o

Originally Posted by bigbird090 (Post 14903836)

What about ALL Translatlantic flights flown by BA or IB to Europe?

I ask because I am now based in PTY and would like to take PTY-MAD on IB but if I do not get full mileage, i would consider going on another airline.

Good to see that AA has Flyertalk presence now!

Originally Posted by ctownflyer (Post 14905561)

Amazing that with Star Gold I get 3x70lb. bags on every Star carrier even in coach, yet OW is unable to come up with anything even remotely competitive.

Originally Posted by JDiver (Post 14906480)

From this flyer's perspective, I wonder how many actually check in with three seventy lb / 32 kg bags? Even with my dive gear, one (or possibly two) 50 lb bags more than suffice, so I wonder if it's mostly window dressing. Of course, we are deficient in so many ways - maybe we will soon have oneworld blocking. ;)

Originally Posted by JDiver (Post 14906480)

From this flyer's perspective, I wonder how many actually check in with three seventy lb / 32 kg bags? Even with my dive gear, one (or possibly two) 50 lb bags more than suffice, so I wonder if it's mostly window dressing. Of course, we are deficient in so many ways - maybe we will soon have oneworld blocking. ;)

Originally Posted by GUWonder (Post 14906961)

So far the government-enabled AA/BA/IB collusion doesn't appear to be as lousy a game for customers as the DL/AF/KL game, but even the DL/AF-KL ugliness took time to become as ugly as it is. I was hoping that AA wouldn't be borrowing so much from the DL playbook, but here we have it.

Originally Posted by bernardd (Post 14899522)

Oh dear, poor BA, they're going to have to cancel service to SEA, SFO, PHX, DEN, IAH, ATL, TPA, MCO, PHL, IAD, DWI, and maybe BOS then.

The whole point is BA flies to points is the US that are not served by AA non-stops and AA flies to points in Europe that are not served by BA non-stops - think FRA, CDG, BRU, MAN, MAD, BCN, MXP, FCO, ZRH and probably others.