Which would exclude the pretty common case of a revenut TATL ticket to LHR connecting to an award BA flight within Europe. Even if both were booked through AA, it would not be easy (if at all possible) to get an itinerary/invoice showing both.

Cheers.

Before the section where the or is found it states


The or is part of the restrictions on the requirements for the conjunction to be accepted


From iata.org ( http://www.iata.org/worldwide/europe...ger_rights.pdf )

Unless it is sold as a single contract of carriage , then I cannot see any reason why the APD is not due. The reference to summary of flights is only relevent if it is a conjunction ticket

Unfortunately, this makes sense. When I read the part you've quoted it sounds to me as though it has been designed to essentially handle fare breaks when doing a single booking.

For example, I booked JFK-LAX last week on the same ticket as LAX-LAS next week so that I could apply the same SWU to both (and LAS still hasn't cleared :mad:). However the price was equal to booking each as a separate one-way and the fare bases are different for each leg.

With hindsight, this ticket might have been very good value if originally purchased with CDG included in the fare as an open jaw.

I once got a good deal CPH-LHR-DCA-LHR on AA when I needed to visit CPH before my US trip. I used a separate cheap LHR-CPH one way.

Well CPH is still a very good value (about $1,200 o/w from ORD) but CDG not so much. And since I don't care if CDG is in Y I figured I'd go as cheap as possible. The return flight also doesn't originate at CDG (BOD, actually) and there wasn't a good way to include BOD-LGW as part of the same pricing unit.

The original two tickets were from a single TA. However, since AA had to reissue the ticket for an upgrade they, in effect, became a second TA in the mix and had to reapply the cross reference to the new ticket.

I'm not saying that in practice this will be easy or even possible for the OP. However, the rules strongly suggest that it should be.

As a great philosopher once said, "In theory, practice is just like theory. In practice, it ain't."

The rule clearly states that the 2nd ticket must be a conjunction ticket and there is an IATA definition of a conjunction ticket. 2 separate unrelated bookings are not conjoined

If the agent had issued as a single itinerary , then there would be eligability for the exemption

Dave

In the instance of unassociated separate bookings I would NOT reckon on any sympathy if your American Flight is delayed and you miss the CDG connection. BA are quite tight on generosity in my experience and the financial benefits of separate bookings are significantly reduced by the uncertainty of connection. (Plethora of cheaper point to point is making them tighter). Without associated ticketing I would strongly recommend 3 hrs or more! BTW you may want to look at ORY as an alternative to CDG. BA is pushing this route and offering lower fares at the moment. I also vote for T5 lounges than AArivals or landslide at all.