Sep 28, 2013, 10:20 pm
Last edit by: Prospero
oneworld and non-oneworld airline awards currently bookable on AA.com:
AA, AS, AY, BA, FJ, IB, HA, JL, MH, QF, RJ
The current, up-to-date list of airlines that can be booked online for AAdvantage awards is at this link.
Airlines that can be booked for award travel on aa.com:
oneworld alliance partners
NOTE: To search for partner awards, go to advanced search from the awards search or home page and select all airlines.
For travel using AAdvantage miles on other airlines, you must call reservations (you only pay the applicable "optional" fee for if you can book online but choose to call).
List of airlines you can use in redeeming awards:
oneworld airlines (and their oneworld affiliates) are:
AA, AS, AY, BA, FJ, IB, HA, JL, MH, QF, RJ
The current, up-to-date list of airlines that can be booked online for AAdvantage awards is at this link.
Airlines that can be booked for award travel on aa.com:
oneworld alliance partners
- AA - American Airlines
- BA - British Airways (awards incur YQ airline imposed surcharge)
- AY - Finnair
- IB - Iberia*
- JL - Japan Airlines
- MH - Malaysia Airlines
- QF - Qantas
- RJ - Royal Jordanian Airlines
- Now QR and SL are bookable too
- AS - Alaska Airlines
- FJ - Fiji Airlines
- HA - Hawaiian Airlines
NOTE: To search for partner awards, go to advanced search from the awards search or home page and select all airlines.
For travel using AAdvantage miles on other airlines, you must call reservations (you only pay the applicable "optional" fee for if you can book online but choose to call).
List of airlines you can use in redeeming awards:
oneworld airlines (and their oneworld affiliates) are:
- AA - American Airlines and American Eagle
- BA - British Airways (and BA Cityflyer, Comair, Eastern Airways, Open Skies, Sun Air of Scandinavia, BA Limited) (incurs high YQ surcharge)
- CX - Cathay Pacific (and KA - Dragonair)
- AY - Finnair (and Privilege Style, Flybe Finland)
- IB - Iberia (and Air Nostrum, Iberia Express) (incurs YQ surcharge)
- JL - Japan Airlines (and J-Air)
- LA - LAN (and LAN Express, LAN Colombia, LP - LAN Peru)
- MH - Malaysia Airlines
- RJ - Royal Jordanian
- QF - Qantas (and QantasLink, Jetconnect)
- QR - Qatar Airways
- S7 - S7 (and Globus)
- UL - SriLankan Airlines
- JJ - TAM
- AS - Alaska Airlines
- EY - Etihad
- FJ - Fiji Airways
- GF - Gulf Air
- HA - Hawaiian Airlines
- TN - Air Tahiti Nui
9W - Jet Airways (India)(not partner any more)
AA award bookable on AA.com (AA, AS, AY, BA, FJ, IB, HA, JL, MH, QF, RJ)
Mar 3, 2022, 12:44 am
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I have an AA award booking in J from MEL to LHR via Tokyo on JL and AY.
With the Ukraine situation its looking like the flights will either be cancelled or retimed to misconnect. I cant see any other award seats for those dates on another route (QF/MH/QR etc). Does AA have responsibility to rebook me or will they just refund my points?
Thanks!
With the Ukraine situation its looking like the flights will either be cancelled or retimed to misconnect. I cant see any other award seats for those dates on another route (QF/MH/QR etc). Does AA have responsibility to rebook me or will they just refund my points?
Thanks!
AA *may* be willing to open up additional award seats on their own flights to accommodate you, but there’s no guarantee that will happen. And you’d still need to find partner availability from MEL to another airport where you can get on an AA flight since AA doesn’t fly to MEL.
Last edited by WindowSeatFlyer; Mar 3, 2022 at 1:35 am
Mar 9, 2022, 3:51 am
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Just a data point about booking AY online.
I wanted an award ticket, starting in PHX, through ORD, then flying to HEL and on to FCO in J. Both AY segments had award space in J. When I priced it on the website, setting HEL as the final destination, it was fine (priced at 57.5k miles). When I set the final destination to FCO it only showed me AA routings, for ~300k miles.
I put the flight to HEL on hold and called in. The AA EXP desk agent was able to add the HEL-FCO leg with no issues (it did not break any routing rules, and did not increase the mileage cost). The whole call took only a couple of minutes. I then purchased it.
So, yes, it is bookable online, but it seems that if there are enough AA routings that will get you to the same destination, it will show pages and pages of those and never show the partner routing, even if you click "show more" all the way to the end (I assume that this problem is not limited to AY)
I wanted an award ticket, starting in PHX, through ORD, then flying to HEL and on to FCO in J. Both AY segments had award space in J. When I priced it on the website, setting HEL as the final destination, it was fine (priced at 57.5k miles). When I set the final destination to FCO it only showed me AA routings, for ~300k miles.
I put the flight to HEL on hold and called in. The AA EXP desk agent was able to add the HEL-FCO leg with no issues (it did not break any routing rules, and did not increase the mileage cost). The whole call took only a couple of minutes. I then purchased it.
So, yes, it is bookable online, but it seems that if there are enough AA routings that will get you to the same destination, it will show pages and pages of those and never show the partner routing, even if you click "show more" all the way to the end (I assume that this problem is not limited to AY)
Mar 9, 2022, 8:46 am
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I have booked Y partner award flights JFK-HEL for a party of five (5) in June 2022 on AY with hopes of rebooking in J if J seats become available. Expert Flyer reports J9 n both the outbound and the return but award inventory is currently unavailable through EF. It has been a while since I flew AY, and I do not recall having an issue with award availability in J on AY when there are a bunch of seats left in J. Perhaps policies have changed. In any case, does anyone have experience with AY J availability for AA partner awards?
Thank you.
diaspora04
Thank you.
diaspora04
Mar 9, 2022, 8:55 am
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I have booked Y partner award flights JFK-HEL for a party of five (5) in June 2022 on AY with hopes of rebooking in J if J seats become available. Expert Flyer reports J9 n both the outbound and the return but award inventory is currently unavailable through EF. It has been a while since I flew AY, and I do not recall having an issue with award availability in J on AY when there are a bunch of seats left in J. Perhaps policies have changed. In any case, does anyone have experience with AY J availability for AA partner awards?
Thank you.
diaspora04
Thank you.
diaspora04
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Mar 9, 2022, 11:05 am
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Apr 2, 2022, 2:11 pm
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I booked an upcoming mid April award flight using AA miles on IB, one way Granada GRX to Toulouse TLS. When I manage the booking on Iberia, it is asking for baggage fee $50 per bag and per segment! Flight has two segments with stopover in Madrid. I was able to get seat assignments, but left the baggage option open. I thought bags are free on award travel, is this not the case?
Today, a few days later, I was able to check in and get a boarding pass, but it never asked for baggage information. My wife and I usually check one bag per person. Very strange, is this an error?
Today, a few days later, I was able to check in and get a boarding pass, but it never asked for baggage information. My wife and I usually check one bag per person. Very strange, is this an error?
Apr 2, 2022, 2:45 pm
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I booked an upcoming mid April award flight using AA miles on IB, one way Granada GRX to Toulouse TLS. When I manage the booking on Iberia, it is asking for baggage fee $50 per bag and per segment! Flight has two segments with stopover in Madrid. I was able to get seat assignments, but left the baggage option open. I thought bags are free on award travel, is this not the case?
Today, a few days later, I was able to check in and get a boarding pass, but it never asked for baggage information. My wife and I usually check one bag per person. Very strange, is this an error?
Today, a few days later, I was able to check in and get a boarding pass, but it never asked for baggage information. My wife and I usually check one bag per person. Very strange, is this an error?
I assume that you have a connection -- not a stopover -- in Madrid, so your baggage should be checked through to your final destination. The AAdvantage program does not permit stopovers on a single award.
Apr 2, 2022, 3:40 pm
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Your award ticket receipt from AA should indicate the cost -- if any -- of a first checked bag. What does your receipt say? If it indicates that the first checked bag is free for each passenger, print the receipt, and bring it with you to your departure airport.
I assume that you have a connection -- not a stopover -- in Madrid, so your baggage should be checked through to your final destination. The AAdvantage program does not permit stopovers on a single award.
I assume that you have a connection -- not a stopover -- in Madrid, so your baggage should be checked through to your final destination. The AAdvantage program does not permit stopovers on a single award.
I found the receipt and it indicates that the 1st bag is no charge. It appears the problem is with Iberia. It is booked in Premium Economy for both flights.
Apr 2, 2022, 4:04 pm
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Very good. (On international itineraries, anything less than 24 hours is usually considered a connection.)
Apr 7, 2022, 8:27 am
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Looking for advice as this is getting frustrating. Had C award to PPT via HEL and NRT, but TN cancelled NRT flights until end of October.
Called to rebook and used EF to find that there are 2 seats on SEA-PPT on TN (supposedly the most difficult part). Agent could not find them, so asked me to do a booking, so I did and gave her record locator. I still have that booking on hold. However, they don’t seem to be able to add ANY C routing to SEA, though I am able to find many options (though with rather inconvenient night layovers, but what the heck) they do not see those available or unable to add them, only quoting additional milage payment. Spend couple of hours already. There is no stopover or anything.
Is this HUCA situation or am I missing something which would prevent EU-US-PPT routing with this involuntary change?
Called to rebook and used EF to find that there are 2 seats on SEA-PPT on TN (supposedly the most difficult part). Agent could not find them, so asked me to do a booking, so I did and gave her record locator. I still have that booking on hold. However, they don’t seem to be able to add ANY C routing to SEA, though I am able to find many options (though with rather inconvenient night layovers, but what the heck) they do not see those available or unable to add them, only quoting additional milage payment. Spend couple of hours already. There is no stopover or anything.
Is this HUCA situation or am I missing something which would prevent EU-US-PPT routing with this involuntary change?
Apr 7, 2022, 8:59 am
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Looking for advice as this is getting frustrating. Had C award to PPT via HEL and NRT, but TN cancelled NRT flights until end of October.
Called to rebook and used EF to find that there are 2 seats on SEA-PPT on TN (supposedly the most difficult part). Agent could not find them, so asked me to do a booking, so I did and gave her record locator. I still have that booking on hold. However, they don’t seem to be able to add ANY C routing to SEA, though I am able to find many options (though with rather inconvenient night layovers, but what the heck) they do not see those available or unable to add them, only quoting additional milage payment. Spend couple of hours already. There is no stopover or anything.
Is this HUCA situation or am I missing something which would prevent EU-US-PPT routing with this involuntary change?
Called to rebook and used EF to find that there are 2 seats on SEA-PPT on TN (supposedly the most difficult part). Agent could not find them, so asked me to do a booking, so I did and gave her record locator. I still have that booking on hold. However, they don’t seem to be able to add ANY C routing to SEA, though I am able to find many options (though with rather inconvenient night layovers, but what the heck) they do not see those available or unable to add them, only quoting additional milage payment. Spend couple of hours already. There is no stopover or anything.
Is this HUCA situation or am I missing something which would prevent EU-US-PPT routing with this involuntary change?
Apr 7, 2022, 10:05 am
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So theoretically going EU-DOH-AKL-PPT would be valid routing? Theres availability as well, but the trip takes much longer.
Apr 26, 2022, 5:23 am
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