AA oneworld & Other Airline Partner Award information, rules (master thd)
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oneworld and other airline Awards Rules, Information 2015 on NOTE: Check AA award charts for current awards costs. List of airlines you can use in redeeming awards: oneworld airlines (and their oneworld affiliates) are: Non-oneworld airlines one can redeem (MileSAAver) awards on are: Airlines that can be booked for award travel on aa.com: oneworld alliance partners All other airlines have to be requested by telephone; calling to book awards that cannot be booked online no longer incurs telephone service fees. Routing assistance, etc. Check this oneworld interactive map and timetable by Innosked to see potential routes, and you can sign up for British Airways Executive Club or Qantas Frequent Flyer to use their sites to find awards (look for the lowest level awards) you can't see on aa.com. Also see this link to AA.com listing oneworld airlines with information about each.
Originally Posted by JonNYC
(Routings allowed)
 Booking for, or changing an award to, travel sooner than 21 days out requires an early booking fee (waived for Executive Platinum members). One can not book farther out, change to closer in and evade this fee any longer (as of 16 Feb 2012) Booking Business or First awards with JL / Japan Airlines one will only be able to fly in Economy domestically in Japan, but upgrades are quite inexpensive at ¥1,000 or so per flight. See more below in "General Rules" Latest changes: AA Region Definitions* Region definitions changed again May 6, 2016. Link Links and resources:
_________________________________________________ updated 11MAY15 by hillrider. Modified and updated from JonNYC's original post in the archived thread (please feel free to update): Introduction There are two types of awards discussed below, AA Awards and oneworld and Other Airlines Awards, which are targeted to passengers traveling to a single destination. As of 1 October 2010 awards may be redeemed for travel on all British Airways flights, including previously excluded flights between the U.S. and U.K. Note that additional British Airways high YQ surcharges, as well as Iberia's lower YQ surcharges, apply based on class-of-service and market flown: see Earning and redeeming AA miles / upgrading on BA/IB; BA fuel surcharge (Oct 1, 2010) Award Rules General Rules, Routing and Connections Passenger has 4h on domestic / 23h59m international travel to connect. If there are no scheduled flights within this timeframe, regardless of availability, the passenger must take the next scheduled flight but, may not exceed 24 hours. If the connection exceeds 24 hours, it will be considered a stopover may require two awards). If there is a non-stop flight that departs after the 4h / 23h59m windows and arrives at the destination earlier than a connecting flight within the 4h / 23h59m window, the passenger may be booked on the non-stop flight. Effective on 14 Jul 2014 on an all-AA-metal award itinerary, you now have up to 18 hours to connect when traveling to/from Hawaii [[URL="http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/25730421-post993.html"]Ref] The particular carrier's Maximum Permitted Miles / MPM + 25% on a particular route. (The MPM by itself often exceeds the distance between the origin and destination airports because connections may be required.) Or, the "most significant carrier" (e.g. DFW-SFO-HKG-BKK, CX SFO-HKG is the prevailing or most significant carrier) must publish a non-constructed fare between your origin and destination. To price as a single award, AAdvantage requires the most significant carrier to publish a cash fare (non-constructed) between the origin and destination. Airline MSC would have to have a published fare from XXX to YYY that allows travel on all included airlines, and routing that you want. If the MSC only offers constructed fares between your desired origin and destination, AA will price this as two awards. Stopovers None allowed. Partner award inventories Award booking inventory classes for each carrier in the AAdvantage Award program are listed below and may be useful when on the phone with an AA rep or when checking availability. See also the Award Booking Codes page in the FlyerGuide wiki for updated information. Code:
oneworld Partners First Business Economy -------------------------------------------------------- AA - American Airlines Z U T -------------------------------------------------------- AY – Finnair U X -------------------------------------------------------- BA – British Airways Z U X -------------------------------------------------------- CX – Cathay Pacific Z U T KA - DragonAir -------------------------------------------------------- IB – Iberia U X -------------------------------------------------------- JJ - TAM Airlines O I X -------------------------------------------------------- JL – Japan Airlines (Intl) Z U T JL – Japan Airlines (Dom) Z D S -------------------------------------------------------- LA – LATAM / LAN Chile Z U T XL - LAN Ecuador LP - LAN Peru 4M - LAN Argentina -------------------------------------------------------- MH - Malaysia Airlines P U X -------------------------------------------------------- QF - QANTAS Airways P U X -------------------------------------------------------- QR - Qatar Airways Z U X -------------------------------------------------------- RJ – Royal Jordanian U X -------------------------------------------------------- S7 – S7 Airlines U E -------------------------------------------------------- UL - SriLankan Airlines -------------------------------------------------------- Other Partners First Business Economy -------------------------------------------------------- FJ – Fiji Airways U X -------------------------------------------------------- TN – Air Tahiti Nui F for Business U for Economy -------------------------------------------------------- AS – Alaska Airlines A W -------------------------------------------------------- LY – El Al Israel P X E -------------------------------------------------------- EY - Etihad O I N -------------------------------------------------------- HA – Hawaiian Airlines D T -------------------------------------------------------- General Routing Rules Routing General Rules Passenger has 4h / 23h59m to connect (depending on domestic or international travel). If there are no scheduled flights within this timeframe, regardless of availability, the passenger must take the next scheduled flight but, may not exceed 24 hours. If the connection exceeds 24 hours, it will be considered a stopover. If there is a non-stop flight that departs after the 4h / 23h59m window and arrives at the destination earlier than a connecting flight within the 4h / 23h59m window, the passenger may be booked on the non-stop flight. It is not necessary to check every flight/carrier to ensure passenger is booked on next scheduled flight. Must meet Married Segment Logic - a prospective trip may be available when searching segment by segment, yet not be bookable through from origin to destination. When selling seats for through flights and the desired inventory is not available, you cannot opt to sell the flight point-to-point. If sold point-to-point, the error response MULTIPLE SEGMENTS FOR SAME FLIGHT - SELL AS ONE SEGMENT will be received, indicating this booking is not allowed. Overriding the error check by ending the PNR twice is not acceptable. Within North America North America To/from Other Regions Travel Wholly Within or Between All Other Regions These awards do not allow a connection via North America and therefore, do not include travel on American Airlines. Travel Via a Third Region Travel via a third region is not allowed (note the exception table below). EXCEPTION TABLE: To/From Via Regions: Travel on LAN direct flights between North America and South America Region 2 are allowed. Currently, only one market, Miami to/from Buenos Aries, has direct service. These can only be booked by the liaisons. Contact support for booking assistance. For permitted changes and fees, see this post
Resources
Links to other threads of interest: MileSAAver / SAAver Award Availability - Help, Assistance & Discussion (consolidated) Help with British Airways / BA surcharge / YQ (AA award on BA, consolidated) UK APD / Air Passenger Duty charged for UK departures Award with available segments not bookable? (Married Segment issues) MileSAAver / SAAver award reduction / scarcity >= Aug 2011 onward (consolidated) Ticket or Award status: On Request, Pending, Purchased and Ticketed (consolidated) Link to archived older posts from this thread. Thanks and a tip of the hat to aktchi, eponymous-coward, guv1976, hillrider, iztok, JonNYC and others who have contributed to this wiki. 
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May 28, 15, 1:16 pm
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There is a lot of weather in south right now, which must be generating lot of calls.
When systems are over burdened, AA removes the award ticket option from reservations number.
As advised, your best bet is to try calling late in the night (say around midnight 12/11c)
When systems are over burdened, AA removes the award ticket option from reservations number.
As advised, your best bet is to try calling late in the night (say around midnight 12/11c)
May 28, 15, 4:01 pm
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Originally Posted by bmchris
I believe this has been "fixed". Anyone else confirm?
May 28, 15, 8:32 pm
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Thanks for all the suggestions guys! I'll be ringing them soon at midnight!
May 28, 15, 10:22 pm
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Originally Posted by Quarantine
Thanks for all the suggestions guys! I'll be ringing them soon at midnight!
May 29, 15, 11:03 am
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Have searched here and the Etihad success page, Booking First DUB-LHR-AUH-SYD the AA agent says its 2 awards so total AA 100,000 not the 80,000 the chart shows. This looks to be confirmed over on the success forum. Could someone point me towards the explanation of this rule, is the extra 20,000 for using 2 Etihad flights in the booking similar to what BA do when using 2 partners
Thanks
Thanks
May 29, 15, 11:19 am
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Originally Posted by xcalx
Have searched here and the Etihad success page, Booking First DUB-LHR-AUH-SYD the AA agent says its 2 awards so total AA 100,000 not the 80,000 the chart shows. This looks to be confirmed over on the success forum. Could someone point me towards the explanation of this rule, is the extra 20,000 for using 2 Etihad flights in the booking similar to what BA do when using 2 partners
Thanks
Thanks
But using any other carriers will make this 2 awards.
May 29, 15, 11:38 am
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Originally Posted by JonNYC
You cannot connect in a 3rd zone (in this case middle east) on an award, with a list of exceptions. In this case only way to connect in middle east would be using Qantas via DXB on a single flight # (for the Europe-DXB-Australia segment)
But using any other carriers will make this 2 awards.
But using any other carriers will make this 2 awards.
May 29, 15, 11:48 am
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Originally Posted by nov11
I thought QR works too (although QR only flies to MEL and PER).
May 29, 15, 11:51 am
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Originally Posted by JonNYC
Nope, not Europe-> SWP. Connection in Asia only.
May 30, 15, 3:25 am
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Originally Posted by JonNYC
You cannot connect in a 3rd zone (in this case middle east) on an award, with a list of exceptions. In this case only way to connect in middle east would be using Qantas via DXB on a single flight # (for the Europe-DXB-Australia segment)
But using any other carriers will make this 2 awards.
But using any other carriers will make this 2 awards.
May 30, 15, 3:53 pm
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Website?
Besides phone numbers, is there a website on which we can see One World partner availability? I am looking to use award tickets from LIM to Quito, Ecuador or LIM to Santiago, Chile but am having no luck but to call AA.
Thanks
Thanks
May 30, 15, 6:50 pm
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Originally Posted by ACC2008
Besides phone numbers, is there a website on which we can see One World partner availability? I am looking to use award tickets from LIM to Quito, Ecuador or LIM to Santiago, Chile but am having no luck but to call AA.
Thanks
Thanks
Jun 1, 15, 7:34 pm
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Looking at a price quote for a one way award ticket in first on BA from Athens to NYC with a connection in London. The price quote it shows me is 85000 Avios + $ 338.31. Is that 338.31 covering all fuel surcharges and taxes or will more charges be added on later in the booking process?
Jun 1, 15, 8:17 pm
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Wirelessly posted (BlackBerry: BlackBerry8530/5.0.0.1030 Profile/MIDP-2.1 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/417)
This is the AA forum; this thread is about redeeming AAdvantage miles for award travel on AA partners.
Questions about redeeming BA Avios should be posed in the FT BA forum.
Originally Posted by Red259
Looking at a price quote for a one way award ticket in first on BA from Athens to NYC with a connection in London. The price quote it shows me is 85000 Avios + $ 338.31. Is that 338.31 covering all fuel surcharges and taxes or will more charges be added on later in the booking process?
Questions about redeeming BA Avios should be posed in the FT BA forum.
Jun 1, 15, 8:22 pm
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Originally Posted by guv1976
Wirelessly posted (BlackBerry: BlackBerry8530/5.0.0.1030 Profile/MIDP-2.1 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/417)
This is the AA forum; this thread is about redeeming AAdvantage miles for award travel on AA partners.
Questions about redeeming BA Avios should be posed in the FT BA forum.
This is the AA forum; this thread is about redeeming AAdvantage miles for award travel on AA partners.
Questions about redeeming BA Avios should be posed in the FT BA forum.
