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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Jun 21, 15, 11:28 am
#361
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Sorry to hear that And thank you for the reply. We got the flight, fortunately we completely ignored all advice from aa and called back and got put through shortly before noon eastern (maybe it posted at midnight a day later in hong kong time? Hard to come up with a reason for any other posting time between 8 and 1145 eastern).
No clue why this isn't more systematic for something thoroughly automated that occurs every single day! I understand aa agents don't really care that much but the amount of misinformation even among fliers discussing the subject is incredible.
No clue why this isn't more systematic for something thoroughly automated that occurs every single day! I understand aa agents don't really care that much but the amount of misinformation even among fliers discussing the subject is incredible.
Jun 21, 15, 11:44 am
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Originally Posted by gutenmorgan
Sorry to hear that And thank you for the reply. We got the flight, fortunately we completely ignored all advice from aa and called back and got put through shortly before noon eastern (maybe it posted at midnight a day later in hong kong time? Hard to come up with a reason for any other posting time between 8 and 1145 eastern).
No clue why this isn't more systematic for something thoroughly automated that occurs every single day! I understand aa agents don't really care that much but the amount of misinformation even among fliers discussing the subject is incredible.
No clue why this isn't more systematic for something thoroughly automated that occurs every single day! I understand aa agents don't really care that much but the amount of misinformation even among fliers discussing the subject is incredible.
Jun 21, 15, 8:40 pm
#363
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Originally Posted by Red259
I feel like AA agents are hit or miss. I have had some that would just say whatever it took to get me off the phone even if it was a complete lie and others that would actually check with supervisors and do everything they can to help me. I think the fault here lies with the AA training and management, because clearly the representatives on the phones are not being given the information thy need to accurately answer customers questions.
Jul 5, 15, 8:35 pm
#364
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I'm looking at booking a BA F award ex-Japan to Berlin (via LHR) and checking the ITA Matrix tool I see the YQ would be about $USD 150 which does not seem too bad as this seems to be my best option for a premium class award using AA miles ex-SYD. (i.e. I would do SYD-NRT on JL in J as F not offered on this route, overnight < 24 hours, then BA F as above).
I just noticed that the BA YQ is a lot less when flying ex-Asia than ex-USA or ex-SYD - is this a discrepancy or what??
(Note I am looking at end May 2015 and cannot really come up with a better option considering current availability. I know EY is an option, even though it requires 2 awards to transit the Middle East but EY is currently only available in J ex SYD with connections from AUH to TXL on AB or other options via DXB).
I just noticed that the BA YQ is a lot less when flying ex-Asia than ex-USA or ex-SYD - is this a discrepancy or what??
(Note I am looking at end May 2015 and cannot really come up with a better option considering current availability. I know EY is an option, even though it requires 2 awards to transit the Middle East but EY is currently only available in J ex SYD with connections from AUH to TXL on AB or other options via DXB).
Jul 8, 15, 3:52 pm
#365
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Award Travel Planning
I plan to take some time off in August and would like to make the best use of my rewards mile to travel on AA or a partner airline. I'm open to location.
I've used the Award Map tool on the AA website to search for "where my miles will take me" and found it primarily returns AA flights and not Oneworld partner flights.
Is there a better way to see where I can travel on a certain number of award miles that includes partner flights?
I've used the Award Map tool on the AA website to search for "where my miles will take me" and found it primarily returns AA flights and not Oneworld partner flights.
Is there a better way to see where I can travel on a certain number of award miles that includes partner flights?
Jul 8, 15, 4:20 pm
#366
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Wirelessly posted (BlackBerry: BlackBerry8530/5.0.0.1030 Profile/MIDP-2.1 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/417)
AA's Partner award chart (click on the "AAdvantage tab" at aa.com) will show you how many miles are required per one-way award between any two zones. But the chart will not tell you whether award seats are available on any particular route on any particular date. An award search from the aa.com homepage will reveal that, but only for the dozen or so "Participating Airlines" that aa.com supports for award booking. For other AA partner airlines, you must call AA, or use some third-party site.
AA's Partner award chart (click on the "AAdvantage tab" at aa.com) will show you how many miles are required per one-way award between any two zones. But the chart will not tell you whether award seats are available on any particular route on any particular date. An award search from the aa.com homepage will reveal that, but only for the dozen or so "Participating Airlines" that aa.com supports for award booking. For other AA partner airlines, you must call AA, or use some third-party site.
Jul 9, 15, 3:12 pm
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Trying to fly US-South Africa next summer. Am I correct in saying that I can fly Qatar for 75K miles in J, but would have to get 2 seperate tickets for Etihad?
Jul 9, 15, 3:55 pm
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Originally Posted by ChiefNWA
Trying to fly US-South Africa next summer. Am I correct in saying that I can fly Qatar for 75K miles in J, but would have to get 2 seperate tickets for Etihad?
Jul 16, 15, 3:24 pm
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Originally Posted by ChiefNWA
Trying to fly US-South Africa next summer. Am I correct in saying that I can fly Qatar for 75K miles in J, but would have to get 2 seperate tickets for Etihad?
Leads me to really believe spg transfers 1:1.25 AS miles is better than the current 1:1.5 AA miles transfer (with bonus). Plus the routing rules allow for a stopover on 1 ways. I'd do one way qatar and one way using the AS miles, of course you might need to sign up for 2+ cc if your AS account is dry.
good luck!
Jul 21, 15, 7:50 am
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Does anyone know if you can book Cinnamon Air flights with AA miles? They're ULs domestic sub. They're listed on the OW map as 'UL operated by Cinnamon Air' but I cant work out if they're a OW affiliate member.
Jul 21, 15, 8:22 am
#371
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Originally Posted by smit0847
Does anyone know if you can book Cinnamon Air flights with AA miles? They're ULs domestic sub. They're listed on the OW map as 'UL operated by Cinnamon Air' but I cant work out if they're a OW affiliate member.
Jul 21, 15, 9:35 am
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Indeed, at least check, internal file for UL shows:
Affiliates/Codeshares
None
None
Jul 21, 15, 4:01 pm
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Adding segments to already ticketed award..
Is there a $100 fee for adding additional segments to an already issued award ticket?
One agent didn't charge me when I added one segment.. and when I called in today to add another segment, this one wanted to and so I declined...
I'm Plat.
Would Exec Plats be exempt from this fee then?
One agent didn't charge me when I added one segment.. and when I called in today to add another segment, this one wanted to and so I declined...
I'm Plat.
Would Exec Plats be exempt from this fee then?
Jul 21, 15, 7:42 pm
#374
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Originally Posted by Guy Betsy
Is there a $100 fee for adding additional segments to an already issued award ticket?
One agent didn't charge me when I added one segment.. and when I called in today to add another segment, this one wanted to and so I declined...
I'm Plat.
Would Exec Plats be exempt from this fee then?
One agent didn't charge me when I added one segment.. and when I called in today to add another segment, this one wanted to and so I declined...
I'm Plat.
Would Exec Plats be exempt from this fee then?
As long as your origin and destination don't change, there is generally no fee for changing the routing, with a few caveats.
Jul 21, 15, 10:00 pm
#375
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Originally Posted by Guy Betsy
Is there a $100 fee for adding additional segments to an already issued award ticket?
One agent didn't charge me when I added one segment.. and when I called in today to add another segment, this one wanted to and so I declined...
I'm Plat.
Would Exec Plats be exempt from this fee then?
One agent didn't charge me when I added one segment.. and when I called in today to add another segment, this one wanted to and so I declined...
I'm Plat.
Would Exec Plats be exempt from this fee then?
