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Old Jan 7, 2016, 6:15 pm
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Dropping last or first leg of an award ticket.

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Originally Posted by guv1976

There is no charge for dropping the final segment(s) of a one-way Flex award, as long as doing so does not change the award's destination zone . If you are worried about losing your free DFW stopover, then do not call to drop the MAD-TXL segment until after you have flown YYC-DFW. HOWEVER...

DO note AA has instructed agents not to drop or add segments if doing so violates a married segment rule governing that award. See More award availability restricted by married segments / connections for further information.

(Otherwise) If an AA agent (erroneously) tries to charge you a change fee, refer the agent to the February 3, 2011, internal memo entitled "Dropping OWFA segments."
Originally Posted by JonNYC
shown here with some examples:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/54131097@N07/14520915433/

Originally posted here:
http://www.travelingbetter.com/showthread.php?t=4814

Same thing, interchangeable terminology.
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Old Jan 17, 2016, 10:48 am
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Save dropping last segment of Award ticket or not?

Summer travel all on AA flights.

Zrh to jfk arriving at 1:40 P.M
LGA to DFW , leaving at 5:50 P.M, arrival at 8:58 P.M
DFW to LAX, leaving at 10:05 P.M

NEXT day
LAX to YVR - which I want to drop this segment

ORIGINAL was :

ZRH to JFK
JFK to YVR

I didn't want to pay for the change for final destination from YVR to LAX so I re-ticketed for the LAX to YVR next day.

I would be charged for YVR to LAX destination change, correct?
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Old Jan 17, 2016, 12:55 pm
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Originally Posted by metoo
Save dropping last segment of Award ticket or not?

Summer travel all on AA flights.

Zrh to jfk arriving at 1:40 P.M
LGA to DFW , leaving at 5:50 P.M, arrival at 8:58 P.M
DFW to LAX, leaving at 10:05 P.M

NEXT day
LAX to YVR - which I want to drop this segment

ORIGINAL was :

ZRH to JFK
JFK to YVR

I didn't want to pay for the change for final destination from YVR to LAX so I re-ticketed for the LAX to YVR next day.

I would be charged for YVR to LAX destination change, correct?
If the award's destination change (from YVR to LAX) is accomplished merely by dropping the LAX-YVR segment, then there should be no charge.
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Old Feb 16, 2016, 5:07 pm
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Is this rule of dropping OWFA segments only for AA operated flts?

I'm trying to drop the first segment (which I have done before on AA metal) and the res agent and the tktng agent she spoke to said they never heard of this memo and it's an involuntary change and 150.00 pp change fee. The segment I want to drop is on CX. They couldn't find the memo even when I referenced everything.
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Old Feb 16, 2016, 5:22 pm
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Originally Posted by cruisr
Is this rule of dropping OWFA segments only for AA operated flts?

I'm trying to drop the first segment (which I have done before on AA metal) and the res agent and the tktng agent she spoke to said they never heard of this memo and it's an involuntary change and 150.00 pp change fee. The segment I want to drop is on CX. They couldn't find the memo even when I referenced everything.
Obviously this is a hang-up-and-call-back situation if they say they've "never heard of this," but, is country of origin changing by any chance? If so, doesn't apply. Might not for other reasons as well, can't say from no detail provided. Here's policy:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/541310...in/dateposted/
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Old Feb 16, 2016, 5:33 pm
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Originally Posted by JonNYC
Obviously this is a hang-up-and-call-back situation if they say they've "never heard of this," but, is country of origin changing by any chance? If so, doesn't apply. Might not for other reasons as well, can't say from no detail provided. Here's policy:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/541310...in/dateposted/
Yup changing from Taiwan to Hong Kong. So it's a no go
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Old Feb 16, 2016, 5:43 pm
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Yup changing from Taiwan to Hong Kong. So it's a no go
Ah, ok, good to have an answer at least.
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Old Mar 18, 2016, 9:01 pm
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Are HKG and PVG considered the same country for dropping the first segment? Need to drop a PVG-HKG segment and can't call at this very moment so thought I would ask here so I'd know what to expect.
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Old Mar 18, 2016, 9:29 pm
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Originally Posted by Apieinthesky
Are HKG and PVG considered the same country for dropping the first segment? Need to drop a PVG-HKG segment and can't call at this very moment so thought I would ask here so I'd know what to expect.
Not 100% sure but most likely NOT considered same country.
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Old Mar 21, 2016, 9:36 am
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Originally Posted by seawolf
Not 100% sure but most likely NOT considered same country.
To report, the agent said the system initially wanted to charge me the $150 fee, but double checked and convinced a supervisor to agree to manually waive. The agent himself said this is definitely a case of "depends who you talk to."
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Old Mar 21, 2016, 9:38 am
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Originally Posted by Apieinthesky
To report, the agent said the system initially wanted to charge me the $150 fee, but double checked and convinced a supervisor to agree to manually waive. The agent himself said this is definitely a case of "depends who you talk to."
And, another fantastic example of using unique and unpublished information gleaned from FT to one's advantage. @:-)
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Old Mar 31, 2016, 12:00 pm
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Just to confirm, nobody has heard of this changing since last week's award chart change, correct?
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Old Mar 31, 2016, 12:09 pm
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Originally Posted by lowfareair
Just to confirm, nobody has heard of this changing since last week's award chart change, correct?
Seems a couple of people have done it without issue.
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Old Mar 31, 2016, 2:43 pm
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Originally Posted by JonNYC
Seems a couple of people have done it without issue.
Thanks for the info! Didn't see any posts about it on the board since the change on the 22nd.

Could it affect post-3/22 bookings though?
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Old Mar 31, 2016, 2:53 pm
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Another data point. Booked JFK-LAX-SYD in Feb. All segments AA.

Dropped JFK-LAX last week. No prob. Even ticket exchange.

Flyer has no AA status.
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Old Mar 31, 2016, 3:16 pm
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Originally Posted by Upgravy
Another data point. Booked JFK-LAX-SYD in Feb. All segments AA.

Dropped JFK-LAX last week. No prob. Even ticket exchange.

Flyer has no AA status.
Fantastic report- thanks!
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