jiangning

My ORD-SFO outbound today was cancelled by UA due to MX. I have a SJC-ORD ticket on AA tomorrow afternoon. UA automatically rebooked me to tomorrow morning, which makes my trip in vain. I have already called UA to cancel and refund. I'm wondering if it is possible to ask AA to refund for the return ticket.
I don't expect AA to refund due to UA's fault, but just wanted to ask in case this is actually possible.

DWFI

No way unless you had it on the same ticket number.

jiangning

No, they are separate tickets..

DWFI

Unfortunately you're out of luck then

Even if both directions were on AA (but separate tickets) you would likely have to fight a bit to get AA to refund the return as an in-vain as well.

chicago747

Has anyone ever had any luck getting AA to refund the return portion of a trip where the first leg is cancelled and it is booked as 2 one ways? I tend to book a lot of my round-trips as one-ways and luckily have never had an issue. But I have always wondered how likely they are to refund the return leg if the outbound is cancelled because of their issue.

sokolov

That will become even more of an issue as they have now made many mutli-city itineraries very expensive.

gengar

AA did this for me last year without any argument.

Exec_Plat

There was no other way to get from ORD to [SFO or SJC or OAK] today?

ThreeJulietTango

AA did recently revise their trip in vain policy, but I think the odds of success are slim if the return is on a different carrier.

jiangning

I checked, only options were routed through LAX. I didn't bother to do the trip since the whole point was to ride a 747 on a cheap ticket.

N1120A

If you were on UA or even another *A carrier, it wouldn't be an issue. Separate tickets on separate carriers in separate alliances means you are likely SOL.

DWFI

Interesting. I had to fight tooth and nail when it happened to me.

gengar

Very likely a YMMV issue. I had AA agents voluntarily waive change fees a few times last year too, while other times I asked if the fee could be waived and was flatly denied.

RogerD408

If you don't call, the chances are pretty much zero.

If you do call and give a good explanation why you were taking the trip in the first place, you might find a sympathetic agent that will allow it. If they believe you were working to improve your position with AA (more EQMs for status, RDMs for an upcoming trip), you might get further than saying you needed UA miles for something.

Good luck.

jeffeverde

First time dealing with a weather delay and missed connections-

Flight thru DFW was diverted to Wichita Falls due to weather. But my connection was also diverted, so I was golden --- until they decided to ground the connection in TUL, and bring in another plane - which of course departed as my plane pulled up to the gate. (all flights AA)

AA can't get me to my destination (YYZ), until tomorrow night (a 19 hour delay) - at which point I've missed my meeting, and there's no reason to go to Toronto. There's a morning flight on AC that would get me to YYZ at 10am. Do I have any recourse to have AA put me on the earliest flight, or am I SOL because it's weather-related?

If AA doesn't have to put me on the "other carrier" flight, what about simply cancelling my DFW-YYZ-DFW legs, and catching the next flight home (SAN)?

(sorry if this is the wrong place - I found a similar post here)