Domestic Connections on J/F International Awards Only Available in Y ?
Oct 15, 2015, 9:52 am
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Domestic Connections on J/F International Awards Only Available in Y ?
Hi all,
I am posting this in the "Combined" section as it involves a future trip.
When surfing AA.com for availablity of a J/F European MilesAAver award, it now indicates all domestic connections (eg: LGA-MIA before MIA-CDG) as available ONLY in Coach, with a red mention: "Premium cabin not available on one flight"
This appears to be systematic on all the flights and dates combinations I looked at.
Is this a glitch, a coincidence, or a new restrictive policy ? My previous experience was that the domestic part of such trips was far easier to find in F than the international component in J/F.
Thanks for your inputs.
I am posting this in the "Combined" section as it involves a future trip.
When surfing AA.com for availablity of a J/F European MilesAAver award, it now indicates all domestic connections (eg: LGA-MIA before MIA-CDG) as available ONLY in Coach, with a red mention: "Premium cabin not available on one flight"
This appears to be systematic on all the flights and dates combinations I looked at.
Is this a glitch, a coincidence, or a new restrictive policy ? My previous experience was that the domestic part of such trips was far easier to find in F than the international component in J/F.
Thanks for your inputs.
Oct 15, 2015, 10:08 am
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Are you finding F SAAver award seats available on LGA-MIA as a stand-alone redemption?
Are you finding F SAAver award seats available on LGA-MIA as a stand-alone redemption?
Oct 15, 2015, 10:08 am
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I see some coach + business itins, but I also see some first + first + business itins on DTW-CDG. So no, domestic segments in coach doesn't appear to be a policy for TATL business saver awards.
Maybe they think a LGA-CDG traveler really ought to make his way to JFK.
Maybe they think a LGA-CDG traveler really ought to make his way to JFK.
Oct 15, 2015, 2:37 pm
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My experience has not been as such. I find AA SAAver availability for feeder flights to be generally quite terrible. I've had CX F itineraries busted by the lack of DCA-JFK options (of course in that case I just bought the ticket cash).
Oct 15, 2015, 5:57 pm
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Oct 16, 2015, 10:06 am
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Seems to be a policy change, but only on certain flights. When I looked for CDG-MIA-STL in J, the MIA-STL leg books in F via CLT, but Y via DFW or ORD (or nonstop in the 319 *shudder*) unless it was the late, late hub flight.Does anyone know if this at least gets you MCE on the domestic leg?
Oct 16, 2015, 10:19 am
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Am glad to see this posting.
My experience lately has been the exact opposite to/from GIG (Rio) and GRU (Sao Paulo) - Milesaver domestic award space available to/from SFO/LAX in premium cabin, but international now being booked T-class (economy) to/from the MIA/JFK gateway. (Fare is 50K miles nonetheless). Seems to me to be a policy decision. Is that effectively having a devaluation of the Milesaver award by making one leg of these multi-leg itineraries basically stand-by for the premium cabin?
Anyone else having this experience?
My experience lately has been the exact opposite to/from GIG (Rio) and GRU (Sao Paulo) - Milesaver domestic award space available to/from SFO/LAX in premium cabin, but international now being booked T-class (economy) to/from the MIA/JFK gateway. (Fare is 50K miles nonetheless). Seems to me to be a policy decision. Is that effectively having a devaluation of the Milesaver award by making one leg of these multi-leg itineraries basically stand-by for the premium cabin?
Anyone else having this experience?
