dkerr

Yes JL is Japan Airlines. You have to enter a dummy return date (or a dummy outbound date). You will still be able to see availability for the one-way segment you are interested in even though you have to search for a round-trip.

DAK

mzee10

Got it. One last question! The miles needed for the award flight is usually for roundtrip...would I need to call to see how much it is for 1 way?

dkerr

The miles listed at the JL web site are irrelevant, that is for JL members. For AAdvantage awards the miles required are listed as one-way because all AA awards now-a-days are one-way (so round trip is 2x the number of miles listed in the award table).

http://www.aa.com/i18n/AAdvantage/re...tner-chart.jsp

DAK

mzee10

Ahhhh...the JL website was throwing me off. Thank you! I finally understand

Counsellor

To mzee10 (and anyone else who is confused by the acronyms and codes used on FlyerTalk), check out the glossary.

jamienbaker

When is travel? I ticketed in December for July travel, took about 3 weeks. It's no big deal to be on request for 73 hrs unless you're flying in 80. Chill.

JIMCHI

So what, in the end, was the result?? If members are going to post about problems, please let us know how they are or aren't resolved.

progapanda

Travel was for year-end. In any case, reaching out to the Twitter team got my reservation ticketed pretty quickly.

I had other plans to finalize, but wanted to be absolutely sure my flights were solid hence the anxiety.

3 weeks to get ticketed? Unless you were mailing in a paper voucher that's just absurd.

hiima

Let's be real here, even if you're ticketed, your ticket can be yanked out from under you.

pitflyer

I see that Boston now has non stop flights to Hong Kong on Cathay. I found 2 biz class seats available on the flight I want, but the incoming flight for me is 12 hours earlier. I don't have a problem with this (go into Boston and have a day in town) but will I be able to check my bags all the way through and not have to pick up in Boston?

Basically the itinerary would be an early morning flight to Boston, and then the Cathay Flight leaves technically the next day at 1:30am (which is obviously really that night). I know stopovers aren't allowed, and this isn't a stop over ... but it will be a big pain if I have to handle my big international bags during the 12 hours or so in Boston.

Paiteaw

If you are getting to BOS on AA , checking your luggage to your final destination should no problem. If you are on a separate ticket to BOS, bring a printout to show at your connection.

pitflyer

Thanks. I did some research and it seems there is a 12 hour baggage connection rule too, my connection is 11 hours and 59 minutes!! So I'm worried if a schedule change of a couple of minutes will make it a 12+ hour connection and I won't be able to check all the way through.

Connecting through New York has the opposite problem -- connections are 23 hours and 55 minutes. Which I'm guessing if I ticket and it goes above 24 hours the ticket would still be valid.. but maybe not? Argh! I can take the safe route and connect through Chicago with a 2 hour connection, but hate back tracking, even if its relatively minor on such a long flight. And this is in February, where 2 hours is not always safe when weather hits at home or any of these connection cities.

Decisions, decisions.

dkerr

For February travel through BOS/JFK/EWR/ORD you definitely want to bake in a longer connection time. This year was particularly bad for BOS and JFK, more than once the airports shutdown completely. CX canceled some (but not all) JFK flights on some days -- note they have to do this "in anticipation" because they don't want to send a aircraft on-its-way from HKG only to discover that JFK and maybe even some alternates are shut for weather.

But it is your domestic connecting flight that is more likely to be affected than the long-haul. Which ever you chose, I'd look for a 4+ hour layover. Two hours simply leaves no room for any delays. Or look at LAX/SFO/YVR.

DAK

hiima

Anybody else notice that there's a lot less award availability. Ex lax anyway.

JY1024

Certainly nothing scientific on my end, but I haven't noticed any difference. I've been able to find and book CX F tickets for the fall out of LAX, ORD, and JFK.