Booking AA Award travel on Etihad / EY - [2015-17 ARCHIVE]
Mar 29, 2016, 1:49 pm
#1336
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Oakland, CA
Posts: 1,231
Need a second opinion on my situation. I'm scheduled to fly in 3 weeks from SFO-JFK-AUH, currently on the JFK-AUH on the Jet Airways plane in first for 2 people. Of course, I'd like to get on the a380, but there are only 2 seats available for purchase. Chances are probably very low that they will release the last 2 seats for award travel, even at the last minute.
Should I switch to the SFO-AUH direct flight? The date I want currently has one seat taken out of 8. Would you just switch to direct and avoid the hassle if the chances are slim to get on the 380? Or should I hold out? Thanks!
Should I switch to the SFO-AUH direct flight? The date I want currently has one seat taken out of 8. Would you just switch to direct and avoid the hassle if the chances are slim to get on the 380? Or should I hold out? Thanks!
Mar 29, 2016, 2:03 pm
#1337
Join Date: Mar 2012
Posts: 989
Need a second opinion on my situation. I'm scheduled to fly in 3 weeks from SFO-JFK-AUH, currently on the JFK-AUH on the Jet Airways plane in first for 2 people. Of course, I'd like to get on the a380, but there are only 2 seats available for purchase. Chances are probably very low that they will release the last 2 seats for award travel, even at the last minute.
Should I switch to the SFO-AUH direct flight? The date I want currently has one seat taken out of 8. Would you just switch to direct and avoid the hassle if the chances are slim to get on the 380? Or should I hold out? Thanks!
Should I switch to the SFO-AUH direct flight? The date I want currently has one seat taken out of 8. Would you just switch to direct and avoid the hassle if the chances are slim to get on the 380? Or should I hold out? Thanks!
Mar 29, 2016, 5:24 pm
#1338
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: NYC
Programs: BA Gold, HH Diamond, Marriott Gold
Posts: 1,261
Need a second opinion on my situation. I'm scheduled to fly in 3 weeks from SFO-JFK-AUH, currently on the JFK-AUH on the Jet Airways plane in first for 2 people. Of course, I'd like to get on the a380, but there are only 2 seats available for purchase. Chances are probably very low that they will release the last 2 seats for award travel, even at the last minute.
Should I switch to the SFO-AUH direct flight? The date I want currently has one seat taken out of 8. Would you just switch to direct and avoid the hassle if the chances are slim to get on the 380? Or should I hold out? Thanks!
Should I switch to the SFO-AUH direct flight? The date I want currently has one seat taken out of 8. Would you just switch to direct and avoid the hassle if the chances are slim to get on the 380? Or should I hold out? Thanks!
Mar 29, 2016, 6:44 pm
#1339
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: SFO
Programs: Marriott LT Plat; WoH Exp; AS Gold; AA Plat
Posts: 369
Availability on the transcon segment on AA should also be factored into the equation. SFO-AUH seems to be wide open with not many takers.
Mar 29, 2016, 7:58 pm
#1340
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Oakland, CA
Posts: 1,231
Yes switching to sfo direct flight would mean I give up my first seats from sfo to jfk. Not sure if it's worth it?
Mar 29, 2016, 8:21 pm
#1341
Join Date: May 2012
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Programs: VA WP, NZ *A SG
Posts: 529
How far in advance is everyone finding availability? Ive not found anything ex-330 days out in F on the AUH-JFK or AUH-LHR route. Are closer in dates opening easier ala 2-3 weeks before departure?
Could a strategy be when F on the 777 opens to book it and then wait for the A380 to open and move over?
Could a strategy be when F on the 777 opens to book it and then wait for the A380 to open and move over?
Unfortunately the current last minute trends are that on the whole seats are being released less than 24 hours in advance last minute. There's the odd F seat available in advance but for most flights on this route its sometimes as little as 8-10 hours in advance that it becomes an award which is obviously very difficult to book through partners!
The days I'm looking at next month are lightly loaded flights (F5s, J7s) so I'm hoping EY become a bit more generous. Its very frustrating with how inconsistent they are last minute - I much prefer CX and SQ's reliability!
Mar 29, 2016, 9:46 pm
#1342
Join Date: Sep 2008
Posts: 7,875
I have been trying to replicate it on AA's website, but somehow multi-city search now adds up costs per segment (I didn't think it worked that way before) regardless of whether it falls within the stopover window.
Mar 30, 2016, 1:08 pm
#1343
Join Date: Jan 2010
Posts: 706
Can anyone provide clarity on when awards can be booked with EY (using AA miles) at the end of the schedule? For instance:
- What time in EST?
- Does it matter about the timezone of the departing flight?
- Is it 330 days or 331 days?
- What time in EST?
- Does it matter about the timezone of the departing flight?
- Is it 330 days or 331 days?
Mar 30, 2016, 2:26 pm
#1344
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: YYZ
Programs: AA LT Plat, AC 25K, Marriott Plat, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 1,137
I'm booked on LAX-JFK-AUH-RUH and today I found out that I need to spend a couple of days in AUH. So I want to drop the AUH-RUH segment off of my ticket. I've read that that's allowed per memo from 2011, but I wonder if that applies to to Etihad ticket booked with AA miles. Is that possible?
I ask because I have a YYZ-AUH-KHI, KHI-AUH-YYZ award booked, and want to drop the AUH-KHI segment (go elsewhere from AUH, and make my own way to KHI).
Mar 30, 2016, 2:38 pm
#1345
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: BOS
Programs: AA EXP, DL PM, Hyatt Diamond
Posts: 2,028
I have ticketed a literal countless number of awards that have a >4 hour layover in the US before continuing on to an international destination (or vice versa).
Mar 30, 2016, 4:25 pm
#1346
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Shouldn't this be allowed, per https://www.flickr.com/photos/54131097@N07/14520915433/
I ask because I have a YYZ-AUH-KHI, KHI-AUH-YYZ award booked, and want to drop the AUH-KHI segment (go elsewhere from AUH, and make my own way to KHI).
I ask because I have a YYZ-AUH-KHI, KHI-AUH-YYZ award booked, and want to drop the AUH-KHI segment (go elsewhere from AUH, and make my own way to KHI).
So, while I'd -assume- you can make that drop-- since it would have been $150-fee-free pre-deval-- and, again, there seems to be a very high correlation in the collective experience-- you'll have to ask again and see, nothing I can offer that you can point to beyond that page, which, quite reasonably, could be dismissed with a "so what-- what is that supposed to prove?" if an agent was so-inclined.
Mar 30, 2016, 9:23 pm
#1347
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: SFO
Programs: Marriott LT Plat; WoH Exp; AS Gold; AA Plat
Posts: 369
Even though EY flights are available to book on AA at the 330 day mark, F availability doesn't always appear concurrently for those flights. Sometimes that may take another 10 to 14 days after the schedule opens.
Last edited by arfaczar; Mar 30, 2016 at 9:28 pm
Mar 31, 2016, 12:05 am
#1348
Join Date: Sep 2008
Posts: 7,875
If you do a multi-city award search on AA.com, you need to put it on hold and then call in and have the rate desk manually reprice it. It's a bug with the AA website.
I have ticketed a literal countless number of awards that have a >4 hour layover in the US before continuing on to an international destination (or vice versa).
I have ticketed a literal countless number of awards that have a >4 hour layover in the US before continuing on to an international destination (or vice versa).
Last edited by s0ssos; Mar 31, 2016 at 10:29 pm Reason: clarification
Mar 31, 2016, 1:39 am
#1349
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Join Date: Jan 2002
Posts: 44,644
CX has no rights to offer purely domestic journeys ( which JFK-LAX would be ) plus also has no fares listed for JFK-LAX
I could only see that working as 2 awards for JFK-YVR and another for YVR-LAX
Mar 31, 2016, 5:57 am
#1350
Join Date: Jan 2010
Posts: 706
(For F awards, I see they are only releasing seats on the 777).