AA Award booking: Different pricing based on itinerary?
Dec 5, 2018, 6:55 pm
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AA Award booking: Different pricing based on itinerary?
I'm looking to book an award ticket in business class from MIA to MAD sometime in the summer (date is flexible). If I search for that exact itinerary, I find availability on Tuesday July 16 on AA68 for 110K miles. But, if I search from LGA to MAD, I get an itinerary from LGA-MIA-MAD, with the exact same AA68 flight from MIA to MAD, for 57.5K miles. Is there a way to get the business class MIA-MAD ticket alone for 57.5K?
Dec 5, 2018, 7:02 pm
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I'm looking to book an award ticket in business class from MIA to MAD sometime in the summer (date is flexible). If I search for that exact itinerary, I find availability on Tuesday July 16 on AA68 for 110K miles. But, if I search from LGA to MAD, I get an itinerary from LGA-MIA-MAD, with the exact same AA68 flight from MIA to MAD, for 57.5K miles. Is there a way to get the business class MIA-MAD ticket alone for 57.5K?
You might try looking at other, non-hub airports you can reposition to more easily, or try dropping the first segment later if it conforms to the following, from https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/amer...ancel-etc.html.
Segments can be dropped as long as doing so does not change the destination zone (or sub-zone, in the case of intra-North America awards). If you are refused, refer agents to the in-house memo/advisory dated 02/03/11 entitled "Dropping OWFA segments." (guv1976)
Dec 6, 2018, 4:44 am
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To answer the first question, this is married segment availability and has become very common on AA over the past year.
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/amer...-segments.html
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/amer...-segments.html
Dec 6, 2018, 12:09 pm
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Dec 6, 2018, 7:58 pm
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Dec 6, 2018, 8:14 pm
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Did you have this experience? Are they really going to check if there was only married segment availability on the date you booked the flight, even if it was months before?
Last edited by mvoight; Dec 6, 2018 at 8:59 pm
Dec 7, 2018, 10:41 am
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I have not had to drop a segment on an award in a few years, but I believe I have seen one or two other posts here on FT from members who had trouble doing so after award ticketing due to married-segment issues. YMMV.
Dec 7, 2018, 12:30 pm
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It's such a thoughtful name for a relatively anti-consumer practice. "Married segments" sounds pleasant until you know what it's all about versus "in-law segments" which already leaves you with a sinking feeling just hearing its name.
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