LHSEN

I booked an transatlantic on IB with a connection in MAD in U class .... now on hold ... so working for me.

jabbathehutt

Following up on this thread. Newbie here and I'm having trouble finding award availability (business class) on Iberia through aa.com.

Looking at 2 RT award tickets in J from PHX-MAD (through LAX, or MIA, etc.) in Sep or Oct 2017, 7-9days. We are very flexible but not finding much luck.

Lots of Business MileSAAver availability (57.5K miles) but the Iberia leg almost always shows as economy class. Is biz class really not available?

millionmiler

No, its really not available.

enviroian

Lol

lobo411

Hello folks,
For the last few days, I've been trying to book a milesAAver business TATL award on Iberia for end of schedule 2018 (one seat). Availability would show on aa.com and on Expert Flyer, but when I tried to book it would always say "No longer available." Then it would disappear from the list of available flights, only to reappear the next time I searched.

I tried calling in and AAgents could see the seat too, but the same thing happened to them. I tried searching for milesAAver economy TATL awards on Iberia. The same thing happened. It even happened with some BA (but not all, and not necessarily the ones that were IB operated/BA marketed) TATL flights on other routes, both in economy and business.

On several of my calls to AA to try to book seats, I was told "there's a bug" with this. Another time I was told "just keep trying." Last night, the AAgent said "Let's see...I just got a memo about this..." She recommended waiting a week and trying again (!).

This morning I tried again. Didn't work. No longer available. No longer available. No longer available.

Then suddenly, for absolutely no reason at all, the 5th time I repeated the same exact search in 2.5 mins and clicked on the same "no longer available" flight, it worked and I was able to hold it.

I dunno if there's really a bug with BA/IB awards or if I was just lucky/unlucky, but there it is.

upsidedown

Traveling BOS - VIE next April. Found flights on IB with the fees shown below. Except for the Carrier Imposed fees, are the rest all governmental fees that I would not be able to avoid? There seem to be some pretty hefty fees in Austria, but even if I traveled a different airline are they avoidable?

Thanks

Adult base fare (per passenger)
$0.00 USD
CARRIER-IMPOSED FEES
$106.00 USD
PASSENGER FACILITY CHARGE (UNITED STATES)
$4.50 USD
TRANSPORTATION TAX (UNITED STATES)
$36.00 USD
US APHIS USER FEE (UNITED STATES)
$3.96 USD
US CUSTOMS USER FEE (UNITED STATES)
$5.50 USD
US FEDERAL INSPECTION FEE (UNITED STATES)
$7.00 USD
US SECURITY FEE (UNITED STATES)
$5.60 USD
AIR TRANSPORT LEVY (AUSTRIA)
$20.60 USD
AIRPORT SERVICE CHARGE (AUSTRIA)
$49.00 USD
PASSENGER SECURITY CHARGE (AUSTRIA)
$9.90 USD
AVIATION SAFETY AND SECURITY FEE (SPAIN)
$1.40 USD
SECURITY TAX (SPAIN)
$5.20 USD
Total
$254.66 USD

Dave Noble

If you travel on IB, there will be a carrier surcharge and so all the other taxes and fees listed will apply

If you travel on an airline where there are no carrier surcharges, most of the US taxes will not apply

rove312

I've searched alternatives, and find AA to NYC, then AB via Germany (didn't find availability on AB out of BOS for the dates I searched), then return all on AB, shows fees of $112.26 on the round trip. If you find it all on AB, you may do better. What I found also would have an LGA-JFK connection to make, so add cost and hassle there.

upsidedown

What you specced out is my alternative. For some reason there are no AB flights out of BOS in April 2018.

JDiver

Whilst IB Carrier Imposed Fees are generally lower than BA, they do trigger a number of taxes, government and airport fees.

Help avoid YQ Surcharge: AA award on BA / British & IB / Iberia (consolidated)

Dsm2m2

Just following up to see if anyone has found a solution to IB space not showing up on AA?

Iberia showing loads of business availability ORD-MAD and MAD-ORD over dates that I need but neither expert flyer or AA is seeing this availability.

Super frustrating as I have enough Avios to book one leg but want to use AA miles for the other.

linglingfool

IB releases more space to their own program members than to partners.

cjhorh

I am trying to book AAnytime award travel in May 2018 BOS-MAD-TLV in Iberia business class (to avoid the BA surcharge). Called AA award travel desk, and they could find no availability at all. They could not me tell if the seats hadn't been released yet, or if IB simply doesn't make these seats available.

Has anyone been able to successfully book this route/class/airline as award travel?

Thanks.

guv1976

You will never find AAnytime award space on IB -- or on any other AAdvantage partner. AAnytime awards are only offered on an all-AA-metal itinerary.

cjhorh

Ok, in that case, same question but for MilesAAver.