Book one-way not round-trip with AA travel waiver
Mar 13, 2020, 12:21 am
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Book one-way not round-trip with AA travel waiver
I just wanted to send out a PSA to book one-way flights rather than roundtrip flights whenever possible if you are thinking to make use of AA travel waiver on return. There is one bullet point:
I hopped on the AA Hawaii deal and wanted to stay here longer however am unable to because of this fine print. I almost always book flights one-way for domestic but I was in a hurry so just made a roundtrip booking and this screwed me.
- Changes must be made prior to the departure of your original flight.
I hopped on the AA Hawaii deal and wanted to stay here longer however am unable to because of this fine print. I almost always book flights one-way for domestic but I was in a hurry so just made a roundtrip booking and this screwed me.
Mar 13, 2020, 12:42 am
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I just wanted to send out a PSA to book one-way flights rather than roundtrip flights whenever possible if you are thinking to make use of AA travel waiver on return. There is one bullet point:
I hopped on the AA Hawaii deal and wanted to stay here longer however am unable to because of this fine print. I almost always book flights one-way for domestic but I was in a hurry so just made a roundtrip booking and this screwed me.
- Changes must be made prior to the departure of your original flight.
I hopped on the AA Hawaii deal and wanted to stay here longer however am unable to because of this fine print. I almost always book flights one-way for domestic but I was in a hurry so just made a roundtrip booking and this screwed me.
Also, the goal of the waiver was to assist when you no longer wanted to take the trip, not because you might want to take a trip and change the return date
Mar 13, 2020, 12:52 am
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My point was that terms and conditions are not entirely clear and I wanted to share this with the community. If AA simply added the wording "original outbound flight" then this would be clear. Instead we are left with these vague terms and conditions.
Mar 13, 2020, 5:05 am
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I just wanted to send out a PSA to book one-way flights rather than roundtrip flights whenever possible if you are thinking to make use of AA travel waiver on return. There is one bullet point:
I hopped on the AA Hawaii deal and wanted to stay here longer however am unable to because of this fine print. I almost always book flights one-way for domestic but I was in a hurry so just made a roundtrip booking and this screwed me.
- Changes must be made prior to the departure of your original flight.
I hopped on the AA Hawaii deal and wanted to stay here longer however am unable to because of this fine print. I almost always book flights one-way for domestic but I was in a hurry so just made a roundtrip booking and this screwed me.
I don't see it as reading as you read it. Original flight doesn't mean originating flight of the itinerary, but that you cannot get the change applied after a no show
This is a wording i have seen on other airllines , not some new ambiguous term of AA
Mar 13, 2020, 9:09 am
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Not sure why they didn't allow you to change the return. As stated above, you should be able to change the return leg as long as it hasn't flown yet. Several coworkers just did this successfully (extended trip on RT ticket with no fees).
Mar 13, 2020, 10:08 am
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People may get sick on their trips or need to quarantine. So I think this is completely unreasonable that AA is not allowing changes to return flight.
Mar 13, 2020, 7:07 pm
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Perhaps I will try again and see if I have luck with different agent. The agent that I spoke to was very clear that once outbound flight is flown that you cannot change flight.
People may get sick on their trips or need to quarantine. So I think this is completely unreasonable that AA is not allowing changes to return flight.
People may get sick on their trips or need to quarantine. So I think this is completely unreasonable that AA is not allowing changes to return flight.