Aloha1

So when should we expect to see the October TATL routings?

taxare

We are scheduled to go on a Normandy trip in early October. Had two paid business seats on a nonstop between MIA-CDG, changed the outbound through DFW and return through JFK. This really stinks!!!!

golfergal

If JFK-FCO is operating daily until Sept 8 why would my 8/18 flight get changed to 8/16? Same flight # and basically the same schedule 4:45 to 4:59 departure.

freebeernwine

I asked in the Chase Rewards forum as well, but long story short- We had LHR—ORD cancel in August, they consolidated their inventory down to less flights. The new flight, departing two hours earlier, kept the same flight number but went from a 772 to a 789. At the same time, the return section of the trip also cancelled. I called AA directly and they took over the ticket and reissued them- both are still separate going and return and to further complicate we have BA connections both ways from LHR that have separate records for themselves even though, from February when we first booked this trip, it was one transaction (I guess that’s just part of their technology system given they codeshare so extensively)

Heres the thing: Chase Rewards keeps sending cancelation notifications of ORD-LHR- which is true, but not true because they recycled (or consolidated) the flight number in their schedule pull-down and then rebooked us on that new flight 86- which is operating and we have seats for.

Stressful!

saltytheseagull

I'm not sure where the best place to ask this question, so I'll start here. I had a web special change so that I have to change airports. Is it possible to use this to change dates?

seawolf

You can probably swing ±1 day unless no scheduled service/availability within that window. Definitely can ask and see what happens.

rove312

As I said above, we were changed from BOS-JFK-FCO to BOS-PHL-FCO a day later. I asked on a Twitter message about getting on BOS-DFW-FCO on the original date; they said no because of no SAAver availability. I hesitate to take such an odd itinerary, but do you think under the rules we should be able to make that change because of the change by a day? We were booked on PE at 40K; the DFW routing has it at 145K.

mvoight

I see my 789 went to a 788 for a FCO-DFW flight in Sept
Can anyone compare the what might change for me in PE?
The data I found mentions the width is 18 1/2 on 788 and 19 on 789
I found out about the change when I went to look at my trips. In addition to the schedule change, both flights had lower blocked times.
The 789 by a few minutes, and the 788 (FCO-DFW) was "faster" by 25 minutes, even though it still left at 10AM

seawolf

did you indicate your were schedule changed? They should have opened up award space.

rove312

My Twitter message started "Can we keep our departure date of [...] as originally booked"

For a few days there's been a message when I open the itinerary on a desktop browser of "Your flight changed; Check back soon to see what changed." I thought it might be bad programming and it was about the change already showing, but as if this morning it also says that on the app.

seawolf

Have you tried something along the lines of "AA made changes to our scheduled flight in PNR nnnnnn. The new dates and flights do not work for us. Please book BOS-DFW-FCO." Try calling if Twitter is not accommodating.

mvoight

I would call and discuss this with a live agent, and ask for a supervisor if needed. There doesn't have to be award availability when they cancel your flight.
I would not accept a one day delay on a trip to Europe unless there were ZERO seats available in a revenue class, and then I would expect the routing I wanted on a future or earlier day

saltytheseagull

I'd like to move it by a couple of months. I'm going to try and call, but I think I'll be told to pound sand.

Stickboy46

If you call, they can open up availability. I had ord-lhr-ath that was booked in J for 50k. They modified it by 8 hours so they moved me to a direct ord-ath flight that was showing 300k for business. I actually got money back because of the tax difference of not having to go through LHR.

xliioper

Because from the time I made my original post, AA further reduced the JFK-FCO schedule and it now goes from daily to 3x weekly starting on 8/17 instead of 9/8. At present, it's still daily from 7/1 through 8/16 (but with the international schedules, airlines have not been shy about making adjustments fairly close in).