Award booking: hand-baggage only fare
Aug 11, 2021, 10:22 pm
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Award booking: hand-baggage only fare
This question may belong on the BA forum or here - not sure. When trying to make an award booking on a regional route (ORD-MSN), if I use Avios (BA), I get a "hand baggage only fare - no checked baggage allowance" note on the screen. If I go to AA and try using their miles for the same flight, I see no such note and indeed nothing other than the link to the usual table of all allowed checked baggage vs. routes.
What does this mean? Does this route (ERJ-145, Piedmont Airlines/American Eagle) allow the usual domestic checked bag(s) or not? Is there a difference between the BA booking & the AA booking in this respect? I am not concerned about the checked bag costs, but do need to make sure that they are allowed. Any clarity is appreciated.
What does this mean? Does this route (ERJ-145, Piedmont Airlines/American Eagle) allow the usual domestic checked bag(s) or not? Is there a difference between the BA booking & the AA booking in this respect? I am not concerned about the checked bag costs, but do need to make sure that they are allowed. Any clarity is appreciated.
Aug 12, 2021, 5:03 am
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This question may belong on the BA forum or here - not sure. When trying to make an award booking on a regional route (ORD-MSN), if I use Avios (BA), I get a "hand baggage only fare - no checked baggage allowance" note on the screen. If I go to AA and try using their miles for the same flight, I see no such note and indeed nothing other than the link to the usual table of all allowed checked baggage vs. routes.
What does this mean? Does this route (ERJ-145, Piedmont Airlines/American Eagle) allow the usual domestic checked bag(s) or not? Is there a difference between the BA booking & the AA booking in this respect? I am not concerned about the checked bag costs, but do need to make sure that they are allowed. Any clarity is appreciated.
What does this mean? Does this route (ERJ-145, Piedmont Airlines/American Eagle) allow the usual domestic checked bag(s) or not? Is there a difference between the BA booking & the AA booking in this respect? I am not concerned about the checked bag costs, but do need to make sure that they are allowed. Any clarity is appreciated.
Unless I'm missing something, you would need to pay the $30 for first checked bag (and so on) regardless of whether you book with BA avios or AA miles.
Aug 12, 2021, 7:47 am
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Aug 12, 2021, 11:12 pm
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Maybe OP can't drive, or doesn't even have a car available (i.e. flying to ORD on another airline/ticket and doesn't want to pay a one-way car rental fee). Or maybe just doesn't want to. This is FlyerTalk, after all, where people fly 12,000 miles in a weekend for no other reason than to earn some points, so I'm somewhat amused that a micro hop raises an eyebrow. 