I meant the flight qualification for the bonus points.

Yeah that doesn't surprise me though.

I bought a non-refundable J ticket, then upgraded J->F using a BXP certificate immediately after booking. A few months later, I was involuntarily downgraded back to J due to an equipment swap (over a month before the flight). There are no other options available that week to fly in F.

Would I be entitled to a refund of the ticket, or just the BXP? The schedule change / refunds policy doesn't specify, leading me to believe it encompasses BXP and SWU confirmed upgrades: https://saleslink.aa.com/en-US/docum...40_Refunds.pdf

I would not have booked with AA in the first place if three-cabin F wasn't offered on the route.

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...23916c368b.png

I think the equipment swap should be enough for a refund.

If intertantional, then yes. Spelled out somewhere in the rules, and posted somewhere in a Flyertalk thread.

If not international, I've still been sucessful in the past when 77W went to 757 (Nice P/E Y to crap Y)

Unfortunately this isn't international. It's transcontinental 3-cabin F (32B) to 2-cabin J (772).

Did you just file for your refund on prefunds.aa.com, or did you have to escalate? I was already turned down after submitting a request online.

I would have just called prior to canceling the ticket. International or not, AA phone reps *tend* to be pretty good, even these days, about refunds when involuntary changes occur that are not satisfactory to the passenger. YMMV.

Has AA done anything about extending expiration on Business Extra flight awards? Or is there a clever way to bump out the expiration date? I have a flight award that's scheduled to expire in a couple of months, and no plans to fly anytime soon, so I'd love to have that expiration date extended. If I can't get it extended, then I suppose I could book a flight way out into the future and then change that flight later. Any other suggestions?

I'd just cancel it and get a new one when you are ready. They already extended the expiration dates of points, and I don't think they stopped allowing free redeposits of awards yet.

<This works. You can also book other online awards and cancel much sooner as in 24hrs.

I hadn't seen that they were allowing free redeposits of awards. That'd be a perfect solution for my problem. Thanks for suggesting it.

Edit to add: Just called, and they redeposited the points without any fee and with zero hassle. Thanks again for the suggestion.

I received an email from AA last night they are extending expiration of Business Extra points by one year.

A few weeks ago, AA announced that points set to expire on 12.31.20 will now expire on 12.31.21.

Also, if you log into your business extra account, this will be reflected directly under the word "Messages" on your Account Activity screen.

Glad you got your notice....they started notifying many of us in September....post 1194 has first mention of it. Good move by AA.

Is it possible to use Business Extra points to u/g from W (paid premium economy) to C?

BXP2 using 1200 points?

Routing is SFO-DFW-PVG

Thanks

W is considered full-fare premium economy, though the T&C on AA's website say "The International One-Way Upgrade on a full fare is valid on Y and J inventory bookings only and must be confirmed after the ticket is issued." It can't hurt to call and ask though.

If you have normal AA miles, it's 15,000 RDMs to upgrade from full fare economy or premium economy to business, and that explicitly calls out Y and W fares.