AA award stopover rule?
Would the following all-AA itin be valid for 25K coach award or 50K business class award?
PHL-ORD/DFW-IAH (stop-over), IAH-ORD/DFW-NRT Thanks. |
No....it has to be by the most direct routing and you are backtracking big time by going through the same airport twice.
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Originally Posted by HIDDY
(Post 14079144)
No....it has to be by the most direct routing and you are backtracking big time by going through the same airport twice.
Can I then make a routing, PHL-DFW(stop-over)-NRT? |
Originally Posted by nydad
(Post 14079879)
Thank you for your kind response.
Can I then make a routing, PHL-DFW(stop-over)-NRT? |
I will be using BA miles, not AA miles, and want to do the following routing, I think it should work, but before calling BA, wanted to get thoughts here first.
All in J/F for 50k EZE-MIA (STOP) MIA-JFK (STOP) JFK-LAS (STOP) LAS-LAX |
Originally Posted by NYCbustravelguy
(Post 14081577)
I will be using BA miles, not AA miles, and want to do the following routing, I think it should work, but before calling BA, wanted to get thoughts here first.
All in J/F for 50k EZE-MIA (STOP) MIA-JFK (STOP) JFK-LAS (STOP) LAS-LAX I think it might not going by the rules....this routing can be done with only one stop in MIA without doing a grand tour of the USA. |
Originally Posted by NYCbustravelguy
(Post 14081577)
I will be using BA miles, not AA miles, and want to do the following routing, I think it should work, but before calling BA, wanted to get thoughts here first.
All in J/F for 50k EZE-MIA (STOP) MIA-JFK (STOP) JFK-LAS (STOP) LAS-LAX Please report back ! |
Originally Posted by Tumbleweed666
(Post 14083476)
As per above poster, seems unlikely to me because while the BA rules may be different and may overrule the AA ones, I can't believe they will let you take a tour of the USA when you could just go EZE-somewhere-LAX without visiting a whole bunch of other places in between with multiple stopovers.
Please report back ! Next agent, made it work after I feed her the cities and flights, EZE-MIA (stop), MIA-JFK (my home, stop), JFK-LAS (stop), LAS-LAX (stop and then I added at the last minute LAX-SFO (final), all for 40k BA and $2.50 tax (I think she got the tax wrong). For wahat it is worth the second agent told me she has seen JFK-Vancover (stop), Vancover-HKHG (stop) HKG-BKK (stop), BKK-SIN (stop). This is a very good use of miles to me, and it would never be allowed on AA. Plus AA would charge 50k for J and would only allow EZE-MIA (stop) MIA-JFK (or MIA-SFO, LAX or other city). They do not allow a tour of the US. |
Originally Posted by NYCbustravelguy
(Post 14084395)
It worked. First agent said I could only do EZE-MIA-DFW-LAX (stopover she said could be as many as I wanted in one direction, but only in hub cities for AA).
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Agreed, spectacular value.
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Yes well done.
I suspect naive agents not knowing the rules got you this. Now I know what to do with my remaining BA miles....a tour of the USA is on the cards. The $2.50 tax/charges is definitely wrong. Tickets starting in EZE include the $29 departure tax in the taxes/charges which this obviously doesn't so you will have to pay that at EZE. |
Originally Posted by NYCbustravelguy
(Post 14084395)
It worked. First agent said I could only do EZE-MIA-DFW-LAX (stopover she said could be as many as I wanted in one direction, but only in hub cities for AA).
Next agent, made it work after I feed her the cities and flights, EZE-MIA (stop), MIA-JFK (my home, stop), JFK-LAS (stop), LAS-LAX (stop and then I added at the last minute LAX-SFO (final), all for 40k BA and $2.50 tax (I think she got the tax wrong). For wahat it is worth the second agent told me she has seen JFK-Vancover (stop), Vancover-HKHG (stop) HKG-BKK (stop), BKK-SIN (stop). |
Originally Posted by fallinasleep
(Post 14085693)
No fuel surcharges on AA flights?
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Originally Posted by gleff
(Post 14087309)
Nope.
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Originally Posted by HIDDY
(Post 14088257)
Indeed although NYCbustravelguy should be paying a hell of a lot more than $2.50....the EZE-MIA leg taxes/charges come to £40.80 alone so he should be getting a call from the BAEC to pay what's owed or he may be in for a shock when he gets to the airport.
She then asked me if I held elite status with AA and I said yes, Emerald/EXP. She told me it would be better for lounges if she took out the basic BA acct # and put my EXP # in the record. I 'm not worried now, although I will be prepared to pony up the extra taxes. The cost savings on this "tour of the US" are outstanding. Thanks all for alerting me to the possible airpoort issues. |
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