Booking AA Reward Flights
Sep 6, 2022, 5:17 am
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Booking AA Reward Flights
I cant get BA to show any AA reward flights for travel ORD-YYZ. I can see miles saver flights are available on multiple dates so am wondering if this is an IT glitch. Can anyone please advise?
Sep 6, 2022, 6:42 am
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Sep 6, 2022, 10:03 am
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Sep 6, 2022, 10:14 am
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Specific dates would help any effort to troubleshoot this issue.
Sep 6, 2022, 3:55 pm
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interesting, although I only did a one way search from YYZ to ORD. Ill take another look but find it strange that all availability is disappearing he day that it is released so not convinced it isnt a glitch
Sep 6, 2022, 4:10 pm
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I just checked a random day YYZ-ORD 19OCT22 and Ba.com returned availability for one flight on AA.
Sep 6, 2022, 4:21 pm
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Note that because YYZ-ORD is under 500 flown miles, the MileSAAver redemption rate for the nonstops on this route in Economy is 7,500 AAdvantage miles; for the connections, it would still be 12,500.
If you are seeing nonstops offered for any amount of miles other than 7,500 (higher or lower), it is a Web Special award, not a MileSAAver.
Sep 6, 2022, 9:16 pm
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I'm not seeing any MileSAAver award seats from YYC to PVR on February 18, so it's no surprise that nothing is coming up on ba.com.
Sep 6, 2022, 9:29 pm
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Yes. AA only makes available milesaaver award flights to other airlines. AA provides greater availability to their own members (using AA miles in greater amounts) as do most oneworld member airlines.
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Sep 6, 2022, 9:51 pm
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Sep 7, 2022, 2:25 am
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Miles sAAver Fares
Are you certain that you were seeing MileSAAver availability on the YYZ-ORD nonstops, as opposed to connections?
Note that because YYZ-ORD is under 500 flown miles, the MileSAAver redemption rate for the nonstops on this route in Economy is 7,500 AAdvantage miles; for the connections, it would still be 12,500.
If you are seeing nonstops offered for any amount of miles other than 7,500 (higher or lower), it is a Web Special award, not a MileSAAver.
Note that because YYZ-ORD is under 500 flown miles, the MileSAAver redemption rate for the nonstops on this route in Economy is 7,500 AAdvantage miles; for the connections, it would still be 12,500.
If you are seeing nonstops offered for any amount of miles other than 7,500 (higher or lower), it is a Web Special award, not a MileSAAver.