vickh

prorated annual fee refund??

moondog

As soon as you take your first JL flight in J, you'll forget about the $75. (This deal is quite good.)

olafman

I just got my card too after applying about a month ago.

Yeah! I love Flyertalk!

"I'll meet you in the Club Class lounge, sweetie" - Patsy from AbFab

cruise603

We'll go to Kawaii this coming June using 210K Ba miles for 6 tickets Lax-lih on
AA. Only paid $75 x 2 (annual fees) + $5 x 6 (taxes), totl $180, could easily cost us over $700x 6 = $4200.
Thank you FTs, you guys are great.

Muaroak

Here is the thing. Redeeming the award on BAEC's website, flying AA from mainland to Hawaii works out to be 35000 miles round trip per person. This is not the 25000 miles that I thought it would take for a round trip in the USA. Has anyone been able to book RT to Hawaii at 25K miles?

troyb

Hawaii's in a different zone, not sure why you expected to be able to book it for 25K. It's a higher level on basically every program out there.

alexyoung59

I had been tossing around the idea of flying to Hawaii with my BA miles, but was not sure if there is a route eligible for Miles from my area. I am about 1.5 hours from Atlanta, GA and 3.5 from Jacksonville, FL and probably 2 to 3 hours from Birmingham, AL. I live just south of Macon, GA. I did some quick searches after logging into the Executive Club website and could find nothing for Atlanta to Honolulu. Does anyone know if it is possible to get out there from my area short of paying for my own tickets to somewhere like Dallas or Los Angeles and then flying? I probably won't fly out there until next winter, but I am just trying to figure out my options with these miles as Europe is one, but don't care to pay the massive fees when I could fly to Hawaii for next to nothing...

troyb

Assuming AA flies from Atlanta, Jacksonville, or Birmingham, there is no reason why you cannot use your BA miles to get to Hawaii. The only limiting factor will be availability, which there seems to be none of. Try searching on AA.com and call BA to book if necessary.

Happy

Hawaii is NEVER in the North America zone for every program, including AA, CO, UA, US and whoever you can name. North America zone means US lower 48, Canada, and Alaska.

Happy

You need to search AA website to find the availability first. Then call BA to give the exact flights for the agent to check. They usually match. Unless AA does not fly from any of your possible origin city, you should be able to go to Hawaii on AA metal.

You would have to connect at ORD or DFW just off the top of my head. BA is not able to show routes that require multiple connections.

Steve in Olympia

You can fly round-trip to Geneva in Business Class for $289 per person, or Paris for a few dollars more. Add a few more dollars, and you can spend a week in London on your way to Geneva (or Paris). Just in case your Hawaii trip doesn't work out...

sbc94523

You can now book your AA award flights on BA.COM.

I check and found seats for ATL-DWF-HNL for the May time frame.

10:00 3 May
11:35 3 May
Atlanta
Dallas Fort Worth (Dallas)
AA0668
American Airlines
Economy

Only 7 reward flight seat(s) left in this class

13:25 3 May
16:45 3 May
Dallas Fort Worth (Dallas)
Honolulu
AA0005
American Airlines
Economy

Only 7 reward flight seat(s) left in this class

1 flight connection, total journey time: 12 hours 45 minutes

17:15 10 May
05:35 11 May
Honolulu
Dallas Fort Worth (Dallas)
AA0008
American Airlines
Economy

Only 7 reward flight seat(s) left in this class

07:40 11 May
10:50 11 May
Dallas Fort Worth (Dallas)
Atlanta
AA1250
American Airlines
Economy

Only 7 reward flight seat(s) left in this class

1 flight connection, total journey time: 11 hours 35 minutes.

sydneysandiego

Checked yesterday and the 100K award miles were posted in my account from the BA VISA promo.
Yippee!
How is everyone using those 100K to their most efficient use?

Splitting them up for UGs?

Redeeming the whole chunk for a RT award (eg N. America to SYD or N. America to CPE)?

Oh the possibilities!

sam-i-am

Slightly OT, but I have found that availability on AA is much better with AA miles than with BA miles.
It would have been great if they were the same, because it would have eliminated the close-in fees that AA charges.

Enjoralas

General consensus seems to be that the BA engine does not show all of the availability, but if one calls w/ specific flight numbers you can get the availability that shows on aa.com.