Award pricing Air France
Dec 16, 2021, 10:38 am
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Award pricing Air France
I'm currently looking at a trip CPH-MRU which is routed CPH-CDG-MRU with AF. It prices out at 75K miles per person in business on Delta.com. However, on the day I want to travel, the full itinerary, i.e. CPH-CDG-MRU does not show up, but Expertflyer shows O class availability on both flights (and searching leg-by-leg on Delta.com). If I call Delta, will an agent be able to put CPH-CDG separately and then CDG-MRU separately and ticket it? And If yes, will I pay the 75K miles per person or would some other rate apply?
Last edited by brokenwindow; Dec 16, 2021 at 11:28 am
Dec 16, 2021, 2:37 pm
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Answering my own question. Despite the most competent agent helping, it did not work and was priced out as two awards. Forced to take it as I needed to fly that specific day..
Dec 16, 2021, 2:51 pm
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Interesting. Do you know if AF will allow only one part of an itin to be available? Or put another way, in the OP’s example, if the OP didn’t care about upgrading CPH to CDG, but just CDG to MRU, would they do that or would they still apply married segment logic?
Dec 16, 2021, 3:01 pm
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Otherwise missing CPH/CDG will result in CDG-MRU being canceled.
I ran into this last week just within Europe. Needed award from ARN-AMS. No awards available. If search ARN-MUC awards via AMS available. As was long connection at AMS short checking bags was no issue. Simply skipped AMS-MUC flight. However was no issue as was flying 1st flight. For OP skipping 1st flight means cancelation and rebooking, unless AF allows out if sequence use.
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Dec 16, 2021, 4:09 pm
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AF allows tickets to be used out of sequence in some cases. However for a J cabin ticket there's a 1500€ fee to do so. I'm not sure if that would even work as ticket would be issued by DL.
Otherwise missing CPH/CDG will result in CDG-MRU being canceled.
I ran into this last week just within Europe. Needed award from ARN-AMS. No awards available. If search ARN-MUC awards via AMS available. As was long connection at AMS short checking bags was no issue. Simply skipped AMS-MUC flight. However was no issue as was flying 1st flight. For OP skipping 1st flight means cancelation and rebooking, unless AF allows out if sequence use.
Otherwise missing CPH/CDG will result in CDG-MRU being canceled.
I ran into this last week just within Europe. Needed award from ARN-AMS. No awards available. If search ARN-MUC awards via AMS available. As was long connection at AMS short checking bags was no issue. Simply skipped AMS-MUC flight. However was no issue as was flying 1st flight. For OP skipping 1st flight means cancelation and rebooking, unless AF allows out if sequence use.
Dec 16, 2021, 4:57 pm
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Does AF have mixed awards? An example would be that, flying LAX-CDG-ARN, if I only care about J on the TATL, and am fine with Y (if J is not available), will that be one award, or two, or will they still insist on both segments being available? I haven’t used an award ticket on AF in many years