[FARE GONE] AA: JFK-DEN (via LAX) in Flagship F rt $483
Oct 16, 2015, 12:09 pm
#63
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Oct 17, 2015, 7:51 am
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I had one on hold, was a little worried after the fare was reported to be pulled upthread that it wouldn't ticket. I purchased late last night, and--phew!--the ticket was issued about 6 hours later. ^ nice little long weekend ski trip, and this way I can get close to a full day in before the evening DEN-LAX and then a redeye I can actually sleep on.
Oct 17, 2015, 1:33 pm
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Had one and hold and purchased at 11pm last night. Ticketed a few minutes later. Thank you VERY much to the OP for this, really an incredible deal I'd say. Esp given the ~25k miles I will earn as a lowly Gold.
Btw, it was talked about before in this thread, but perhaps never corrected... for non-elites and for flights after 5/15/15, AA adjusted the RDM bonus to be the same as for Gold/Plat. So you earn 6k on each of the long legs and 500 on the short ones.
Btw, it was talked about before in this thread, but perhaps never corrected... for non-elites and for flights after 5/15/15, AA adjusted the RDM bonus to be the same as for Gold/Plat. So you earn 6k on each of the long legs and 500 on the short ones.
Oct 17, 2015, 1:40 pm
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Oct 17, 2015, 6:05 pm
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EDIT: Confirmed, the fare rules are explicit you can use historical fares as long as first segment (or any stopovers/fare breaks) don't change, regardless of whether first leg is flown or not.
Of course if this was a mistake fare I suppose they could try to give you a hard time. No way to really know, but I think it would be difficult for AA to argue in front of the DOT that a $500 JFK-DEN first class fare is a "mistake."
Last edited by ijgordon; Oct 17, 2015 at 6:59 pm
Oct 17, 2015, 8:40 pm
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No, typically you don't have to fly the outbound first, but I don't have the fare rules handy.
EDIT: Confirmed, the fare rules are explicit you can use historical fares as long as first segment (or any stopovers/fare breaks) don't change, regardless of whether first leg is flown or not.
Of course if this was a mistake fare I suppose they could try to give you a hard time. No way to really know, but I think it would be difficult for AA to argue in front of the DOT that a $500 JFK-DEN first class fare is a "mistake."
EDIT: Confirmed, the fare rules are explicit you can use historical fares as long as first segment (or any stopovers/fare breaks) don't change, regardless of whether first leg is flown or not.
Of course if this was a mistake fare I suppose they could try to give you a hard time. No way to really know, but I think it would be difficult for AA to argue in front of the DOT that a $500 JFK-DEN first class fare is a "mistake."
Oct 17, 2015, 9:26 pm
#73
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Snagged a couple. Will just create a "work" trip to get to Denver for positioning. Kind of a hassle, but with the EXP bonus, and needing to be on the East Coast a couple times anyway, this works out great. Thanks OP.
Oct 17, 2015, 11:54 pm
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Feb Flying
I just locked in on my held flight for the first segment out of Denver turnaround for Feb 2016.. It's gonna be one heck of a pain in the butt to get from El Paso to Denver and back across a weekend (AA awards are going at no saver fares available, and Avios is only selling me 'first class' fares at the highly inflated first class fares since BA is a Business and First airline and ELP-DEN has no direct oneworld flights).
Hoping something good comes up on the award scene and hope to see some of y'all on board from LAX-JFK and/or JFK-LAX.
Hoping something good comes up on the award scene and hope to see some of y'all on board from LAX-JFK and/or JFK-LAX.