Need help figuring out AA segment run
Dec 2, 2015, 11:34 am
#1
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Location: Columbia, SC
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Need help figuring out AA segment run
I just realized at the end of the year I'm going to be one flight segment short for platinum on AA (I'm gold now). I'll have 59 segments, one short of the 60 for platinum.
My home airport is Columbia, SC - CAE. What is the best way to investigate a segment run at a good price, other than just typing in various destination airports in the AA site over and over in the flight finder field? Any advice for a segment run newbie?
My home airport is Columbia, SC - CAE. What is the best way to investigate a segment run at a good price, other than just typing in various destination airports in the AA site over and over in the flight finder field? Any advice for a segment run newbie?
Dec 2, 2015, 1:27 pm
#2
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I just realized at the end of the year I'm going to be one flight segment short for platinum on AA (I'm gold now). I'll have 59 segments, one short of the 60 for platinum.
My home airport is Columbia, SC - CAE. What is the best way to investigate a segment run at a good price, other than just typing in various destination airports in the AA site over and over in the flight finder field? Any advice for a segment run newbie?
My home airport is Columbia, SC - CAE. What is the best way to investigate a segment run at a good price, other than just typing in various destination airports in the AA site over and over in the flight finder field? Any advice for a segment run newbie?
Plug in CAE. Pick a date that works for you, filter to oneworld, and look for the cheapest roundtrip price. I see r/t to CLT at $147/152 on many dates, as well as PHL/LGA and DFW. For some reason the northeastern ports want to connect in CRW and PHL. With some good searching you can hopefully find ~100 r/t.
Last edited by BThumme; Dec 2, 2015 at 1:33 pm
Dec 2, 2015, 1:37 pm
#3
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I just realized at the end of the year I'm going to be one flight segment short for platinum on AA (I'm gold now). I'll have 59 segments, one short of the 60 for platinum.
My home airport is Columbia, SC - CAE. What is the best way to investigate a segment run at a good price, other than just typing in various destination airports in the AA site over and over in the flight finder field? Any advice for a segment run newbie?
My home airport is Columbia, SC - CAE. What is the best way to investigate a segment run at a good price, other than just typing in various destination airports in the AA site over and over in the flight finder field? Any advice for a segment run newbie?
Dec 2, 2015, 3:07 pm
#6
Join Date: Aug 2015
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Depending on what flights and routing you have left, you can try to standby or same-day confirmed flight change to add an additional segment. I've done this before midway into a journey via an Admiral's Club, and I think SDFC now allows change in segments.
Dec 3, 2015, 12:57 am
#7
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Standby may allow it as long as the desired routing is permitted by the fare rules, but at the risk of not clearing on one or more of the connections.
Dec 3, 2015, 2:37 am
#8
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Since what you're looking to do is buy some cheap segments, I'll go ahead and shift this discussion over to the Mileage Run Discussion forum. There are some nifty tools out there to help find these, and the denizens of this forum are also a great resource. Good luck!
~Microwave
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Dec 3, 2015, 2:11 pm
#9
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And it looks, based on the T&C's of standby, that the number of connections aren't allowed to be changed there, either. I suppose YMMV depending on availability on the flights and the agent you talk to. But be very respectful and know that you're asking for an exception when asking - don't demand it.
I can confirm that I was able to do this via the standby method in an AC in November. But I was denied it at a different AC (pre-merger US club) on the same trip.
Dec 31, 2015, 1:55 pm
#10
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Thanks
Thanks for the help, everyone. I'm happy to report I got my Platinum status for the first time. It's funny -- I thought I would get a special email or something fun for hitting the magic 60 segment mark. Instead, I found out by checking my status progress on my app. No "congrats" messages or anything special -- just saw my changed status to "platinum." All that build up and yet no fanfares and fireworks! But I'm hoping I'll actually get upgraded every so often. I wasn't having much luck with my gold status.
Happy New Year to all on the board!
Happy New Year to all on the board!
Jan 1, 2016, 7:55 pm
#11
Join Date: Dec 2015
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You'll get one. May take a day or so. Think my email came a couple days later and the new card came in the mail 3 weeks later.
I fly almost all regional flights so going from Gold to Plat has been a huge jump. Think I went 23/24 clearing upgrades since getting platinum.
I fly almost all regional flights so going from Gold to Plat has been a huge jump. Think I went 23/24 clearing upgrades since getting platinum.