BA-EC award booking on AA YYZ-PVG
Mar 24, 2006 | 10:40 am
#1
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Join Date: Mar 2006
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BA-EC award booking on AA YYZ-PVG
Greetings,
I am new to this forum, and new to awards booking. So if the answer to my question is obvious, which I fear it may be, please excuse my newbie-ness.
I recently came into a significant amount of BA miles through a credit card points transfer. In February, I booked a flight from YYZ to PVG on AA for Wednesday May 10.
My employer is allowing me to take more time off which means I can now leave on Saturday May 6. So I called BA to make the change and they said there is no availability for awards customers. I called AA who in turn referred me back to BA.
In all your years of experience, is there anyway to "work the system" and get on that flight? Or am I flogging a dead horse?
I am new to this forum, and new to awards booking. So if the answer to my question is obvious, which I fear it may be, please excuse my newbie-ness.
I recently came into a significant amount of BA miles through a credit card points transfer. In February, I booked a flight from YYZ to PVG on AA for Wednesday May 10.
My employer is allowing me to take more time off which means I can now leave on Saturday May 6. So I called BA to make the change and they said there is no availability for awards customers. I called AA who in turn referred me back to BA.
In all your years of experience, is there anyway to "work the system" and get on that flight? Or am I flogging a dead horse?
Mar 24, 2006 | 10:49 am
#2
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: NYC
Programs: AA PLT
Posts: 1,122
Check for availability for the flight you want on AA.com (AAdvantage award) every day.
When you see it open, call BA to change.
If it doesn't open (and it could open the night before, or the same day even), no chance you'll get on.
When you see it open, call BA to change.
If it doesn't open (and it could open the night before, or the same day even), no chance you'll get on.
Mar 24, 2006 | 2:06 pm
#4
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Thanks for the quick replies...
I realize that flights fill up fast on weekends, but there are still dozens of seats left on this particular flight. I assume that BA has access to a limited number of seats available per AA flight. BA's quota must have been reached.
That flight will probably takeoff with empty seats, and I will miss 4 extra days in China due to a technicality. Is there anyway to prevent that from happening?
I realize that flights fill up fast on weekends, but there are still dozens of seats left on this particular flight. I assume that BA has access to a limited number of seats available per AA flight. BA's quota must have been reached.
That flight will probably takeoff with empty seats, and I will miss 4 extra days in China due to a technicality. Is there anyway to prevent that from happening?
Mar 24, 2006 | 2:22 pm
#5
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: NYC
Programs: AA PLT
Posts: 1,122
Originally Posted by Td0t
Thanks for the quick replies...
I realize that flights fill up fast on weekends, but there are still dozens of seats left on this particular flight. I assume that BA has access to a limited number of seats available per AA flight. BA's quota must have been reached.
That flight will probably takeoff with empty seats, and I will miss 4 extra days in China due to a technicality. Is there anyway to prevent that from happening?
I realize that flights fill up fast on weekends, but there are still dozens of seats left on this particular flight. I assume that BA has access to a limited number of seats available per AA flight. BA's quota must have been reached.
That flight will probably takeoff with empty seats, and I will miss 4 extra days in China due to a technicality. Is there anyway to prevent that from happening?
2. Just because you see empty seats on a flight, it doesn't mean they're not sold.
3. Why should an airline give out any empty seat for free? They are a business after all.
Please look around the forums and do some reading as these are questions that come up all the time.
Mar 24, 2006 | 2:39 pm
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Originally Posted by Td0t
...I realize that flights fill up fast on weekends, but there are still dozens of seats left on this particular flight. I assume that BA has access to a limited number of seats available per AA flight. BA's quota must have been reached. ...