(Business) AA: LAX-MIA-PTY (Panama City) $723 RT
Sep 13, 2015, 7:50 pm
#181
Join Date: Aug 2015
Posts: 39
You should be able to include JFK by using the Multi-city planner on the AA website when you search for the itin. You'll have to specifically include LAX-JFK and JFK-PTY as segments. As long as you follow the stopover rules and there is availability, you should see this fare.
Sep 14, 2015, 1:32 am
#182
Join Date: Jul 2009
Programs: BAEC Silver, IHG Diamond
Posts: 7,773
Is there an easy way of getting the cheap prices?
I search by price/schedule and get fares around £770 / $1050.
By playing around with routings, and using 40 schedule results, I found one flight with 3 parts i.e. CLT-MCO, MCO-MIA, MIA-PTY rather than CLT-PTY or CLT-MCO-PTY and this gave me £561 / $800. Others vary from £770 up to £2000.
Seems very convoluted trying every single option to find a sweet spot.
I search by price/schedule and get fares around £770 / $1050.
By playing around with routings, and using 40 schedule results, I found one flight with 3 parts i.e. CLT-MCO, MCO-MIA, MIA-PTY rather than CLT-PTY or CLT-MCO-PTY and this gave me £561 / $800. Others vary from £770 up to £2000.
Seems very convoluted trying every single option to find a sweet spot.
Sep 14, 2015, 11:00 am
#183
Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: IAH
Programs: UA 1K, AA EXP, SPG Plat100, Hyatt Diamond, Avis PC, Hertz PC
Posts: 129
Sep 15, 2015, 7:21 pm
#184
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: NYC
Posts: 186
Had to cancel my last itinerary due to a work conflict. Having trouble finding this again? Anyone have any luck recently? When I use google flights it finds the low fare but AA says it doesn't exist. Odd.
Sep 16, 2015, 12:55 pm
#185
Join Date: Nov 2009
Posts: 4
Ugh....
Just flew the LAX-MIA-PTY run on 9/12-9/13. Unfortunately, it turned out to be 9/12-9/14 with a 7 hour over night layover in Miami.
The flight back from PTY to MIA was delayed THREE times for some unknown reason causing me to entirely miss the connection to LAX Sunday night. AA rebooked me onto the 6:59am flight Monday morning. One plus was that this flight was a 3 cabin 777, so I was able to talk the agent until putting me in 1st since the original booking was in 1st on a 2 cabin.
The flight back from PTY to MIA was delayed THREE times for some unknown reason causing me to entirely miss the connection to LAX Sunday night. AA rebooked me onto the 6:59am flight Monday morning. One plus was that this flight was a 3 cabin 777, so I was able to talk the agent until putting me in 1st since the original booking was in 1st on a 2 cabin.
Sep 16, 2015, 1:57 pm
#187
Join Date: Sep 2015
Programs: Delta Diamond, Starwood Platinum
Posts: 22
Am I miscalculating
Im a long time Delta diamond and looking to try out AA EP this coming year with a 25k fast track challenge.
Thanks!
Sep 16, 2015, 2:22 pm
#188
Join Date: Aug 2007
Programs: SPG, Hyatt, Marriott, IHG, Hilton, AS, AA, JL, HA
Posts: 232
Sorry, newbie here. Just wondering how you came up with the EQP. I just routed LAX-JFK-MIA-PTY-MIA-JFK-LAS-LAX (A,I) and according to the AA agent will only bank about 14,500 EQP.
Im a long time Delta diamond and looking to try out AA EP this coming year with a 25k fast track challenge.
Thanks!
Im a long time Delta diamond and looking to try out AA EP this coming year with a 25k fast track challenge.
Thanks!
It seems the price is slowly creeping up, at least on dates around weekends. I did the trip along with my wife and a buddy a couple of weeks back; we spent a few days in PTY and had a great time. Really enjoyed the Hilton and their very nice lounge. We went to the Panama vs. Uruguay futebol match and ended up making friends with our taxi driver who took us all over Casco Viejo for a personal walking tour the next afternoon. Have a second trip booked with my buddy via JFK booked for December. Great stuff.
Sep 16, 2015, 2:29 pm
#189
Join Date: Sep 2015
Programs: Delta Diamond, Starwood Platinum
Posts: 22
If you are on a challenge you will only earn 1.5 EQP, thus the 14,500. Otherwise there is a special 2015 EQP promo for all others that nets 2 EQP for F/J thus the ~20,000.
It seems the price is slowly creeping up, at least on dates around weekends. I did the trip along with my wife and a buddy a couple of weeks back; we spent a few days in PTY and had a great time. Really enjoyed the Hilton and their very nice lounge. We went to the Panama vs. Uruguay futebol match and ended up making friends with our taxi driver who took us all over Casco Viejo for a personal walking tour the next afternoon. Have a second trip booked with my buddy via JFK booked for December. Great stuff.
It seems the price is slowly creeping up, at least on dates around weekends. I did the trip along with my wife and a buddy a couple of weeks back; we spent a few days in PTY and had a great time. Really enjoyed the Hilton and their very nice lounge. We went to the Panama vs. Uruguay futebol match and ended up making friends with our taxi driver who took us all over Casco Viejo for a personal walking tour the next afternoon. Have a second trip booked with my buddy via JFK booked for December. Great stuff.
Sep 16, 2015, 6:02 pm
#191
Join Date: Jun 2015
Posts: 3
On which routes are people finding lie flat transcon airplanes? I am only seeing the recline seats on all routes I search LAX-MIA-PTY and reverse.
Sep 16, 2015, 8:09 pm
#193
Join Date: Nov 2014
Location: LHR, DFW, J Cabins WorldWide
Programs: AA EXP, UA GS, FB Gold, AS MVPG, MR Titanium, VS Gold
Posts: 954
Sep 18, 2015, 2:15 pm
#194
Join Date: Nov 2013
Posts: 84
Just put LAS-JFK-MIA-PTY-MIA-JFK-CLT-LAS on hold for $804. Would have loved to do the JFK-LAX transcon in J (I have flown it in F), but it doesn't make sense for me to pay about $100 more and to transit to LAX.
The whole thing comes to 9,187 flown miles or 13,781 EQPs. Don't think I am going to do better than that for the price. I have about 5,000 EQPs coming for already booked travel. Just need to find about 6,000 more to hit the 25K on elite fast track.
Thanks everyone for the info in this thread!
The whole thing comes to 9,187 flown miles or 13,781 EQPs. Don't think I am going to do better than that for the price. I have about 5,000 EQPs coming for already booked travel. Just need to find about 6,000 more to hit the 25K on elite fast track.
Thanks everyone for the info in this thread!
Sep 21, 2015, 12:15 pm
#195
Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: NY
Programs: Hilton Diamond, Hyatt Diamond, CC Gold, SPG Gold, AA Exec Platinum
Posts: 99
Holding a Las-jfk-mia-pty-mia-jfk-phx-las for Nov. Booking it tonight, ~9k EQP was exactly what I needed to push me over to EP by 200 eqps. I got the confirmed status challenge email so lets hope I get it.
Thanks all!
Thanks all!