aakash

Seems to be available Monday to Monday in April/May/June 2023. Possibly Tuesdays too, play around with dates.
Also seems to be available as a multi-city ie ARN-SEA-FCO, ATH-SEA-FCO etc
1 stop, stopover cities include LHR, ORD and others depending on dates, flights and routing.

Books in I class. Bookable on aa.com or ba.com

Example: https://kay.ac/97N8eO
Another example:

aakash

Also available for even lower ~$1500 MAD-SEA around the same time, so maybe not as special as I thought.

loganseatac

I priced out the same itinerary on AA and BA. Paying in Euros on BA would save about $200, but I couldn't tell if the change fees are the same. AA explicitly says "No change fees (difference in ticket price may apply)"
BA...I can't tell. Is AA anymore flexible with changes or should I save the $200 per person?

chejus

This is an amazing deal!

Cali Rob

This is perfect for me. I can’t thank the person who posted this enough.

cfischer

very nice fare

zebranz

TAP has biz at $1491 for same dates as example FCO-ORD-FCO 3-17 April (link on OP)

Many other similar to OP- $1593 MXP-DEN-MXP on BA/AA

Not sure if Italian fare or other origin- will start playing around! Thanks OP

nk15

I believe another difference is with BA you will lose all your money, truly nonrefundable, but AA you can refund as flight credit.

stephem

All the alliance carriers have these fares, there are actually one set that has a 180 day advanced purchase (fare basis INX1C1S4 for OneWorld) and then another set for 120 day advanced purchase (fare basis INX9C1S4) and then some variants of the above depending on which day of the week you travel. A bit of matrix of days/advanced booking restrictions that result in you only seeing certain fares available pretty far out. These were loaded in late March, but previous years we have seen quite similar fares from these EU markets to west coast US (AA at least had the identical fare structure in place). There were some interesting open jaws that could be created last year (to TLV in particular) that resulted from "reduced" YQ for certain markets, worth looking back at those threads and trying those again.

If you cannot get the lowest fare for the date you want, count days carefully ;-) Also, these fares are all MPM based, so there are TONS of combinations so it's advisable to read the rules and then crack ITA Matrix open to build a trip on the dates that work per the fare rules. Undoubtedly you can find some combinations of carriers and cities that will work, especially for the 6 months advanced purchase fares.

stephem

AA Fares are showing a EUR200 reissue fee, I think they are doing this ex-EU now despite no change fees ex-US. Same thing with the BA fares, so no difference there.

nk15

Yes, but I believe with AA you can also cancel for credit (minus maybe the re-issue fee?), but not with BA, which is a big difference.

loganseatac

That is an important distinction. I will definitely be booking with AA over BA. Thanks for the information, and thanks to OP for posting!

nk15

Actually I am not sure about it with the flight originating outside the US, this is the AA page....

Travel credit − Customer service − American Airlines (aa.com)

Travel updates − Travel information − American Airlines (aa.com)

AaronS123

Got my family from Milan to Austin for just shy of $1500 RT, thanks! I found that the similar price goes to basically any US airport from Italy so long as it isn’t East coast. Could be wrong but that’s what I found!

TalkingPoint

Booked to LAX for $1400RT and able to put it inside an ex-LAX booking that used up some expiring SWUs. Thank you for sharing