As a newbie, what can that potentially mean? What happens when flights are cancelled due to weather? If that throws off my MR schedule completely, what should I do? Should I change to route through DFW?

If you have lots of flights with tight schedules, it can make for headaches, unplanned nights in airports/hotels, redirects on other routes to your final destination. The trick is to be flexible and go with the flow.

So for 3 back to back runs, they have about 1 hr for connections. i.e. SFO-ORD-SFO-ORD-SFO-ORD-SFO. In the event of weather, suppose ORD-SFO arrives late, would that impact the following SFO-ORD? So could the first missed connection cause a ripple down the pipe and screw everything over.

My main concern is can a snow storm put hitting EXP at risk due to rescheduled flights? Or so long as I have the flights booked means that I'm flying that route (at a potentially very delayed time).

And would AA put up passengers in hotels due to weather, or would that be out of my pocket?

Thanks!

I wouldn't do one hour turns out of ORD or SFO, but that's just me. Are you trying to do more than one a day? Three per weekend or so? That's asking for it, imho.

AA will not put you up due to weather. AA might be willing to modify your schedule (say you got stuck in ORD and missed a turn - they "might" help you by deleting segments). Or they might not. You might get lucky with ORC (original routing credit) - you might not.

Hard to say. Leave yourself some time and watch the weather. DelAAys can be just as bad in SFO as they are in ORD, but I suspect you know that.

Yeah, I'd say 1 hour turns are pretty risky, especially if they're purchased as two separate tickets as they would need to be for DEQ11. Since they're not the same ticket, if you get back to SFO on the first rt late by an hour, AA would have completed its end of the bargain by getting you to SFO on that ticket, just an hour late. AA isn't really responsible for making sure you are compensated or accommodated for the next one, since you did miss the outbound on a completely independent itinerary. It could also result in the whole ticket being canceled.

And as Flyer_70 said, you could have weather issues at both ORD and SFO, two major headache airports (with SFO being more painful coming from LAX) to me.

YMMV. DFW has been socked with surprise winter weather the last few years. You might want to leave more than an hour between MRs.

+1, That's what he and/or she said.

How much time do you suggest? I want to MR as much as possible on the weekends.

You may want to start a thread in the MR discussion forum (or join in one of the existing ones) to continue with these questions. Technically this thread should be discussing the DEQAA promo. We've gone a bit OT.

Hey Guys

I'm new to mileage running and I thought I'd kick the new year off by trying to get EXP by the end of January by doing 9 round trip SFO-ORD flights. Since there will be TEQM, it comes out to 11184 EQM. I've scheduled some back to back flights with around 1 hr layovers in between. So SFO-ORD-SFO-ORD-SFO-ORD-SFO and since it's the middle of winter in Chicago, I'm a bit worried about the weather.

1. If the first flight gets delayed, that will potentially cause a ripple effect to all the other flights. If this does happen, can I rebook the last SFO-ORD-SFO to another day? Or does it have to be completed ASAP?
2. I've heard from people that 1hr layovers is a bit crazy, how much time would you allow especially considering the weather?

Thanks!

Hey again.

I would allot 3 hours, but that's just my comfort level. Only the significant delays would cause a missed connection, although you should probably look at the frequency of the SFO-ORD or ORD-SFO flights, because if you miss one, you have to take the next one. You want to space them so that missing one won't cause ripples throughout. Letting one slip is better than making everything slip.

Also, maybe the MR forum is better for this as the UA folks who fly through SFO and ORD a lot might have some good input.

I calculate 99684.

Ok, so I'm a little off =)

It is actually 11076 per roundtrip.

You're using 11076 per round trip after 3X EQM. Is this from gcmap? (That's what I used). I can't seem to find the official AA numbers...

Using the AA timetable it comes out to 11076 as well.