A couple of questions from an AAdvantage newbie

[Kangol]

Re: Couple of AAdvantage questions from a newbie to it

I believe so. FT anecdotal evidence suggests so, but I am not sure if it's officially been added.

Can you post the link(s) referencing this?

 

[Pushka]

Thanks to this thread. Really happy with two F purchases DXB to Sydney on the A380 for around $3200. And the chauffeur booking already made.

 

[Pushka]

Re: Couple of AAdvantage questions from a newbie to it

An update. MrP and I were travelling in F on different days. I checked today and another F opened up on MrP's flight so I jumped on the phone and it was changed for free! Never thought they'd open more awards but there were also several new J seats as well.

Very happy with that!

 

[_TheTraveller_]

Re: Couple of AAdvantage questions from a newbie to it

Does anyone know how qualification works if your flight is on the 30/12 but it doesn't post till after the 1/1? In this case, is it automatic that I re-qualify or do i have to chase it up?

 

[knasty]

Re: Couple of AAdvantage questions from a newbie to it

It will post effective flight date. Your status carries over until end of Feb anyway.

 

[drron]

This is just as a reminder.Never just view the Australian AA website.Always check the US as well.
Why?Later in the year flying ORD-MCO-aa.com.au wants $A2386 for an instant upgrade fare,aa.com has a confirmed F seat for $US330.

 

[ChasingDaylight]

I've got an AA booking on hold (int to the UK). If I don't purchase it now, does it automatically appear back again on the AA website? I want to try and start it at WLG instead of DRW and perhaps VCE/FCO or similar instead of terminating at LHR.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

I've got an AA booking on hold (int to the UK). If I don't purchase it now, does it automatically appear back again on the AA website? I want to try and start it at WLG instead of DRW and perhaps VCE/FCO or similar instead of terminating at LHR.

better to keep the existing booking and just change the flights you need.

 

[ChasingDaylight]

Cheers for that. It's on hold at present (F flight to UK on BA) so have to decide what I want to do and when.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Cheers for that. It's on hold at present (F flight to UK on BA) so have to decide what I want to do and when.

There is no guarantee the flights will go back into award inventory. And even if they do... someone could snap them up before you do.

If you have some flights you want, you just keep those and tweak the others around them.

 

[ChasingDaylight]

Thanks for the advice. One further question - is there a 4 flight limit on award flights? Looking at AA.com, I can find spots from FCO to ASP/BNE/ADL/MEL/SYD available, but nothing to DRW. If I change it from FCO to LHR to DRW, then there's available spots.

 

[JessicaTam]

Thanks for the advice. One further question - is there a 4 flight limit on award flights? Looking at AA.com, I can find spots from FCO to ASP/BNE/ADL/MEL/SYD available, but nothing to DRW. If I change it from FCO to LHR to DRW, then there's available spots.

I haven't seen more than 4 flights before. But I am not the most prolific of AA searcher.

 

[knasty]

AFAIK if you meet the routing rules and MPM any combo should be OK?

 

[MEL_Traveller]

AFAIK if you meet the routing rules and MPM any combo should be OK?

the routing rules are the kicker. Basically AA requires a published fare for the route (which I guess would be within MPM anyway) and then they have their whole set of restrictions on which zones you can and can't use.

So JAL offers a fare SYD-NRT-PEK, but you can't ticket that as a single award via AA as you can't go through Asia 1 on the way to Asia 2.

For travel from Europe, you'd need to meet the restrictions such as no connection in the Middle East.

 

[ChasingDaylight]

Have just searched again, and now have one with five flights/segments which gets me back to DRW (though FCO/LHR/DXB/MEL/ADL/DRW is not my idea of fun) and have put it on hold to have a think about it. This routing, or FCO/LHR/SIN in F and then a cheapie JQ fare back to DRW? Decisions, decisions.

 

[dalereardon]

What search tool are you using to search?
If searching on AA then it doesn't show CX or Qatar as just some that might have availability.

 

[knasty]

Re: Couple of AAdvantage questions from a newbie to it

F 'n' Jetstar. Has a certain ring to it. It's a fine line between pleasure and pain...

 

[ChasingDaylight]

Thanks for that Dale - yes using the AA website. Will give them a call to discuss after I confirm I can take the leave I'm after. Some of the ticketing/options online are interesting - I can do FCO/LHR in C/J then LHR/SIN in F on BA15 but no further routing on that award to Australia, though if I search on the same date of arrival into SIN, there is a single option of BA15 SIN/SYD. (I'm sort of figuring there's no FF availability for the complete LHR/SIN/SYD? As I can get DRW/SYD/SIN/LHR out the outbound)

 

[dalereardon]

What you should do is get a free account at Book Flights, Holidays & Check In Online | British Airways and then you can search the whole of OneWorld. Believe me CX J is just fantastic and if you can get their F you are doing even better.

www.awardnexus.com is also a great search tool and they offer free community accounts to AFF members but I can't remember where the signup details are for that.

Dale.

 

[ChasingDaylight]

Thanks Dale. I'd forgotten about awardnexus (and do have a community account!). BA's system for searching award flights is down at the moment so I will give it another go tomorrow.