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Garyloo, I'm no expert on coach awards, but are you saying that you CAN do a week long (or so) stopover in Rochester between Las Vegas and London on an AA free coach award???
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Taking my daughter to Barcelona as high school graduation present next week. But oops - some money I saved on flights goes to Passport expeditor - dumb mom forgot to check on expiration date of daughter's passport, which was January 07.
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We just returned from Paris-Rome FF Delta miles! Glad they are still in business!
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HOnk honk, 2 tickets to Paris at the end of October on UA. I'm so excited!!!!
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delta - 4 tix 50 k each
july - august dca-atl-dub (delta) 1 week stop dub-cdg (af) 24 hour stop cdg-naples (af) 4 weeks nap-cdg-iad (af) very happy with delta booked the tix exactly 330 days out |
Flying Sept. 2nd Cleveland/Chicago/Shannon using 60,000 AA miles. Booked online March 15 and only had to change our date one day. Only had enough miles for 1 economy milesAAver ticket but other ticket was only a total of $704 including tax.
I have lots of Continental miles (they are the major carrier in Cleveland) but I seem to have a lot more trouble redeeming them. |
We're flying Miami to London with AMEX membership miles...our son is flying out sooner. He's going on a post high-school backpacking trip through Europe! He needed to fly on AA in order to be with his friends. I was actually able to get him a ticket with miles by contacting AMEX. They had me book with Mexicana who happens to partner with AA. It was odd, but successful! Off we go!
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<<I'll have a flat bed upstairs on the 747.
I still haven't decided whether I will sleep or pass out on the flights.>> Don't forget to get off the plane. Flying Atl to Venice, upgraded with miles to BE, but on Delta, no flatbed for me -- darn! |
Honk honk! 5 tics to Athens r/t 50k each - Delta FF. Paid tax only. Divine intervention baby!
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Honk! Honk!
Two tickets from Dallas to London, flying back from Edinburgh to Dallas, on American. Taking BA for the Edinburgh-London leg of the return trip, but it's part of oneworld, so it counts. Got to love getting FF miles for paying for stuff you'd buy anyway. :D ~Elizabeth |
Honk! Just got back from using Delta miles for ATL-AMS, CDG-ATL. SkySaver with 50K, so here's a shout-out to the helpful Delta agent who worked with me for a half hour to find flights for me. :-)
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My future bride and I have the following on hold:
<i> AMERICAN AIRLINES 307 LGA New York Sep 06, 2007 01:30 PM ORD Chicago Sep 06, 2007 03:10 PM First Z 3E, 3F AMERICAN AIRLINES 54 ORD Chicago Sep 06, 2007 05:35 PM MAN Manchester Sep 07, 2007 07:15 AM Business U 3A, 3B BRITISH AIRWAYS 1389 MAN Manchester Sep 10, 2007 10:00 AM LHR London Sep 10, 2007 11:00 AM Economy X unassigned BRITISH AIRWAYS 856 LHR London Sep 10, 2007 02:45 PM PRG Prague Sep 10, 2007 05:40 PM Business U unassigned MALEV HUNGARIAN 821 PRG Prague Sep 14, 2007 10:10 AM BUD Budapest Sep 14, 2007 11:15 AM Economy R unassigned MALEV HUNGARIAN 402 BUD Budapest Sep 14, 2007 06:00 PM FCO Rome Sep 14, 2007 07:40 PM Economy R unassigned IBERIA 3609 FCO Rome Sep 20, 2007 08:00 AM MAD Madrid Sep 20, 2007 10:20 AM Business U 1C, 1A IBERIA 6251 MAD Madrid Sep 20, 2007 01:05 PM JFK New York Sep 20, 2007 04:35 PM Business U 2C, 2A</i> All that for 80K AA miles each. Some people here are confusing AA's OneWorld awards with AA's All Partner awards. Different awards all together. The above would cost a great deal more AA miles if it was an AAdvantage All Partner award. The above is a OneWorld award. Limits airlines to OneWorld airlines only but saves miles. All Partner awards open the possibility of ALL AA's AAdvantage partners but in many cases cost more miles. Not all AAdvantage partners are OneWorld partners. One World partners: AA BA and some affiliatesa) Iberia FinnAir Malev Hungarian Cathay Pacific Qantas Royal Jordanian Japan Airlines LAN Chile (and some affiliates) Only the above can be used with OneWorld award. There are many AAdvantage partners which can not be used with OneWorld awards, only All Partner awards. Some of the AAdvantage partners are: Alaska Air TAM Hawaiian Airlines Gulf Air Isreal Airlines Brussels Airlines Air Tahiti Nui Turkish Airlines Air Sahara Air Pacific Aer Lingus |
AAFrequent Flyer, I'm following all that except why isn't it 90,000 miles? How did you get the extra 10,000 mile reduction, or was that a special?
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Because it's an AA OneWorld award, NOT the AA All Partner award. It's based on mileage between stopover points only. The following is:
8939 miles total. LGA-ord-MAN-lhr-PRG-bud-FCO-mad-JFK. The connections don't count for the mileage total, so only the straight line between LGA-MAN counts even though we're flying through ORD and the same is true for the rest of the trip. Straight line mileage between MAN-PRG, PRG-FCO and finally FCO-JFK. and according to AA OneWorld page: any trip from 4001 to 9000 miles is 80K AA miles for business class <i>Distance Zone 3 Total Trip Miles = 4,001 - 9,000 Award Code Economy Class OW60Y Business Class <b>OW80C</b> First Class OW100F</i> |
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We used Continental miles to get 4 First Class tickets from Austin to Venice on 5/4/07 returning from Rome on 5/17/07. Each ticket was 100,000 miles. Startin in early November I used the internet to search for available reward tickets and quickly found that Venice/Rome had almost no availability. I would also call and speak with the agents, who were helpful but couldn't get 4 to/from Italy without going through another European city first so: In mid-December I booked 4 tickets Austin/Newark/Frankfurt/Milan/Venice and Rome/London/Newark/Austin return. In mid-January I was able to get 2 tickets from Rome therby cutting out the London leg, but I was not able to get 2 more tickets prior to our leaving on our trip. For the Austin to Venice, we flew from Austin to Newark to Frankfurt arriving 9am. We had FF tickets from Frankfurt to Milan to Venice departing 6pm, but instead of taking that flight we took a noon Lufthansa flight, which got us into Venice at 2pm instead of 9pm. While on our trip we went to an internet cafe twice and checked on First Class reward ticket availability and we were able to get 2 more tickets on the Rome/Newark/Austin flight. It cost $50 to change the tickets but we actually got money back because the airport fees are higher for London than Rome! |
2 more important rules for AA's OneWorld award ticket:
At least 2 OW partners <b>must</B be used and AA does not count nor is it needed. A connection over 6 hours may be considered a stopover unless the next available flight is not possible within that time period, but no more than 24 hours is allowed for connections under any circumstances. </b> |
Flying SFO to Venice and back from Rome on Delta next week, using miles to upgrade from Coach to Business. I've used mileage to upgrade 5 similar trips in the last four years. The TA books 330 days ahead.
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AAFF -- that's amazing. I didn't know there was a partner/one world distinction -- is that specification on the award chart? This is different from an RTW ticket, isn't it?
congratulations on your engagement. |
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Using miles for two tickets to Italy (in to Rome, Out from Venice). I also had to purchase two additonal tickets at a cost of ~$1500 each.
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