NeoPatrick

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???

andib

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.

aj

We just returned from Paris-Rome FF Delta miles! Glad they are still in business!

swalter518

HOnk honk, 2 tickets to Paris at the end of October on UA. I'm so excited!!!!

bridonohue

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

LindainOhio

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.

mrschef

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!

Luisah

<<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!

slbuz

Honk honk! 5 tics to Athens r/t 50k each - Delta FF. Paid tax only. Divine intervention baby!

Lionors

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.

~Elizabeth

DejaVu

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.

AAFrequentFlyer

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

NeoPatrick

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?

AAFrequentFlyer

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>

T4TX

Honk

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!

AAFrequentFlyer

2 more important rules for AA's OneWorld award ticket:

At least 2 OW partners <b>must&lt;/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>

annw

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.

fishee

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.

AAFrequentFlyer

The mileage charts are at the bottom of this page:

http://tinyurl.com/2evlqk


btw, Thanks...

kechal

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.