Comments on: How to Book Your Next Award Flight Like a Pro https://www.travelcodex.com/book-next-award-flight-like-pro/ Your Resource for Better Travel Tue, 19 Dec 2017 05:46:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2 By: Scottrick https://www.travelcodex.com/book-next-award-flight-like-pro/#comment-355569 Sat, 04 Oct 2014 15:19:00 +0000 https://www.travelcodex.com/?p=19192#comment-355569 In reply to Shawran.

It could be married segment logic. Another possibility is that different airlines are selling the same flights as codeshares and charging different prices. For example, I can sometimes book the same exact Alaska Airlines flight through American Airlines and save $20.

]]> By: Shawran https://www.travelcodex.com/book-next-award-flight-like-pro/#comment-355309 Sat, 04 Oct 2014 05:51:00 +0000 https://www.travelcodex.com/?p=19192#comment-355309 It happened to me a couple of times that when I found cx business savor award on each segment with BA.com, but was unable to make them together on a single AA award ticket. Is it called the married segments?

]]> By: Scottrick https://www.travelcodex.com/book-next-award-flight-like-pro/#comment-354966 Fri, 03 Oct 2014 19:29:00 +0000 https://www.travelcodex.com/?p=19192#comment-354966 In reply to faye.

Most airlines do not release all of their award space to their partners. Often award space is divided into a saver level and a full price (anytime) level. Only the saver level is made available to partners, and even then it is possible that the airline may not release all of it to a partner.

The best way to find out what space is being made available to a partner is to search on the partner, not the operating airline. If the AA website isn’t working for you, then search on another partner — again, there are some variations, but typically all partners get access to the same availability.

]]> By: faye https://www.travelcodex.com/book-next-award-flight-like-pro/#comment-354925 Fri, 03 Oct 2014 18:00:00 +0000 https://www.travelcodex.com/?p=19192#comment-354925 When I called AA to book an award on AirBerlin (found biz seats on AB site) AA said AB didn’t release all their awards seats to AA. Did I need to hang up and call back? BTW found something better

]]> By: Scottrick https://www.travelcodex.com/book-next-award-flight-like-pro/#comment-354741 Fri, 03 Oct 2014 14:02:00 +0000 https://www.travelcodex.com/?p=19192#comment-354741 In reply to Jonathan.

You don’t. Both carriers (British Airways and American Airlines) fly to London and can be booked with American Airlines’ AAdvantage miles.

]]> By: Jonathan https://www.travelcodex.com/book-next-award-flight-like-pro/#comment-354715 Fri, 03 Oct 2014 13:13:00 +0000 https://www.travelcodex.com/?p=19192#comment-354715 Most U.S. carriers, including United Airlines, do not impose fuel surcharges on awards. American Airlines doesn’t, either, except for flights on British Airways. Both carriers fly to London and both can be booked with American Airlines’ AAdvantage miles

how do you book united flights w aa miles? or did i misread that?

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