![]() ![]() ![]() So if Etihad has no fare between Richmond and the Maldives, then you’re going to be looking at two award tickets - say, Richmond to Abu Dhabi and Abu Dhabi to the Maldives, costing an extra 25,000 miles for one-way business class from Abu Dhabi to the Maldives or 25,000 miles for first class Richmond to your US departure gateway. And you have to follow their routing rules for any connections. Specifically, the primary overwater carrier has to publish a routing between your starting and ending cities in order to fly between those two cities on a single award. Published routing: You have to fly a ‘published routing’ in order to book an award. This restriction means no more ‘free one-way awards’ using American miles. You can transit a city for 23 hours and 59 minutes and that’s just a connection (go explore a city for no extra miles) but once you hit 24 hours that would be a stopover and an extra award. When you’re putting together an international award, the 24 hour rule applies even to your domestic connecting segments. Anything over 4 hours on a purely domestic award, and (what’s relevant for this purpose) anything 24 hours or longer on an international award would constitute a stopover and require a separate award. For other regions of the world, say you’re originating in Europe and want an award to the Middle East or India, you select Europe as the region whose chart you want to look at. This is the chart for flights starting from North America (the prices are the same if you are going to North America). How to Book American AAdvantage Awards: One-Way Partner Awardsīut they now have a separate chart for each region of the world. This will show you the rules, tips, and tricks to make the most of your American miles for international award tickets on American’s own flights and on their airline partners. So what I know about these awards comes from hundreds of award bookings I’ve made, discussions with others, and of course checking against the knowledge that’s been published by a definitive source online in the form of unpublished rules shared over at. I’ve written guides on this in the past, but since those rules have recently had some minor tweaks (and there have been a handful of such tweaks since the last time I updated the guide) it makes sense to walk through them again.Īs I said, American doesn’t publish this information anyway. What I don’t like is that American has the most complex routing rules of any frequent flyer program and they do not publish those rules publicly at all so members are often left scratching their heads as to why an award costs a certain price. ![]() In contrast, Delta adds fuel surcharges onto awards that originate in Europe or that are on certain partners (like China Southern and China Eastern) and United does not add fuel surcharges onto award tickets at all. This makes the cost of transatlantic awards expensive in cash, since BA is their largest partner across the Atlantic. ![]() They also only add significant fuel surcharges onto British Airways awards (and modest fuel surcharges onto Iberia awards). The mileage price for most destinations, in business and especially first class, is quite good. I really like American AAdvantage’s award chart for premium cabin redemptions. If the mileage program lets you combine those flights into a single award or makes you redeem multiple awards (routing rules).Whether they impose fuel surcharges or other fees (cash pricing).The mileage program’s award chart (miles pricing).Whether (and what kind of) award seats are open on the flights you want (availability).Booking American AAdvantage Awards: Your ability to book an award, and how much it costs, is a function of: ![]()
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