American Airlines has expanded their online award searching and booking. You can now book the following airlines online:
- Sri Lankan
- Qatar
- Air Tahiti Nui
Earlier this year they briefly added Sri Lanka and Qatar (along with Cathay Pacific, Malaysian, S7 & LATAM) only to quickly remove them shortly after. Recently they also added Fiji and Malaysia as well. It looks like these are showing most routes, whereas when they were briefly added before not all routes that were bookable via phone were showing online. As I mentioned last time, some people will actually see this as a devaluation as making these easier to book will mean that competition for award space will increase. Personally I hate dealing with long boring award calls so I see this as a win, but can sympathize with those who have spent time perfecting these award calls and routings.
Perfect timing for my upcoming trip to Sri Lanka! Thanks, Doc.
I still don’t see Qatar in searching for booking flights in aa.com/aadvantage
Now I wish their app would have the capability to search for award flights like other airlines’ apps.
It does. It was recently updated o allow award searches.
Oh my god. Time to redownload it.
Don’t bother, still junk. Better to use website.
Seems to be the case. I keep searching flights from Hong Kong that BA is showing and the app just errors before it can even do the search.
Same – doesn’t seem the CX search is reliable enough to replace searching through BA and JL.
Great for people travelling to and from India
The title says they’ve added 3 but it lists 5. I don’t think CX should be named. Should it?
Yup, my mistake. Fixed now
You’d think they have to release at least some biz availability
Why does the headline list 6 airlines when only 3 of them were added to online search?
Copy paste error, fixed now.
I don’t see LATAM available, at least not to Lima…
DOC…Earlier this year they had added S7 also (in one of those testing glitches), I don’t see it available in yesterday’s roll out. So it seems like more changes are coming to AA portal.
Good point
LAX-PPT economy award are available on TN but no bus/1st
shocker
I was looking at that as well. I saw some in Nov-January (like 3 different dates)
Mixed thoughts on this as the extra step required before (searching on BA.com or Quantas.com) was something the masses didn’t understand or utilize.
Personally, I’m really glad that this came about, mainly because of people like you wishing for everyone else not to be able to take advantage of this due to their limited knowledge of the “system”.