Award Booking Codes (AA)
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Award Booking Codes
Booking Classes for oneworld free ticket awards
Carrier First Business Prem Eco Economy ----------------------------------------------------------------- AA - American Airlines Z U T ----------------------------------------------------------------- AB - airberin U X ----------------------------------------------------------------- AY - Finnair U X ----------------------------------------------------------------- BA - British Airways Z U P X ----------------------------------------------------------------- CX - Cathay Pacific Z U ? X KA - Dragonair U X ----------------------------------------------------------------- IB - Iberia Z U X ----------------------------------------------------------------- JL - Japan Airlines (Intl) Z U P T JL - Japan Airlines (Dom) Z D S ----------------------------------------------------------------- LA - LAN Chile Z U T ----------------------------------------------------------------- MH - Malaysia Airlines P U X ----------------------------------------------------------------- QF - Qantas Airways P U Z X/T ----------------------------------------------------------------- RJ - Royal Jordanian U X ----------------------------------------------------------------- S7 - S7 Airlines U X -----------------------------------------------------------------
Source: KVS Tool
Notes: Prem Eco (Premium Economy) cabin redemptions are not offered by the terms of some programs, such as AA's AAdvantage. However they may be available for voluntary downgrades from Business Class (unconfirmed).
Ticket awards on AA Partners
Carrier First Business Economy -------------------------------------------------------- AS - Alaska Airlines A W -------------------------------------------------------- AB - Air Berlin U* X* -------------------------------------------------------- FJ - Air Pacific U X -------------------------------------------------------- EY - Etihad O I N -------------------------------------------------------- G3 - GOL I X -------------------------------------------------------- GF - Gulf Air P Z T -------------------------------------------------------- HA - Hawaiian Airlines D T -------------------------------------------------------- IT - Kingfisher U X -------------------------------------------------------- JJ - TAM Airlines* D U T PZ - TAM Mercosur ? ? T -------------------------------------------------------- LY - El Al Israel X J -------------------------------------------------------- TN - Air Tahiti Nui A I W -------------------------------------------------------- 9W - Jet Airways R D X --------------------------------------------------------
Source: KVS Tool
Upgrade Awards
Carrier First Business Prem Eco ---------------------------------------------------- AA - American Airlines A C ---------------------------------------------------- BA - British Airways Z U P ---------------------------------------------------- CX - Cathay Pacific Z U ? KA - Dragonair U ---------------------------------------------------- IB - Iberia ? ? ----------------------------------------------------
Source: KVS Tool
Notes:
- Award seats first become available 330 days from the flight date on most airlines, and more may be added closer to the flight date if sales are slow or projected to be slow.
- For American Airlines Executive Platinum and travel companions, AA offers enhanced (increased) award availability. It is accessed only by an AA customer service representative with an active record of an EXP member; ExpertFlyer and other methods only display normal award availability.
- QF - Qantas does not make any award inventory available within 24 hours of scheduled flight departure
- JJ - TAM: flights within South America need to be booked at least 7 days in advance unless they are a connection to a flight in/out for this region.
- AB - Air Berlin: for reservations made prior to 30OCT11, business is F and economy is E.
Historical Notes:
- IT - Kingfisher Airlines: Cased operations October 2012
- JL - Japan Airlines: First Award Booking Class changed from A to Z (Effective ~2010).
- EI - Aer Lingus is leaving the AAdvantage program on November 1, 2008. All award travel must be booked by October 31, 2008 and completed by October 31, 2009.
- JJ - TAM left the AAdvantage program November 14, 2007. All award travel had to be booked and ticketed by November 13, 2007 and travel completed by November 13, 2008.
- TK - Turkish Airlines left the AAdvantage program March 30, 2008. All award travel must have been booked my March 29, 2008 and completed by March 29, 2009.
- LY - El Al: until 30 September 2009, economy was booked in R
- BA - British Airways: until 29 August 2006, EXP, PLT and travel companions were booked in V inventory for economy travel. If V wasn't available, X could be used.
- TA - TACA: relationship ended 30 June 2006 (was - D T)
- LX - SWISS international: relationship ended 31 Oct 2006, was booked in R for business and E in economy prior to their class realignment to join Star Alliance (early 2006)
- SN - Brussels Airlines: was A Z E until late April 2008
- MX - Mexicana joined oneworld on 10 November 2009; ceased operations 28 Aug 2010.
- G3 - GOL redemptions effective 10 March 2010