Successful Awards: AAdvantage All-Partner

... perhaps some of you successful award obtainers will consider viewing this thread with a question re Middle East to AsIa#1 or Asia #2 http://milepoint.com/forums/threads...a-sub-continent-middle-east-tlv-to-asia.4138/

Just booked HAN-HKG-SFO-DFW-AUS. Long haul is first class on Cathay. Really excited about it, since I have yet to try premium class on a 747. 67.5k AA miles.

HAN-HKG (codeshared on DragonAir) currently a voluntary downgrade to Y -- they don't seem to release business class inventory until about 3 weeks out.

I booked two DragonAir code shares 6 months out in Business. Maybe keep looking for now, don't wait till 3 weeks!

I booked 2 award tickets:

DFW-YYZ on AA J
YYZ-HKG on CX F/J
HKG-PEK on Dragonair F

Then return is
HKG-YYZ on CX F
YYZ-DFW on AA J

The YYZ-HKG leg has 1 seat in F and 1 in J. From what I hear, CX usually release more availability about 4 days out. Anyone else have experience with this.

Thanks for the tip, I plan on keeping an eye out for sure. The flight I'm on is scheduled on an A330 right now, which has 8 business seats.

Not as impressive as some of the others listed but here's mine:

Economy : DEN-LAX-PVG (one way) 35,000 miles - $5

3 hour layover at LAX. New route from LAX to Shanghai (PVG) on AA. American Eagle from DEN to LAX.

Booked: January 2011 Traveling: May 2011

Correct. Using all-partner awards, it would have been 150,000 miles per person, and we wouldn't have stopovers except at the north american gateway. We decided to save 20,000 miles and add stopovers at LHR, AMS, NAP, and MAD. It wasn't a hard choice.

I booked each direction at the 330 day mark.

DFW-SFO AA F
SFO-HKG CX F
HKG-SIN CX J

SIN-HKG CX J exactly 24 hour layover (arrive 2:05pm in HKG, leave 2:05pm the next day)
HKG-SFO CX F
SFO-DFW AA F

That is for 2 people, 67.5k miles each way, 270k total. Taxes were $5 to SIN and $57.50 for the return, $125 total. No booking fees since I am EXP.

OK....you told us when you booked this, but you didn't say when you were going.

Was first HKG a stopover? or connecting?

Departing June 17th, 2011.

I booked an award ticket for my wife and I in November for travel to Italy in Oct. 2011 in J:

LAX - ORD - FCO
MXP - JFK - LAX

100,000 miles each and I don't recall the fees. I was tracking availability of the C inventory with EF and found that for the ORD-FCO and MXP-JFK legs, the C inventory did not open up at 330 days, it was more like 319 or something like that.

One world ticket

SAN-ORD-AMM-MAD-IST-MAD-JFK-LAX-SAN

Two tickets Business class on American, Iberia and Royal Jordanian 120,000 each RT plus about $75 each in taxes/fees

TOTAL: 240,000 plus $150

It must be a connection because no international stopover is allowed.

Both HKG stops are connections. The first connection is a little over an hour, the second one is exactly 24 hours, the exact limit according to the All Partner rules. The only stopovers that would be allowed for that itinerary would be in SFO, my gateway city both directions.

I see, so if my destination is China, then I can make a stopover in HKG for a few days and head to, say PEK?

Our honeymoon (so x2), all booked about 6 months out:
LAX-HKG-DPS CX F (67.5k)
CGK-HKG CX J (22.5k, for stopover)
HKG-JFK-LAX CX F / AA F (67.5k)

My only gripe was that I booked 1 LAX-HKG-DPS with BA and one with AA and BA charged $90 in taxes while AA charged only $15, oh well!

No. Stopover is allowed only at the North America gateway city, the port that you board/dis-embark your over-the-water flights. For CX, they are LAX, SFO, JFK, ORD (after Sept), YVR, YYZ.

You can stopover in HKG if you have and use British Airways or Alaska's miles though.

For how many times I have thought about moving to a NA gateway city to take advantage of the stopover allowance.

Wow, they let you do HKG-JFK-LAX?

I'd love to know that too.

I believe the rule is MPM with 25% overage, and for HKG-LAX the JFK stopover puts it within just a couple hundred miles (has to be the direct transcon). Of course the agent first said there is no way that would work, but then she "put it into her computer to see what it would spit out" and it accepted it. I was quite pleased to get my stopover in NYC and the ride home in F on the 3-class 762.

Now that you mentioned about it, I remember another poster also mentioned about redeeming for HKG-JFK-LAX. It is either the MPM or the routing is allowed in the HKG-LAX routing rules. My memory may be wrong, but I even remember reading HKG-JFK-HNL being allowed. So much I had hoped that I lived in a CX gateway city.

Flying solo 12/26 on Cathay ; JFK-HKG (F) - BKK (J) for 67.5k miles + $2.50 tax plus ticketing fee.
Returning on * TG &NH.

The MPM rule at times can be broken/bended by a friendly agent...

case in point, I wanted to fly WAW-LHR (22 hour connection) to LAX (stopover at my gateway) to JFK, first tried BA accross the pond but agent said no can do due to the MPM, but that if I used AA metal the rules were more flexible, seems odd after the JV, so I got a ticket on AA First, but put it on hold and let it expire...

a few days later called, asked for AA metal from LHR-LAX and just before ticketing I casually asked, so can we switch that to the British 747 flight, a few minutes later pum... I had seat 1A in the cone of the 747 instead of a ugly old 1J on the AA 777 , to top it off no huge surcharge for using BA instead of AA... only 250 or so in total taxes for a WAW-LHR (CE Bus) , LHR-LAX (Ba First) and LAX-JFK (AA 762 First) all of this for some 62.5 miles, cost on ITA of that ticket about 12,000 USD... nice redemption in my book and I get to try the Concorde Room in LHR...

You can stay in HKG exactly 24 hours no more on an All Partner.