Always Check Fees Before Booking an American AAdvantage Award on British Airways

by Gary Leff

british airways plane
Aug 18 2017

American AAdvantage adds fuel surcharges to awards on British Airways and Iberia. They’re fairly de minimis for Iberia flights, but for British Airways it makes awards too costly to often be worth it. For coach tickets it’s silly, you pay almost as much as a ticket costs. For premium cabin tickets it’s like paying for a coach ticket and using miles to upgrade, but earning neither miles nor status despite the huge cash co-pay.

That’s bad enough, but on many routes American actually overcharges for these surcharges. And they only fix it and refund customers when caught with their hand in the cookie jar.

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American Keeps Hitting Customers With Fuel Surcharge Mistakes On Award Tickets

by Gary Leff

looking out of airport
Aug 17 2017

Hong Kong law doesn’t allow fuel surcharges on travel originating there. Even British Airways, for instance, doesn’t add fuel surcharges to Hong Kong – London flights. Nonetheless, American Airlines was hitting customers with these fuel surcharges anyway. And only some customers are getting refunds.

They were overcharging these fees on other award tickets to and their response is that sometimes mistakes happen. We need to catch them in act, and we can get refunds for everyone that’s been overcharged.

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SICKENING: Saudi-Backed Media Shows Simulation Shooting Down of Qatar Airways Plane

by Gary Leff

Aug 17 2017

The piece explains the blockade as a decision by ‘the anti-terrorism states’. The air blockade is arguably in violation of international agreements, yet the report suggests that not only is it legal but that “according to international law any state which forbids an airline from crossing above it possesses the right to deal with any airplane entering its realm.”

Indeed, a legitimate improper entry into a country’s air space may be ‘dealt with’. However it follows with a fairly tortured claim that international law provides a proactive right to shoot down an aircraft.

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