AA to let FF use miles for 1-way trips, mixed trips

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DALLAS - American Airlines says it will let frequent fliers use miles to book one-way trips for half the miles of a round trip.

The airline will also let customers redeem miles to fly one leg of a round trip in first-class and fewer miles to fly in coach on the other leg. Officials at American, which developed the first frequent-flier program nearly three decades ago, plans to announce the changes Monday and put them into effect shortly.

They say American is the first major U.S. airline to offer a one-way award ticket at half miles. It's hard to know how many people would use miles for a one-way trip — parents driving a child to college and flying home might — and American officials didn't offer any estimates.

"I think more customers will claim more awards," said Rob Friedman, president of marketing for American's frequent-flier program, AAdvantage. "I think there will be more spontaneous kinds of trips."

The idea of using more miles on one leg of a round trip than the other could appeal to business travelers.

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They say American is the first major U.S. airline to offer a one-way award ticket at half miles.

Wrong... Alaska offered this with Mileage Plan about two years ago.

Still, one-ways have a good side benefit -- being able to mix classes of service. Used to be you had to choose same class of service in both directions.

What I'm a little less excited about is supposedly stopovers are no longer allowed on award tickets.
 
Wrong... Alaska offered this with Mileage Plan about two years ago.

Still, one-ways have a good side benefit -- being able to mix classes of service. Used to be you had to choose same class of service in both directions.

What I'm a little less excited about is supposedly stopovers are no longer allowed on award tickets.

And Southwest has always offered. But I guess they don't consider Southwest a major carrier even though they carry more passengers than AA
 
That's one of the problems with the media - they often only consider the big network carriers as "major carriers".

Jim
 
And Southwest has always offered. But I guess they don't consider Southwest a major carrier even though they carry more passengers than AA

You mean that Southwest will let me use eight Rapid Rewards credits to book a capacity-controlled one-way flight? Great! 'Cause that's what AA now allows. You can claim a capacity-controlled one-way flight for half the mileage of the round-trip award ticket.

Or were you talking about something else that "Southwest has always offered?"
 
You mean that Southwest will let me use eight Rapid Rewards credits to book a capacity-controlled one-way flight? Great! 'Cause that's what AA now allows. You can claim a capacity-controlled one-way flight for half the mileage of the round-trip award ticket.

Or were you talking about something else that "Southwest has always offered?"

Southwest has alway allowed you to use an award as two one ways
 
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