For weeks American AAdvantage members haven't been able to book award travel on Etihad due to an issue with accessing availability. This has finally been fixed, so you can once again redeem American miles for travel on Etihad!
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Hi Ben
I have some miles to burn with alaska and AA and I want to do a trip to the middle east since I haven't been there before. Do you have a list of favorite cities? I will most likely be flying qatar, emirates and Etihad.
@ danny -- I've only ever done Abu Dhabi, Dubai, and Doha. I'd say they're all worth a couple of days. I've heard amazing things about Muscat, Oman, so in your shoes I'd visit there.
Not true, oneworld partners except for BA and another one are never bookable online on aa.com
AA must allow us to book partner award flights.
I'm planning a trip to Maldive from SFO with AA miles. Would you recommend SFO-XXX-AUH-MLE on Ethiad or SFO-XXX-DOH-MLE on Qatar in J? Too bad AA would not allow SFO-HKG-MLE routing.
Sorry Ben I'm sure you've mentioned before, but what's the best method to find Etihad availability?
@ jim -- Sorry, what's not true? Don't think I said Etihad was bookable online, though there are quite a few partner airlines that are, including airberlib, British Airways, Finnair, Royal Jordanian, Qantas.
@ Will C -- I think Etihad has a better business class product, so I would go with them. Keep in mind it's not that many more miles to just book two awards and route via Hong Kong, especially if you did first class.
@ Ed -- Here's a tutorial:
https://onemileatatime.com/search-etihad-award-space/
If I were you, I'd do Muscat and choose between one of the big 3 (Dubai, Abu Dhabi, or Doha). You really don't need to all of the big 3 unless you just want to knock them all off of your bucket list. And if you really want somewhere interesting in the Middle East with a bit more authentic culture, Jordan is also a good option.
Hi Ben, I just called American today and the agents said they still can't book Etihad flights. I am a bit confused now.
I booked an EY flight yesterday with AAdvantage miles just file - took less than 10 minutes including talking to the IVR phone system & giving all details to the agent. Thanks for the heads up that booking was back!