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Anonymous Guest

January 21, 2016, 12:38 am

Hi,
I am looking to book my parents an award on CX in F from ORD-DPS, routing through HKG, using AA miles.
I have found availability on the ORD-HKG segment with one seat in F (no two seats are available right now) and the other in J, and I would just upgrade the J to F a few days before the flight, but by the time they go, the mileage redemption would have gone from 67.5K (or whatever it is to the Asia 2 region) to 110K for First.

SOOOOO…my thought was book the second F ticket on the ORD-BOS-HKG-DPS route and then change the routing from ORD-HKG-DPS a few days out when more seats open up. Since the origin and destination stay the same, I should be able to do that without a fee, right?

In theory this works, but do you think it would be too big of a risk? Just make one of my parents fly business? Or maybe I’ll just sign up for a new AA card and use the 50K sign up bonus to negate the upgrade issue.

Just want to hear some thoughts from other travelers. Thanks!

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