Timeline for American Airlines: The class of service may not be available
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| Aug 2, 2021 at 14:57 | answer | added | choster | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 1, 2021 at 1:34 | comment | added | Hilmar | @jacorn: maybe. I tried the search with economy and still got the warning on every single flight. To be precise: AA doesn't let your search just for "economy". The only choices are "show all" and "business/first". So it gives the warning before you have even chosen a class. | |
| Jul 31, 2021 at 21:38 | comment | added | jcaron | You say “Plenty of business class seats available on all legs” then “business/first”. It’s not business on all flights… The trigger for the warning must be simplified to “at least one leg is not business” and not have an ordering of first > business > premium > coach (contrary to the booking engine itself). As long as they sell you a specific class of service of each flight, you should be able to trust that (barring of course the usual last-minute operational issues with the intended plane replaced with another, but that’s completely independent of the message IMHO). | |
| Jul 31, 2021 at 13:51 | history | edited | Hilmar | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 31, 2021 at 11:32 | comment | added | jcaron | Does it show up as actual business on all legs? This type of message usually means that you can get business on one flight (usually the international/long haul segment), but not on another flight (usually shorter domestic ones which don’t have 3-class service). Depending on the airline, site or booking engine, it may provide a higher (first) or lower (coach) class of service on flights where there’s no business class. You should be able to find the information at time of booking (Google Flights shows it, doesn’t seem obvious on the mobile version of aa.com) | |
| Jul 31, 2021 at 11:30 | comment | added | dunni | Are you searching directly on aa.com? I couldn't reproduce this message, but i would assume that it relates to US domestic legs, since the US carriers still have the scheme Economy/First Class instead of the usual Economy/Business/First Class (except for some premium routes). So if you specifically search for Business class, it's technically not available on domestic legs, but you will be seated in the First Class seats there. | |
| Jul 31, 2021 at 11:10 | history | asked | Hilmar | CC BY-SA 4.0 |