Thread: New to non-rev travel and now registered companion on AA--a few questions!

Thank you all! I'll take a closer look at the UStravel area on jetnet. I was confused if it was even possible, so thanks for clearing it up! Spongebue, thanks for the imputed income answer! That was super helpful. I was thinking I should be careful about how much I use it as well! I don't want to have to write my aunt a huge check, haha. Is there any chance if you know if the airlines send the IRS this info, or is she expected to report it?

Sooo... I have one more question if you generous AA folks could help me. Sorry, I seem to just be coming up with new ones as I get further into this! So right now we are listed for a flight to from Phoenix to Dallas that arrives at 10:51 am. Then our flight to Hong Kong departs Dallas at 12:45 pm. I just looked, and there is an earlier flight from Phoenix that gets to Dallas around 9 am. That one also has more seats available (currently, at least). I thought it might be better to list us for that earlier flight so if we get kicked off we'd have a second chance to get to Dallas before the Hong Kong flight leaves. Should I cancel the first PNR and re-list us for the earlier Dallas flight and our Hong Kong flight again (since both flights are on the same first PNR, it's my understanding that we'd have to re-list for the Hong Kong flight?) I checked and no other non-revs have listed for the Hong Kong flight, so I don't think we'd lose our place or anything. I'm just not sure about the best way to do this.

Also, in your experience, how quickly do flights fill up as the flight date approaches? I'm sure it probably depends on the flight, but I'm just curious since both our flights are currently in green, but the first only has 60 seats left and the Hong Kong one has around 100 left I think. And it's a little under a month away.