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

Haha, I love that nonrev prayer! I'm definitely going to be whispering that to myself as I wait for my chance to get onto the plane.

So since our passes are on AA, does that mean we can absolutely only fly AA? By that I mean, do they ever try to put you on a plane of one of their subsidiaries? Like if don't get on our first AA flight, would they put us on a US airways flight instead or something? I'm just curious cause there's only two "AA" run flights to Dallas that show up on the trip planner the morning we want to leave, and there's only one DFW-HKG flight a day. I assumed that would mean we'd have to stay the night in Dallas if we couldn't get on the first day. I'm just wondering how many chances we actually have to get on.

I'm looking at the DFW-HKG flight for a few days from now, and there's like 25 nonrevs on there. Our flight in July has 8 nonrevs as of now. If our flight eventually has like 25 non revs, and there's only one AA DFW-HKG flight per day, does that mean people that missed the flight the day before would have higher priority on our flight?

And thank you Mig for the "through" explanation. So those D2RT and D3T I see on that flight on the trip planner is us then?

Also, if coach is booked but they have seats open in first or business will they let you on that? Do you have to pay the service fees for first class if that's all they have open? I read somewhere that said something along the lines of you should dress appropriately for first in case those are the only seats available. Is there anything else I should do to prepare for that?