Thread: ZED Help

Your daughter could purchase the zed fare for you stateside or werever there is an AA ato and then mail it to you in the Philippines.

Regards,

Chepos

Mail to the Philippines from the US gives a whole new meaning to snail mail. My friend mailed me a birthday card on 8/17 and I got it 9/12 so anything by mail is not a good plan.

As for Philippine Airlines, it looks to me like AA does not have an agreement with them for parents to participate in either ID or ZED fares. If anyone could verify that one way or another, then I can either pursue or not the PAL option.

I plead ignorance of the details that I need for purchase of a ZED fare. Looking at the goZED site, there are tons of flights from Manila to LAX, all with at least one connection but none on AA.

What all would I need in order for her to purchase a ZED ticket for me? e.g. from goZED, traveling Oct 10, 2011 on Korean Airlines, Flight KE 622 departing Manila 12:20 PM, arriving in Seoul (ICN) at 04:15 PM, departing ICN on Asiana flight OZ 204 at 08:20 PM arriving at LAX at 03:20 PM. A price listed but doesn't mention taxes or any other fees. And what to do about a return flight? Do I have to establish the same parameters for that at the time the first ticket is purchased so both can be bought at the same time?

And generally:
I think these tickets are basically space available, so what happens if there is no space available on one of the legs? If I have a ticket for 10/10/11 leaving ICN on OZ 204 and it is full, is the ticket worthless? or will they roll me over to a subsequent flight? I have done lots of flying both commercially and non-rev but very little internationally and none ID90 or ZED so I am a babe in the woods (well maybe not a babe, an ogre is more like it!<gr>) when it comes to all the gotchas to look out for.

Thanks for your posts and look forward to any other input you may give me.

GWB

Use caution when flying space available out of Manila. During holiday periods flights out of Manila are a headache (heavy loads), especially the nonstops to the US.
I had a co-worker whose wife and kids got stuck in Manila for 3 weeks, they finally purchased a ticket via Sydney and then got a buddy pass from a UAL friend and nonreved back tot eh US.
Stay away from Guam, extremely difficult to make it out of Guam to Honolulu- and then toe mainland.
Keep in mind you have - Hawaiian, DL CX, NH, OZ, KE all those airline fly from MNL to the US via their respective Asian hubs.

Regards,

Chepos

Originally Posted by mrs767er

I think we meant more like Fedex or UPS for mail. I wouldn't trust the USPS w/tickets either!Yes--space available so choose wisely. Zeds are refundable. You should always ask about rollover to next flight. I have never had to interchange a zed--airline A to airline B. ID tkts are carrier specific--ID75, 90, etc. Parents usually pay higher zed level or ID % than employee.I don't use gozed so I can't speak for it. Zed is for any flight city to city--any airline that has agreement w/AA.I'm sure can tell you if AA works similar to DL--your daughter should be able do all of this w/relative ease on her company website. I'd just get whatever you can to reach an AA gateway. I assume NRT, ICN are good options. I see Cathay via HKG as an option. Do you have a Low Cost Carrier in Philippines?You could zed on DL to NRT.

OK Thanks. I can see that DL is included on the goZED list of service out of Manila to Japan, then on to LAX US from there. Also CX from MNL as you pointed out. I'm sorry to be dense about this but: I select a flight on CX, email that to my daughter. She goes to AA (or are you saying that she can make the arrangements on her company web site and email me the results) presents the route information and pays for the ticket. She receives a paper ticket which she Fed-Ex's to me. On the departure date, I take the ticket to the CX desk and am then on a space available status for both legs of the trip? I could go DL or CX out of MNL or I am going to Singapore on a purchased ticket next week so I could also leave from SIN on CX. I have a lot of options at this point and need to start narrowing them down quickly. With your extensive knowledge of using ZED tickets, how do you ensure there is space available on the flight/airline you select? I can go anytime during the week of October 9th, so I would like to pick a flight/airline that I have a reasonable good chance of getting a seat. Thanks for your responses.GWB

Dear ZP18ZP18 - You have a lot of questions here, most of which your daughter can answer if she reviews the TRIP book available on Jetnet, where AA has published step by step instructions for obtaining ZED tickets.

You also reference goZED quite a bit, note that AA does not subscribe to goZED any longer so if you're accesssing that site somehow, the informaiton is very likely to be out-of-date. Instead, through Jetnet, your daughter can access the Interline Fare Calculator, powered by ID90T. This has the most up-to-date information about American's agreements with other airlines, including eligibility, fares, and taxes.

Basically, and as has been pointed out here, once you've determined on which airlines you desire to travel and on which routes, your daughter will need to obtain paper tickets on those airlines. These tickets are OPEN, so valid on any flight/date in the ticketed market, but valid for 90 days only. In most cases, if AA's agreement includes parents, then there is an allotment of 1 ticket per year.

Again, you need to ask your daughter to review the information in TRIP and share that with you so that you are both well informed of the process, as well as AA's policies and procedures.