MilesBuzz! - American-US Air Agreement

First of all, thanks for all the welcomes...

Here's a more specific question. For the next six months, i will be taking the US Air shuttle to D.C. every week. For all of '99, the trip nets me 500 miles on US Air and AA for each leg. Question: Can i then combine those miles for AA trips?? I'm pretty positive you can combine them for US Air flights, but i don't know if the reciprocal works... That would be a great way to rack up miles on AA. Too bad these flights don't count towards elite status on AA.

You bet. You can "pool" any Dividend Miles and Aadvantage Miles for any US award or AA award, so long as it is on the special chart of awards each offers to the others' program members. That means no upgrades, no discount two-ticket awards, and no partner awards, in the main. You also have to request the award at least 21 days before you depart; apparently the pooling process is manual and takes a bit of time.

Charlie