Major AAdvantage revisions
Nov 17, 2015, 4:48 pm
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Major AAdvantage revisions
American Airlines has released information on major revisions to its AAdvantage frequent flyer program, effective in January (and March) of 2016.
http://www.aa.com/i18n/AAdvantage/pr...antage2016.jsp
Of particular interest to users of Oneworld member airlines and Oneworld products are revisions to AA's elite status qualifications, which, among other things, eliminate the Elite Qualifying Points (EQP) option for elite qualification and replaces it with "multipliers" to Elite Qualifying Miles (EQM) earned in various fare categories. Flights on AA metal can earn additional EQMs per flown mile in premium cabins, a benefit which on first glance does not extend to partners.
The changes are wide-ranging and are are too many to list in one post; feel free to add observations or questions below. I will "stick" this thread for the time being.
Here is the main discussion thread on the AA board: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/ameri...announced.html
Gardyloo
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http://www.aa.com/i18n/AAdvantage/pr...antage2016.jsp
Of particular interest to users of Oneworld member airlines and Oneworld products are revisions to AA's elite status qualifications, which, among other things, eliminate the Elite Qualifying Points (EQP) option for elite qualification and replaces it with "multipliers" to Elite Qualifying Miles (EQM) earned in various fare categories. Flights on AA metal can earn additional EQMs per flown mile in premium cabins, a benefit which on first glance does not extend to partners.
The changes are wide-ranging and are are too many to list in one post; feel free to add observations or questions below. I will "stick" this thread for the time being.
Here is the main discussion thread on the AA board: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/ameri...announced.html
Gardyloo
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Nov 17, 2015, 6:50 pm
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Just finished reading the full AA board thread. Unsurprisingly it doesn't discuss how on earth revenue based (AA) RDMs will be calculated on an xONEx product when it all switches to being based on amount paid. This forum is where most xONEx discussion happens so perhaps this is the right thread for anyone with thoughts to comment? Anyone know how Star Alliance RTW products credit to UA as I guess that's a model for what we can expect?
Nov 17, 2015, 8:10 pm
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The new EQM earning rates for booking classes A/D/L from 1 January 2016 are:
- In premium cabins the EQM earn will the same as the current EQP earn (1.5 per mile), except that the earn in D class on Malaysian is increased from 1.25 to 1.5 and the earn on S7 is decreased from 1.5 to 1.0
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- In Economy, booking class L, the new EQM earn is generally half the current EQP earn (down from 1.0 per mile to 0.5); the exceptions are those airlines that already gave less than 1.0 - their earn rates appear unchanged. Also the earn on BA will be further halved from 1 Feb 2016 (so down from 0.5 to 0.125)
Nov 17, 2015, 10:42 pm
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Just finished reading the full AA board thread. Unsurprisingly it doesn't discuss how on earth revenue based (AA) RDMs will be calculated on an xONEx product when it all switches to being based on amount paid. This forum is where most xONEx discussion happens so perhaps this is the right thread for anyone with thoughts to comment? Anyone know how Star Alliance RTW products credit to UA as I guess that's a model for what we can expect?
Perhaps oops...Interesting times to want to be wandering
Fred
Nov 18, 2015, 8:43 am
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I've been looking through the new AA earning tables - In premium cabins the EQM earn will the same as the current EQP earn (1.5 per mile), except that the earn in D class on Malaysian is increased from 1.25 to 1.5 and the earn on S7 is decreased from 1.5 to 1.0
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Take for example this DONE3 - NRT-HKG-MLE-HKG-JFK-SJU-DFW-ANC-DFW-BOS-LAX-DOH-MAD-DOH-LHR-SIN-NRT . Using AA's former EQP calculation you'd end up with 82,267 EQP, still more than 17K EQP short of the 100K needed for Executive Platinum.
But using the new metric of 1.5 EQM for non-AA flights and 2.0 EQM for AA metal and codeshares (assuming LAX-DOH carries an AA number) the same route earns over 102,000 EQM, enough for EXP with room to spare.
This is still speculative of course - there may well be some sort of cap or limit that I'm not aware of, but at least on the surface this sounds possible.
Such as that.
Nov 18, 2015, 6:40 pm
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Just finished reading the full AA board thread. Unsurprisingly it doesn't discuss how on earth revenue based (AA) RDMs will be calculated on an xONEx product when it all switches to being based on amount paid. This forum is where most xONEx discussion happens so perhaps this is the right thread for anyone with thoughts to comment? Anyone know how Star Alliance RTW products credit to UA as I guess that's a model for what we can expect?
In part it said:
Earning award miles for travel on flights marketed by partner airlines will be based on a percentage of the flight distance and the fare class purchased. We'll have more information about earning on partner airlines in 2016.
Nov 19, 2015, 7:42 am
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I will now close this thread; refer to the American board for further discussion.
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