Originally Posted by
pauleeepaul
You will likely get EQPs at 1.5. That doesn't help you if you are qualifying on miles instead of points as your post appears to suggest. After your flight posts you could call and ask for mileage credit based on the original routing- that seems to have a relatively high degree of success from other reports here. Your status qualification situation might help.
Re: boarding- it seems AA is getting tougher on this.
Qualifying on miles not points. Assuming I get no bonus EQM out of this trip, my booked travel through end of year will put me at 93,545. I'll either be making one more work trip to the east coast or doing an MR to make up the difference. My original return routing would have given me 287 EQM more. I also lost a leg on my trip to DCA when weather delayed a departure for ORD causing me to cut out a leg so as not to be stuck in Chicago. Had this past trip gone as expected, I would have been at 94,685.