<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by ozstamps:
Qantas just hiked ENORMOUSLY the awards to USA from Jan 1, and you can logically expect AA will follow to this country as they use QF metal for the journey. </font>
As willyroo says, the QF award chart is staying constant- it's upgrade redemption and accrual (mileage, status credits and upgrade credits) that are changing, IIRC (I have a ton of QF points via Starwood transfers, so I only pay attention to the redemption side of things).
AA, however, just went to a standard award chart for _all_ partners on 1 August:
http://www.aa.com/content/AAdvantage...ne_chart.jhtml
I assume this chart will stay more or less the same for at least a little while (although they only gave one month's notice, which really ticked me off), as I assume AA had to renegotiate partner contracts before instituting the new charts.
While some awards went down in mileage cost with the new chart, QF awards to NZ and Eastern Australia went up to 145K for F and 125 for J (from 135K and 105K)
So, for now, CO and US have QF awards that are less that QF's oneworld partner AA- this ticks me off, too, but is probably only a temporary issue given impending skyteam and *A membership.