Originally Posted by mikesinla

I (Plat member) will be traveling with a former elite who still has 500 mile upgrades in the advantage acct. I plan to list for the upgrade and request companion.
Question: If we clear, can the upgrades be pulled from the former elite acct and not mine? Does american see them as active or dormant until the former requalifies. (clarification- I would use my acct sements for my upgrade and they would use the upgrades from their acct, not trying to get a former elite to pay for me, although I like the idea @:-)
I know when I was exp and I traveled with Plat members, using the exp status to help us clear, the airport agents were always pulling the upgraded companion segments from my acct and I had to call the exp desk to get it right after seeing the drainage (even after I reqested the segments come from the other elite) .
On a few occasions at ato check in it took a more experienced agent (to walk over) to process from the split accounts as I guess the computer is set up to pull from whoever is the top flyer and it takes an override for custom requests.
Thanks.

Originally Posted by dstan

While elites traveling together are able to get stickers pulled from their accounts separately (by removing the ADC code), non-elites are, indeed, only allowed to use stickers on their own Y/B fares. This is reported by c_stanley upthread and I've been told that this is a firm policy, with AAgents making exceptions subject to audit.