<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by ender83:
You're kidding yourself if you don't think that AA has some say in this. They had to allow this to effect their program mid-year. Even if they just rolled over for BA, AA still has complicity in it.</font>
Think through the economics of the situation for a moment.
You bought the tickets to fly on BA metal. What does AA get out of it? No revenue from the ticket itself.
Because of oneWorld, BA decides to allow AAdvantage members to earn AA miles on BA metal flights. For every AA mile BA gives you, BA has to buy them from AA.
The best possible scenario for AA is for BA to give you as many miles as possible, because AA makes money selling miles to partners. So the move to reduce the earning potential of AAdvantage members on BA flights is not good for AA at all.
Since the change doesn't benefit AA at all, why is AA assigned blame? Put it where it belongs, on BA for changing things mid-stream. Mileage earning on BA flights is something determined
exclusively by BA. It's not done in consultation with AA.