<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by azmmza:
if you flew san jfk lah on one ticket you are an international pax for the san jfk flight too.</font>
That's the whole point... if flying same day/same ticket international makes you an international passenger, then shouldn't flying same day/same ticket nonstop transcon make you a transcon passenger? The fact is, a lot of cities that have ACs do not have nonstop international service, yet they do allow AC access if you are connecting to an international flight... why wouldn't the same be true connecting to a transcon?
Edited to add... Obviously this is not actually the case, but from a "simplification" standpoint, it would certainly make more sense.
As to the oneworld rule vs AA rule issue, AA admitted international passengers to the AC long before they founded oneworld... back then, it was just AA policy.
[This message has been edited by T/BE20/G (edited 09-05-2003).]