<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by T/BE20/G:
[B[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.[/B]</font>
Yes, but even then it was 2 different rules.
One rule for domestic travel, another for internationational travel. Your continued belief that what's true for one should apply to the other is the problem.
For example, the rules of evidence are a lot looser which is why O.J. was easily convicted in the civil trial even though he was acquitted in a criminal trial. Does that mean that civil and criminal court should have the same rules, or is it just bad extrapolation to insist that all rules are the same just because one institution, whether it's AA or the state of California, issued them.