Originally Posted by
justageek
You don't need to transfer the miles to AA. Just call Cathay and give them your AAdvantage number and your reservation number. Tell them you want AAdvantage miles for the flight (you cannot get both AAdvantage miles and Asia Miles for the same trip, of course). Then when you take the trip, the miles will go directly to your AAdvantage account.
Just to make sure I got this correct, if say hypothetically I purchase a CX ticket which isn't able to accrue EQM's (such as L or K miles), would I still be able to earn AA miles?
I did this hypothetical booking on CX and got the following:
"Asia Miles/Total/AAdvantage"
19,728 /19,728/No