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Apr 20, 2011 | 9:39 am

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Originally Posted by smkeyes

I was supposed to fly a two-leg trip from MKE-ORD-DCA last night on AA. Unfortunately, the bad weather cancelled my MKE-ORD flight and so they booked me onto a Frontier flight instead.

I'm shooting to get elite status with AA and originally paid ~$100 extra for this flight as opposed to a cheaper one with Frontier. My question is whether there's any recourse to get EQM/EQS from AA for this, or if I'm just out of luck?

Thanks!

As for the original routing credit as another person mentioned from the aadvantage desk.

In addition, you can usually get miles (Y) @ 1.5 the rate for the airlines you are bumped to because the new tickets are usually booked as full fare.

My last trip I was bumped from AA to United and got 2.5x the miles I would have normally got split between the two.

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