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Nov 28, 2011 | 7:20 pm

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Alex_I

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Originally Posted by evanderm

I will let you know what happens for me. I bought the upgrade offer for my last AA flight. It changed the booking class on my boarding pass to C, which on the BA website carries the footnote...
Which makes me think that I'll only get the TPs and Avios I would have gotten had I flown in my originally booked class of service. (source)

- While I am not an expert on the subject of the BA ExecClub, I can comment on AA operation: AA would only credit AAdvantage account for the originally paid fare. Because you were flying AA, C fare stands for SWU, Award, and some Passenger Sales ('kiosk') Upgrades from Economy to Business. Nowadays AA is very good in tracking your original purchased fare even after multiple changes, re-routing, etc. Thus, I would assume this would propagate in crediting AA flight to BA.

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