Originally Posted by
JDiver
Four segments, no problem at all. You will make Gold (and earn the 25% status bonus miles) on the actual segment you use to cross the Gold threshold.
Not this time, but what you have to watch for is when you buy a flight with a stop - even if it involves a "change of gauge" (aircraft change) and it has the same flight number. E.g. AA 0048 (iirc, no longer exists) SFO-DFW-ZRH - counts as if it were nonstop SFO-ZRH.
And it gets confusing because sometimes AA may use the same flight number outbound and return - but these have not had problems posting separately, from reports here.
Still have AA 289 BOS-PVG, stopover in ORD and change from 738 to 772. Similar for 288 on reverse, and 153/154 BOS-NRT and reverse with an ORD stopover and change from 738 to 772
. BOS and MIA seem to get most of the international aircraft change continuing same flight numbers on AA from what I've seen.
Originally Posted by
CaptRobPhD
Segment universally = one takeoff and one landing. So far, no 1/2 segments logged
Not under AAdvantage segment counting unfortunately. If I took my aforementioned AA 289 BOS-ORD, then the same flight number ORD-PVG, it counts as one segment as far as AAdvantage is concerned, despite two takeoffs and two landings. It also only awards mileage credit BOS-PVG as though it were nonstop, not BOS-ORD-PVG. I've yet to log any partial flight segments in your definition though either fortunately
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