Originally Posted by
murtuza
I recently had flown on AA metal from SJC-ORD-PHL, with one of the segment upgraded. Although I gave the Alaska Air MP number at the check-in desk the flights got credited to AA. On calling AAdvantage desk, they are not willing to credit those to Alaska Air saying that since I took benefit of upgrade and other AAdvantage perk, I cannot credit this to Alaska.Is this true? Wanted to know your thoughts on this?
Technically, they are probably correct. AA benefits should require crediting to AA. This can be overridden at the gate where the AA benefit applies and the flight credits to AS, but this would appear to be against the letter of the rules. Cool if it works, but little recourse if not. Probably very hard to get it done after-the-fact since they seem to be correct.
Originally Posted by
jake108
Apologies, can't help with question but will throw this out: have some AS flights coming up, likely to use MVP Gold upgrade, want to credit to AA.
Will I have same problems? Many thanks!
We've done something similar - used AS miles to upgrade and then credited to AA. If done at check-in it works just fine. In fact, one time we changed it over the phone a few weeks after applying the upgrade. At the time of the upgrade we were told that we needed to keep our AS numbers in there. So we did...for a while.
Cheers.