Originally Posted by
Gardyloo
Flights on AA metal can earn additional EQMs per flown mile in premium cabins, a benefit which on first glance does not extend to partners.
I've been looking through the new AA earning tables -
https://www.aa.com/i18n/AAdvantage/e...lines/main.jsp
The new EQM earning rates for booking classes A/D/L from 1 January 2016 are:
- In premium cabins the EQM earn will the same as the current EQP earn (1.5 per mile), except that the earn in D class on Malaysian is increased from 1.25 to 1.5 and the earn on S7 is decreased from 1.5 to 1.0
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- In Economy, booking class L, the new EQM earn is generally half the current EQP earn (down from 1.0 per mile to 0.5); the exceptions are those airlines that already gave less than 1.0 - their earn rates appear unchanged. Also the earn on BA will be further halved from 1 Feb 2016 (so down from 0.5 to 0.125)
It looks like the redeemable miles earned are unchanged for now, including class of service bonuses. We’ll have to wait and see what happens when the change to revenue based earn comes in later in 2016.