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Old Nov 21, 2015 | 7:09 am
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Originally Posted by pandaperth
From the FAQs:
To my mind a "ticket" is based on the old paper tickets, and consists of four coupons.
When I purchase a Oneworld Explorer ticket, it usually has 16 flights and so consists of four tickets

So would the limit of 75,000 award miles be for each ticket, or for all four tickets - in other words the limit would apply to my entire RTW journey?
The short quess? Whatever works best for AA.
The speculation? Somebody forgot about OW tickets.

My guess? A single OW ticket (ie up to 16 segments - single PNR) can earn a maximum of 75K RDM. If the total traveled is 50K miles and 23K of that is on AA, the most you'll get in the AA program is (23/50 ) * 75K or 34500 points.

Best case? 75K to AA from a single PNR. What other airline programs?
Worst case? Do you remember the "other" OW mileage based ticket?

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