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I have an AONE4 ticket which includes confirmed PHX-ANC-PHX in Dec 2016 - ticket already issued. One of the principle reasons for including this return leg was to receive First Class 210 BA tier pts each way.
I now find that, from Aug 2016, AA have cancelled these particular non-stop flights and everything must go through Seattle, hence two flights each way earning only 60 x 2 pts each way.
Does anyone know of non-stop flights on oneworld within the US over 2,000 miles to/from Anchorage, please?
As I understand it, Alaska Airlines can't be included on a RTW even with an AA code share. Correct?
There will be a seasonal AA service to ANC from LAX and there is one from DFW. However, they only run in the summer.
The flight mere needs to be direct, not nonstop, to qualify for the 210 BA tier points. (and the length is calculated based on the origin and destination, not the route.)
You may be entitled to original routing credit from BAEC, but BAEC are very reluctant to do this unless the ticket was issued on BA paper.
The usual rules do not allow AS, but if you are are the sixteen sector limit that may be preferred as electronic support for more than sixteen sectors is very limited (I don't think BA can do it, for instance).