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Old Jan 6, 2017, 7:20 am
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Originally Posted by Col Ronson
if you book a ticket thru BA you will earn miles based on distance flown times whatever multiplier the BA fare class is. (if it's coach, it'll be less than 1mile/flown) AA will not have access to BA fare data. EQDs will be based off that percentage multiplier times miles flown.
That's what I assumed, but I wanted to be certain. It struck me as odd that we earn EQDs by a mileage percentage on the AA metal flights because AA should know what they are being paid for the segments on their metal.

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