Originally Posted by
Eujeanie
Reading the fare rules it is being treated like as AS flight (even though it is AA metal) and has the wording of "no change fees for MVP Golds"...but I'm wondering, since we'd prefer to put our AA numbers on the res (since we do still collect AA miles and this puts us into the "need 5,000 more" if we credit the miles to AS), what are the fare rules if we have our AA number on the res?
I have both an AS and an AA confirmation number (Gold in both programs), and was able to get seats through the AA website (Elite seats for free, opted to not get premium for a cost).
If you know you will qualify on AS only flights, crediting the AA flight will not put you in the 'need 5,000 more' category. You only need that 'extra 5k' or whatever if you don't have enough AS/QX/VX only miles to reach the tier.
For example, you earn 40k with AS only. That's all you need for Gold. Crediting an AA flight for 1,000 to make your total 41k (40k AS, 1k AA) doesn't change that - you have still reached Gold with 40k AS. It doesn't mean that you now need to reach 50k because of that one AA flight. As long as you reach a tier, however you do it, you are fine.
Now if you only had 38k on AS and the rest on AA, you would need that extra 10k as you didn't reach 40k on AS alone so you would need 50k mixing AS and partners.
If you knew that and I am being redundant, my apologies. But it sounded like you thought that crediting any partner miles automatically puts you in the higher 'partner' miles requirement.