Originally Posted by
swingaling
No, he's fine. Where you book makes no difference. The marketing carrier is the only relevant issue. His longer segments are CX marketed, so he'll earn EQDs based on distance. Excluding ORD-LAX on AA, of course.
I will bet you $1 that that he will receive fare based EQD. It's happened to me twice that I've been awarded fare based EQD on partner carrier marketed flights when AA knows the fare that I paid. Hopefully for him I'm wrong and it just seems that this whole fare/distance-based EQD is a real crapshoot unless you are sure the ticket is issued by a separate carrier. When I buy BA or QF tickets with AA segments the purchase price shows up in my AA itineraries.