Originally Posted by ja_user
One last question on this. If the flight outgoing shows up as a mci-ord-iad but the one back says iad-mci but actually does make a stop, will I get the bonus. I guess this is just a stopover? The boarding pass would say ORD in returning?
No, you won't. You need to have 2 flights, on the same ticket, which taken together would constitute a round-trip. That means you need the flight numbers which will be recognized by AA's system.
An IAD-MCI with change-of-equipment in ORD is not the same as IAD-ORD-MCI.