Originally Posted by
sdsearch
Dependable loopholes may have closed, but mistakes still happen. Last year I had an award flight in business on AA to Europe with a transcon connection in PHL, and the day of the flight my transcon connection was so delayed so much that I would have missed the connection to my flight to Europe. I called up AA and they rebooked me on BA the whole way. Well, some time after returning from the trip I looked at my AA account and noticed they'd credited me as if I paid for that BA flight in business, I guess because of the way that it was re-booked by the AA agent.
Yup - I've had this several times, including once recently for four of us. We were already on BA, using AA miles (yes, with the fuel surcharges) and weather caused problems. AA rebooked it all, and we all got miles as if we paid for BA biz.