Originally Posted by
ryan182
You might get better answers for this situation from the BA forum as it seems you're posting the flights to BA and not AA. The folks over there would probably know better how BA would handle this situation given how your flights post to execclcub is governed by BA not AA. Since crossposting isn't allowed might want to ask a mod to move this to that forum?
Agreed, if he was getting AA miles, he could ask AA for Original Routing Credit. For Avios, BA is going to care about the booking class of the ticket at the time of the flight.