Originally Posted by
IADCAflyer
You're focusing on the -wrong- program. You should be asking AA what their terms and conditions are. After all, you're asking for mileage credit from American Airlines, not from a rental company. I'll save you the effort: Mileage will be credited only to the account of the AAdvantageŽ member who flies, rents a car, stays at a hotel, or earns mileage utilizing other participating companies. No mileage credit will be awarded for canceled flights and/or through being accommodated on another airline. Seems pretty cut and dry, doesn't it?
That there's fraud? Nope.
AA can surely reject the mileage request based on that language. They can also expire their miles if they only caught it afterward.
But I don't see any case to cry fraud.