<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Dave Noble:
It may well vary from BA scheme to scheme. It is unsurprising that AA staff do not know, why would they, it isnt their scheme. The handbook for the European scheme lists AA valid economy classes for miles as Y,B,H,K,L and for tier credits Y,B,H,K . I would expect that the US scheme is the same, but have no idea for the UK scheme. A K fare looks quite promising
Dave</font>
From personal experience I can tell you that "L" Class fares on AA WILL NOT earn frequent flyer mileage in the North American BA Executive Club. These fares are now "web only" fares booked on aa.com or one of the other on-line engines such as expedia.com or orbitz.com
We booked travel for three from LGA to FLL (LaGuardia, New York to Fort Lauderdale, Florida) directly from aa.com and later found out, much to our chagrin, that the 'web fare' booking class was "L" which would not accrue miles in our BA accounts.
Nowadays we always check and re-check our fare classes before we book anything on AA so that we can receive our mileage on British Airways.
"zoosh"