Originally Posted by
Eujeanie
These are all interesting points (not just this post, but the prior ones, too).
We are not "planning" on not keeping AS status, it just is not going to happen this year. But if I used AS miles to procure these tickets, how can I put our AA numbers onto the res? I'm not that worried about bags because if we drop from AS MVP, we still have the Alaska Visa credit card. Or will we? Actually our first flights out of EUG will be on AS, so will our AS Visa give us free checked bags all the way to LHR?
So it sounds like I might have the opportunity to get preferred seats, but not until check-in. Did not know this, thank you.
Seems like more questions keep cropping up the deeper I go.
The AA taxes are much less than other routes on BA (also using AS miles), I was just surprised they were minimal on the way over and hundreds on the way back
on the AA/AS change...you can just call customer service.
on my return flight, because of schedule changes I had to rebook flights. I was give AA credit to rebook. I called the customer service rep and got the best of both worlds....my reservation is an AA reservation ( I had miles due to expire..it’s small) and because of AS ststus I go better seats.
I plan on maintaining-status thru AS bookings to 20K.if I merge my AA flights I’d Thrn by going to 25K but with the low-fat class I book i might need to book 15K -20K actual milesflown to get the AS partner status.
outside of random booking, I have this trip return on AA, a work trip RT on AA , one way on AA booked using the credit I had, and possibly Xmas travel. Where I’d be going for Xmas I have directs on AA, UA, and WN under 750 real miles.