OK folks. After 22 years, I'm considering making a change from UA to either DL or AA. BOS has evolved and UA is no longer a dominant carrier. While I love the *A, I hate that I have to connect pretty much everywhere else on UA when flying Domestic.
Delta has now made BOS a hub, and is consistently ranked #1 in the USA for carriers. Lots of direct flights, and a great product, but terrible FF program. I was totally leaning towards DL because of this, but have since changed and am now looking at AA.
I hadn't really considered AA until now because I haven't been happy with what Parker has done with the airline. Project Oasis. No seatback IFE. etc. But...my thinking has evolved over the last few weeks. AA is a decent carrier at BOS. But their relationship with JetBlue is pretty compelling. JetBlue is #1 carrier in BOS. Combined with AA it makes it a pretty compelling choice. A tremendous amount of direct flights everyone. Only downside is not as good internationally as UA.
My question is around how to earn the new Loyalty Points. I get it on AA. As a general member I get 5x the fare plus credit card spend. But I am less clear on how this works for partners. Can you help clarify? Specifically:
-Flights on Jetblue. It seems I get same Loyalty points accrual as on AA, regardless of whether or not hte flight is marketed with a Jetblue flight # and ticket or AA flight # and ticket. Correct?
-Flights on BA: It seems like if it is booked as AA flight # I get AA accrual based on fare. But if booked as BA flight # I get the distance with fare class multiplier. Correct?
-Flights on Alaska: Same as BA. Correct?
On UA, the ticket stock matters more than what flight # a flight is booked on. But as I'm reading about AA, it seems this is irrelevant and how the flight is booked is what matters. Correct?
Thanks for the advice!
Last edited by ualboston1k; Mar 2, 2022 at 9:19 am