Originally Posted by
anteater
If you're looking to leverage the OW S/E benefit of lounge access to an AS Lounge, then it should be on your ticket. If a pax is temporarily substituting their intended FFP # for their non AS/AA OW account in order the gain lounge access, they are then leveraging the benefits of the original FFP as well as the second FFP. You can believe or call this whatever you would like, but it doesn't change what it is.
As for your hypothetical 'book an award ticket': no. Booking an award ticket and using any other FFP # has nothing to do with double dipping and is frankly an absurd follow-up question to counter the original topic. Perhaps familiarize yourself with the T&Cs of the relevant programs so you have less trouble in the future discerning what is and isn't policy.
Cheers! 🤙🏻🍹
You realize real airlines with proper IT have FQTV and FQTS/FQTR fields for this reason, right? You can designate programs where the miles are going, and other programs where the benefits are coming from. Just because Alaska has shoddy IT doesn't make their policy sensible at all.
And it is absolutely an IT limitation. If you check in to a real oneworld carrier's lounge, they can just look up your other program's FFP number and admit you. It happens routinely at AA. Most AS agents don't even know what a oneworld carrier is.
Cheers.