Originally Posted by
sickmint79
per
https://www.aa.com/i18n/aadvantage-p...r-airlines.jsp
and this sentence:
- Full-Fare Business with published fares booked in J, D or R on American and C, J, D or R on British Airways or Iberia
some questions ---
- if i have an AA marketed and BA operated flight, my understanding is the fare class AA shows is not necessarily the fare class BA shows. is that correct?
- if i have AA marketed and BA operated, i assume my upgrade with miles options is only via AA, is that correct? i wouldn't be able to upgrade with avios?
- does this mean if i have a BA marketed and BA operated flight, and it was in BA C/J/D/R, that i could call up AA to upgrade the BA flight with AA miles?
If it's AA marketed then the fare class that AA shows is what matters. Not sure if or why that would be different than what BA shows, unless it's just a generic nomenclature issue, like if you're in business and the airline shows "C" on your boarding pass irrespective of what fare basis you're actually booked under.
If your flight is AA marketed, BA operated then I think upgrading with AA miles is your only option, since AA issued the ticket, but I would defer to others or the BA forum to answer definitively.
In order to upgrade a BA flight with AA miles AA must have some visibility to the ticket. If you look down in the T&C's it says it is possible to upgrade a BA marketed BA operated flight with AA miles, however there must be at least one flight on the PNR with an AA flight number.