Originally Posted by sickmint79

i used AA's chat (first time) and the agent said the R class i saw under my PNR for BA was the same for AA, although the agent in general said some weird things. trying to get a fare class initially they just said "business" - they also said business was the highest class of service, and it was above first... and that if i wanted to upgrade a BA flight i'd have to call BA. this was all quite confusing given that i linked them this same page.

in any case, is it possible to get the fare class for AA w/o calling them? i don't see it when i go to manage my booking, and it was not shown on my (amex portal purchase) receipt.

it would seem per question 3 that i need the opposite situation with a BA PNR with an AA operated flight on it somewhere, which would then allow AA to see it with an AA PNR, which would then allow me to use AA miles to upgrade all flights. interesting. thanks for the info!