Originally Posted by
slhu82
I am thinking to credit to either AS or AA. If I credit to AS, I can hit MVP50K with around 80k - 100k miles. It is a bit hard to calculate LP I can get for AA since I have 5 segments operated by AA.
Thanks for pointing out I can not do DOH -> PEK. This segment will happen in late 2025. I will see if MLE -> xKUL -> PEK is still available after my date change.
How was you experience for date change for AA? I assume it is unlimited and free of charge?
I saw news today JAL is starting to fly A350-1000 for HND -> DFW every other days from April, but JAL has not released winter schedule yet. I will need to watch out winter schedule closely and check if my first leg will be on A351. Do you know if changing first leg date will also trigger reprice? It will be very existing to try out new product.
HND-DFW should be daily on the A351 well before the time you fly, I think they'll even have LHR running by that time. But just a date / time change to get the A351 if it's not daily yet "shouldn't" be any issue.
Yes, date changes should be unlimited and free of charge, but your change from MLE-xCMB-PEK to MLE-xKUL-PEK isn't only a date change, that's changes to ticketed points and requires a $125 fee. Any other changes to ticketed points should be done at the same time.
If you credit to AA, when I do calculations, I just omit the AA segments entirely and count them as bonus. They'll most likely credit as revenue and be pretty crappy, so you can't rely on them to provide much in terms of LPs. Do you have any AA status already? If starting from zero status, it looks like you'd get somewhere around 75k LPs and miles on that itinerary as is currently, you'd hit Gold roughly around the time of the LAX-DOH flight and Platinum at 75k. Making that change I suggested to MLE-KUL-PEK adds almost 5k LPs and RDMs onto it after status bonus, pretty much guaranteeing you'd hit AA Platinum even with the pittance of a credit you're likely to get from the AA coded segments. (Edit Ignore those, that would assume your entire trip is in one elite year, but it crosses the threshold, resetting in March)
Having said that, if you can get AS 75K then that's OW Emerald, it's really going to depend on what their award chart looks like after the updates.
Just for comparison, you could also get Qatar Gold and about ~84,000 Avios. If crediting to QR you'd be at 472 QPoints, so if you have other premium cabin trips planned it'd be pretty easy to get to 600 for Platinum and OW Emerald. The only reason I mention that is you'd have domestic US lounge access but no free domestic upgrades but you'd still get AA MCE seats free (but not AS Premium Class). It's also worth note because something I hadn't thought about, starting your ticket in January means you'd be crossing the annual cutoff for AA, since the elite year is March to February. I believe AS is January to December, so you're ok there. QR is within 12 months from your first flight.