Originally Posted by
guv1976
The RTW Business Class itinerary booked by
felix1224 would easily earn OWS status if credited to Iberia Plus, but would fall well short of OWE. (Iberia Plus does not require any flights on IB to earn status.) If he even wants status, it's not clear whether the incremental benefit from OWS to OWE would be worth much to him. But if he credits to either IB or QR, he's stuck with Avios -- and their carrier surcharges on many routes.
I have not done the calculations, but it would be interesting to see how many AAdvantage Loyalty Points he would earn just from the non-AA-coded/non-BA-coded segments on his RTW itinerary, on the off-chance that the AA- and BA-coded segments would post based on fare and not distance. I'm pretty sure that he would end up with AAdvantage Gold (40,000 LPs) by the end of the trip, but would fall short of AAdvantage Platinum (75,000 LPs).
There are a couple of Canadian credit cards which earn points that can be converted to AAdvantage miles, but I don't know whether such conversions generate any LPs.
I wouldn't even risk it with AAdvantage on this with so much of the bulk of it on AA codes. AS, QR, and IB look much better and good to know no segments required on IB anymore, I couldn't find that info. OW Ruby carries nearly no benefit, so unless they could get to AA Platinum I don't think that would be beneficial despite AAdvantage miles having pretty attractive redemptions in certain regions. They're still likely to get tagged with 5x earnings on the small amount of revenue on the AA and BA segments. The entire base fare of this was only about US$2,500 plus maybe $1000-1500 in YQ, so whatever revenue of that is assigned to the BA and AA segments isn't very many LPs or RDMs on a 5x multiplier.