Originally Posted by
Dr. HFH
Seems to me that whether or not it's an evil depends a lot on the program to which you're crediting your miles. I'm AA PLT, but just booked a DONE3 with the AA RTW desk and am crediting the entire trip to QRPC. In fact, the AA desk doesn't even know that I'm an AAdvantage member.
Same here, but BAEC in my case.
Also having booked AONEn tickets and often flying routes that have no AA metal on ex-USA routes (HKG-SFO, SFO-LHR, IAD-LHR) pre-covid. Now with AA metal not having F, it's less of an issue AND sometimes the routes have no AA codeshare A availability whereas the operating carrier does, so on several occasions I have been booked on the operating carrier's flight number; but this is usually not the case with BA metal flights... so I lose out from a BAEC standpoint as AA flights earn a lot more Avios IF earned using the mileage calculation method than QF or CX flights.