Originally Posted by
henry999
Just out of curiosity, what would you suggest in place of the OP's ...-DOH-LAX-ANC-lax-JFK-...? I note from his mini-bio that the OP is in the BAEC. So am I. A couple of years ago we were booked on ...-LAX-ANC-ORD-... which would have garnered 280 BA tier points. We were involuntarily re-routed to LAX-sea-ANC-sea-ORD, which yielded only 160. Fortunately, the lost 120 TPs weren't crucial to our Gold re-qualification -- but they might have been.
My ANC segment is partly mileage run but also largely because I love Alaska.
Am curious as to how you would have gotten 280 from an ANC-LAX-ORD - from a business class perspective that would have earned 140 tp for the ANC-LAX and 40 tp for the LAX-ORD which is below the magical 2000 mile distance? I do remember something a few years back when if you were booked on a DONE* that if you were flying in the US on AA and it was a 2 class service that you could then book A class - so not sure if you were maybe calculating based on being awarded the tps based on First class earning?
With AS joining you now really have 3 over 2000 mile options between AA and AS that operate year round: LAX/PHX/DFW