Originally Posted by
Dr. HFH
There are a number of airlines that treat their ownmembers differently from the way that they treat those who are omembers of other alliance partners. For example, AA allows admittance into Admirals Clubs to elite status members of other programs, but not to AAdvantage elite members. It's not uncommon.
It has been changing. Used to be I could book using Avios and put in my AA ff# and receive my OWE AA benefits but now many OW airlines won’t let you change numbers. Yesterday I booked a QR flight using AA miles and QR inserted my privilege club # in the res after I logged in to select seats.
it has not been like this when alliances were created. A few exceptions were the case but collectively they are making being a OWE/S less valuable if you don’t book and fly exclusively where you have status.