Originally Posted by
Dr. HFH
AA's only requirement is that either a TPAC or TATL flight (or both, of course) be AA marketed, i.e., have an AA flight number. Codeshares count.
I believe this is actually intercontinental, not specifically TPAC or TATL. There were a few examples of people in the 2024 fire sale ex-CAI that got AA to ticket with AA codes on US-South America, where mostly only AA codes are available (except GRU and GIG). Leaving the TPAC and TATL segments ripe for the picking of JL (TPAC) and QR or AY codes (TATL). The fun thing was on the old ex-CAI fares, the incremental difference between DONE3, DONE4, and DONE5 was negligible so you could add South America to check off AA's box to have an intercontinental segment for a couple of hundred dollars.
Originally Posted by
aaupgrade
One AA segment is just fine even if you aren't EXP. I just changed IAD-DOH from AA codeshare to QR flight which I need for QRPC 4 segment qualification requirement. I only have 1 AA transoceanic codeshare, SYD-LAX AA codeshare on QF.
One AA intercontinental segment has always been fine. It doesn't need to be both. So your example has an AA code on SYD-LAX, despite being QF metal is perfectly fine, though that's a REALLY long segment so people crediting to AAdvantage would be at a serious disadvantage on it, however in QRPC, AA codes actually credit better than their own QR codes, so works well for you.