Originally Posted by
LilZeppelin
Your calculation is correct: The ticket will give you 524 Qpoints, of which 118 earned and operated by QR (76qpoints short of Platinum, in addition 2 Qpoints short of QR marketed and operated flights).
Booking as AA codeshare gives more Qpoints, but in addition to not meeting the condition to have 20% of QR-marketed and operated flights, one also cannot easily assign Qsuites as the middle aisle ones are blocked for QR-marketed bookings in my experience.
QR's requirement is 20% or 4 segments (either / or), which as I understand it, they have 5 QR marketed segments.
So really they just need to find another 76 Qpoints from any source on a separate ticket(s) if they want Platinum
The 20% clause is really only useful if someone were doing something like only 2x really long haul QR segments on a RTW, like LAX-DOH-AKL as an example. That'd cover your 20% as you need 120 and that gives 186.