Originally Posted by
formeraa
Sure. You are using Alaska mileage for the award. Technically, your status on that AA flight is based on your Alaska status (since you used Alaska miles), not on your AA status. That's why you had so many problems, but finally found an agent who just changed it for you (despite it being against the rules).
Originally Posted by
pkerr
That's pretty much what I did and got three "no can do" until my 4th one.
Originally Posted by
econ
What AA rule? I'm aware of Alaska's (draconian) rule preventing the use of other FFP (e.g. AA) when using AS miles for their own flights, but nothing they can do to prevent AA FFN being used when AS miles are used to book on a partner carrier.
The post by "formerAA" is correct. Think of it this way. Anytime you book a flight, you can only apply one frequent flyer number to accrue miles. So when you are redeeming AS miles, it is coming from your AS FF account. Your benefits on AA would not apply. This was explained to me by an AS agent as "double dipping". The AA agent was nice enough to change it, but this is not allowed.
Generally speaking, you can't use one miles from one airline's frequent flyer program and apply status benefits from another airline. This is basically mashing up two programs into one.