"The
only way to fly," to quote Wally Bird, if we are concerned with earning AA miles, is to be sure to look up the far class and earnings we are thinking about before we purchase the ticket, or pay the price later. Too often, we read here where a member has not earned miles after flying AA overseas (e.g. O international,) CX (most coach fares,) flying some obscure unpublished discount consolidator or group fare, or earned a percentage of what they expected (e.g. a 25% miles earning fare, also earning only 0.5 points per mile awarded.)
The links on aa.com to all AA airline partners is
here.
Flying
oneworld partners on their tickets marked with the following fare clases can earn, in coach
(but this is not all-encompassing! as andrzej pints out below,) anywhere from
AA:
0 miles (Tickets between North America and Europe, India, Asia and Latin America booked in O and Transatlantic tickets booked in Q are not eligible for mileage credit.)
EI:
0 miles (any fare code other than Y, H or K US - Ireland; Y, H or B Ireland - UK except LHR; Y, K, H, B Ireland - Europe, including LHR; Y and H intra-Ireland. They make it easy, eh? But EI has gone the LCC route in most areas it serves.)
BA:
0 miles (all ConUS - LON) or
25% of miles flown (K, L, M, N, O, R, G, Q, S or V)
CX:
0 miles (
all coach fare classes other than B, Y and H)
AY: C, D, I, J, Y, B, A (discount economy class on AY!,) H, K, M, V, G, L, N, S, Q, O, T or W all earn 100% ^
IB:
30% of miles flown (B, H, K, M, Q, V, G, L, N, O and S)
LA: B, Y, H, K, L, M, V, W, G, N, O, Q and S earn 100% ^
QF: 50% (M, V, L, R, G, O and S)
Sometimes we can even get unpublished fare codes on the above-mentioned airlines - I have flown on at least a couple,
zero miles on LA flying SCL-PMC-PUQ-USH -
an international flight - and return. I needed to fly those for particular reasons, but it certainly wasn't for the miles.