Originally Posted by brosnan6
Funny thing was that it was a mileage ticket booked through one of my credit card points programs. The company Chase uses for mileage redemption bought the ticket on AA but AS thought it was a paid reservation because on my boarding pass it printed out the cost of the ticket, $286 something. I guess when the reservation gets "transferred" in a sense to AS the mileage redemption gets lost in translation and it ends up being some normal fare class (I forget which one). I even ended up EARNING AS miles on the travel
You apparently have miles and points confused.
When you use one of those "fake miles" credit card point programs to get the ticket through the credit card company, it has NOTHING to do with the airline's miles program. It's the same as if you had cashback, EXCEPT that you're limited to buying airline tickets through the credit card program. They simply buy a ticket for you. AS doesn't know there were any points involved; they simply look at your credit card company as yet another travel agency. The fact that you booked the flight with points is entirely between your credit card company and you. (This is completely different from TRANSFERRING points to miles, in which case you call the airline and use the miles to book the flight, and the credit card company is done with the points as soon as they're transferred to miles, and is not at all involved in booking the flight.)
The only relationship to miles is that in SOME cases on SOME airlines (don't know if this could ever happen on a domestic flight; it's much more likely on a transoceanisc flight), they might buy you a ticket which didn't qualify for earning miles. (But since they don't expect you to care, they probably wouldn't tell you. You'd have to know your booking code and compare that to the booking code rules that airline publishes.)