Originally Posted by
prashok
I called AAdvantage and they said they would not give me original routing credit due to my reroute, but that I could call to make a request in February that I qualify for EXP due to involuntary weather routing on my qualifying flight. She made it a point to mention that nothing was guaranteed, of course.
I think the agent you spoke with may have been mistaken. I have had original routing credit due to weather reroutes on quite a few occasions.
One in particular, I had decided to fly out of EWR instead of JFK because NY was expecting storms later in the day. Well, later I couldn't figure out why I was a few miles short of my requal (it was a very tight requal). Well I figured out EWR is 19 miles closer to DFW than JFK is. Well, I wrote AA and they credited me for my original routing.
I believe, however, they only do this for weather or other invol reroutes, not voluntary reroutes.