Originally Posted by
hfly
I would not concur with Efrem's assessment as IMHO when it is an involuntary reroute situation I have never heard of any airline denying the request of issuing the original mileage, nor do they say its a one time thing...
Please see several threads in the AA forum documenting this, citing the specific verbiage AA uses, and discussing why they do. If that is not enough to convince you, I may have saved copies of communications I have personally received with this statement. It did
not come out of my imagination.