earn AS miles on AA international itinerary with connection
Oct 31, 2018, 1:58 pm
#31
Join Date: Nov 2006
Programs: AA MM PP, MR LT Plat, Globalist
Posts: 998
Let me summarize - for an int'l AA itinerary with a domestic AA leg, you can:
1. Enter your AS FFN when booking the ticket. Fly the itinerary and afterwards manually request AA to credit domestic segments.
- Downside: no elite benefits when flying AA.
2. Enter your AS FFN when booking the ticket. At airport, request domestic AA segment be credited to AA.
- Downside: risk to not crediting to AS. Possibly miss out on AA elite upgrade.
3. Enter your AA FFN when booking the ticket. At airport, request int'l AA segment be credited to AS. If this works properly, it seems easiest.
- Downside: Biggest risk to not crediting to AS.
What's the consensus on best practice?
1. Enter your AS FFN when booking the ticket. Fly the itinerary and afterwards manually request AA to credit domestic segments.
- Downside: no elite benefits when flying AA.
2. Enter your AS FFN when booking the ticket. At airport, request domestic AA segment be credited to AA.
- Downside: risk to not crediting to AS. Possibly miss out on AA elite upgrade.
3. Enter your AA FFN when booking the ticket. At airport, request int'l AA segment be credited to AS. If this works properly, it seems easiest.
- Downside: Biggest risk to not crediting to AS.
What's the consensus on best practice?
Oct 31, 2018, 4:31 pm
#32
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: SEA, but up and down the coast a lot
Programs: Oceanic Airlines Gold Elite
Posts: 20,376
Let me summarize - for an int'l AA itinerary with a domestic AA leg, you can:
1. Enter your AS FFN when booking the ticket. Fly the itinerary and afterwards manually request AA to credit domestic segments.
- Downside: no elite benefits when flying AA.
2. Enter your AS FFN when booking the ticket. At airport, request domestic AA segment be credited to AA.
- Downside: risk to not crediting to AS. Possibly miss out on AA elite upgrade.
3. Enter your AA FFN when booking the ticket. At airport, request int'l AA segment be credited to AS. If this works properly, it seems easiest.
- Downside: Biggest risk to not crediting to AS.
What's the consensus on best practice?
1. Enter your AS FFN when booking the ticket. Fly the itinerary and afterwards manually request AA to credit domestic segments.
- Downside: no elite benefits when flying AA.
2. Enter your AS FFN when booking the ticket. At airport, request domestic AA segment be credited to AA.
- Downside: risk to not crediting to AS. Possibly miss out on AA elite upgrade.
3. Enter your AA FFN when booking the ticket. At airport, request int'l AA segment be credited to AS. If this works properly, it seems easiest.
- Downside: Biggest risk to not crediting to AS.
What's the consensus on best practice?
https://www.aa.com/i18n/aadvantage-p...conditions.jsp
You cannot accrue partner airline miles with your partner frequent flyer number if you have already used your AAdvantage number to obtain AAdvantage program benefits such as First or Business Class upgrades, baggage fee waivers or complimentary access to Preferred/Main Cabin Extra seats.
4. Enter NO program number. Send boarding passes for AA domestic segment to AA, AA international segment to AS.
Downside: same as 1.
Granted, this is FT, where people would run over their grandma for a chance at Krug and showers in a plane
so the risk of 3 getting you in trouble is probably pretty low unless you make a serious habit of this.
