Global321

+1 - There is a thrill sitting in first class, jetting over one of the ponds, on a 'free' ticket!

jfk747

United credits elite bonuses up to 100% bonus to certain partner tickets on non ua stock:will aa do likewise on its partners?

JDiver

What United does is immaterial.

AA elite status (and class of service) bonus schemes remain the same as they've always been for now for AA and partners: elite status bonus miles on those oneworld / airline partners that award them, regardless of which airline's ticket stock they are written on.

and


Check the charts for individual airlines on aa.com.

AAdvantage >> Earn miles >> Airlines >> Specific airline

E.g. you'll earn elite status bonus miles on BA / British Airways

but not on S7 / Sibir

Note: the 2015 American Airlines AAdvantage® bonus miles promotion has been extended through this year, until the new, revenue-based redeemable miles / RDM earning scheme is implemented.

JDiver

No EQM earning detail on the account page!

AA yet fails again. WHY this lack of transparency? Don't these penny pinchers understand that the more opacity they provide in their web pages and their account information, the more passengers will call and tie up valuable personnel resources on relatively trivial issues? (And of course, with the unequal knowledge of the poorly trained agents more passengers will get upset when they're given drivel over the phone.)

LINDEGR

or better stated, irrelevant

Superguy

How AA's done this annoys me as they give GMs the exact same bonus plats and golds get.

Fanjet

Why? It would seem that AA would want to incentivize this segment to buy a premium fare on AA (as opposed to a cheap coach one, or none at all) even more than a Gold or Plat. As they are most likely to freely "airline shop" for a premium fare. Whereas the Gold and Plat very much take their elite status into the purchase consideration. Moreover, when AA does the promotional bonuses (like the current one for TATL flying), everyone is getting the same bonus amount (relevant to the fare class) regardless of their FF status. But with the existing elite level bonuses in the program, they will always receive more FF miles than a non-elite for the same ticket purchased. Why is that not enough?

ashill

This is a class of service bonus, which has never had a status component; what's different is that EXPs get larger class of service bonuses through this promotion. Elites still get their status bonus in addition to this extra class of service bonus.

Superguy

Then why offer a tiered bonus at all? By your logic, the EXP will be the most tied to AA regardless - they should get the least amount then, right?

I doubt many kettles even know about that incentive. I mean hell, get those golds and plats out of the mindset of using stickers for upgrades and actually buying F fares. I'm not necessarily saying gold/plat should get the same incentive as an EXP, but something in between that and a kettle. Even with the incentive, there's no guarantee the kettle's going to stay. You have a much higher likelihood of the gold/plat staying. Why not reward that and further encourage them?

Fanjet

Let me remind you that when AA rolled out this promotion early last year, general members were given a lower amount of bonus miles than Golds/Plats. Months later, they changed that. So to them, there was a reason for doing so. Perhaps it was to incentivize a general member (who is willing to purchase a premium fare) to attain elite status on AA. Who knows. But they changed it from how it originally was.

kingstontoon

I've read through a number of threads but can't find too much detail on qualifying through segments. Previously, I've always achieved Platinum by flying a number of cheap long hauls each year, but with partner earnings down to 50% or less in most cases, this is no longer viable. I've never cared about segments in the past but usually end up with 40-45, so hitting 60 by always going the long way round could work.

My question is: what is an elite qualifying segment? Is it the case that as long as any Oneworld (or AS) marketed flight earns at least 1% EQMs, then that flight would count as an EQS? Would I be right in thinking (for example) that Cathay's deep discount fares, which earn 0% EQMs, would also NOT earn me an elite qualifying segment?

Cheers!

ashill

Yes to both.

nak_atx

Just had an interesting revelation about the 2x EQM multiplier (apologies if this has been discussed).

I've flown exactly one trip so far, one way AUS => DFW => LAX in First (P). This is normally a 1,735 mile trip (1235 + 500). However on my AAdvantage account page, it shows my Elite Qualifying Miles as 2,970. However, my assumption was this should have been 3,470.

I called the EXP desk, and the agent agreed that my assumption seemed right, and passed my to AAdvantage CS to confirm. After explaining to the agent, she put me on hold to get clarification, and then came back with (what was news to her) that the 2x is only on the FLOWN miles. So basically, because AUS => DFW is 183 miles, doubling that only takes me to 364, so I still only earn the 500 mile minimum. So it's basically the greater of either 1) double air miles, or 2) 500 miles.

She said that she's passed along that the elite qualifying info needs to be clearer (that the "flown" miles component truly means "flown", not doubling the 500-mile minimum), and put yet another "request" up the chain to ask for more transparency on aa.com for EQM detail.

Anyway, maybe this was already known, but it wasn't quite how I was planning things (given how most flights have an AUS <=> DFW leg).

ashill

I'm pretty sure this was not known; it was one of the biggest unanswered questions. on the apparent answer. It's a change from how EQPs were calculated in the past; the EQP multiplier (0.5, 1.0, or 1.5) was applied to the 500 mile minimum, not to the miles flown.

T. Sanderson

for me. I fly lots of full-fare Y segments under 500. It was nice to get a flat 750 EQP per segment, and made the math easy to keep track of.