Jan 3, 2016, 11:18 pm
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Earning Elite Qualifying Miles / EQM (and AA status) earning in 2016
on American Airlines and its partner airlines
on American Airlines and its partner airlines
Note: Earning EQM / Elite Qualifying Miles and their purpose changed 1/1/2016
Please continue discussion in our 2017 version of the thread:
Earning AA Elite Qualifying Miles / EQM on AA, partner airlines 2017
Thanks!
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New Elite Qualifying Miles earning
link to AAdvantage program changes for 2016 on aa.com
"You’ll continue to earn EQMs based on the airline and booking class purchased. Plus, Full-fare Economy, Business Class or First Class tickets on American-marketed flights will earn EQMs at a higher rate (up to 2.0 or 3.0 EQMs per flown mile) – getting you to elite status faster." - aa.com
Caveat: other than on American Airlines, discount or deep discount economy fares may be credited with fractional or even no EQM / Elite Qualifying Miles. Read carefully.
Please see this page (link) on aa.com for earning AAdvantage miles flying oneworld and additional airline partners, then read the chart for that airline partner. Be sure to note some fares operated by oneworld and additional partners may earn full, partial or no AA miles (E.g. Cathay Pacific only earns AA miles on H, B and full Y fares in coach; BA and IB fares may earn as few as 0.5 EQ Miles per mile flown as of 1 Feb 2016.)
Link to AAdvantage program update page on aa.com
link to AAdvantage program changes for 2016 on aa.com
"You’ll continue to earn EQMs based on the airline and booking class purchased. Plus, Full-fare Economy, Business Class or First Class tickets on American-marketed flights will earn EQMs at a higher rate (up to 2.0 or 3.0 EQMs per flown mile) – getting you to elite status faster." - aa.com
Caveat: other than on American Airlines, discount or deep discount economy fares may be credited with fractional or even no EQM / Elite Qualifying Miles. Read carefully.
Please see this page (link) on aa.com for earning AAdvantage miles flying oneworld and additional airline partners, then read the chart for that airline partner. Be sure to note some fares operated by oneworld and additional partners may earn full, partial or no AA miles (E.g. Cathay Pacific only earns AA miles on H, B and full Y fares in coach; BA and IB fares may earn as few as 0.5 EQ Miles per mile flown as of 1 Feb 2016.)
Link to AAdvantage program update page on aa.com
Read The AAdvantage Terms and Conditions here
Glossary:
- Award mile ("RDM" often "Redeemable Mile" on Flyertalk): a unit that can be spent on an award, such as a bonus, purchased, or other AAdvantage mile.
- Base mile: A unit based on a flown mile (can be a percentage of flown miles on AA partners) used to calculate redeemable (award usable) miles (changes late 2016 to revenue based system)
- Bonus Mile: Award Mile earned through various activities including flying, credit card use, hotel stays, auto rentals, shopping etc. with various American Airlines partners. See Earning AA Award / Redeemable Miles / RDM on AA, partners later 2016.
- Elite Qualifying Mile (EQM): A unit used to earn status, based on flown miles X purchased class of service for the marketing airline. On AA coded flights you earn from 0.5 EQM on Basic Economy to 3.0 full undiscounted J and F.
- Elite Qualifying Segment (EQS): A unit used to earn status equivalent to a sector flown by a qualifying flight (but note when the same flight number is flown over two or more sectors the entirety will generally count as one segment. "You’ll still earn 1 EQS (Elite Qualifying segment) for each eligible segment you fly." - aa.com (NOTE: New Basic Economy fares only earn 0.5 EQS.)
- Flown mile: actual miles flown (as published by AA - Great Circle Mapper, etc. are close
- Marketing airline is the airline "plating" or issuing the boarding pass, e.g. QF operated by FJ. The marketing airline's chart on aa.com (not the airline's) determines your miles earning on airline partners.
- Operating airline is the airline operating the flight. except for AA and QF (and a very few others) to earn miles on a oneworld marketed flight, the operating airline must generally be a oneworld airline.
- Qualifying flight: an AA or partner flight on which one can earn EQM, EQS in this instance
AAdvantage Status Four Annual American Airlines Segment Requirement
*Must fly at least four segments on American Airlines during the qualifying year to receive elite status. no longer a requirement as of 1/1/2027.
- AA marketed flights / AA codeshares operated by other carriers count. It has been reported codeshares operated by American Airlines also count.
On American Airlines marketed flights: (AA flights operated by AA and AA codeshares)
Exceptions: There are certain airline ticket types that are not eligible for mileage accrual regardless of the booking class. These include, without limitation, the following:
- 3 EQMs/mile – Full-fare First or Business
- 2 EQMs/mile - Discount First or Business
- 1.5 EQMs/mile – Full-fare Main Cabin, or W Premium Economy on AA codeshares
- 1 EQMs/mile - Discount Main Cabin
- 0.5 EQMs/mile - Basic Economy fares (new Feb 2017)
- All tickets issued as AAdvantage awards
- Other free ticket promotions including free or reduced rate tickets
- Companion tickets
- Charter flight tickets
- Travel agency/industry reduced rate tickets
- Infant tickets
- Items occupying a purchased seat (e.g. XTRASEAT)
- (Also Extra seats purchased by a passenger for him/herself)
- Unpublished fare tickets, including consolidator fares
- Tickets issued subject to special provisions
Earning EQM on AA partner airlines:
The amount of EQMs you earn on partner airlines has changed. Earning rates will vary depending on the marketing airline. On qualifying flights of airlines other than AA marketed flights, the maximum EQM that can be earned is 1.5 EQM per base mile flown.
EQMs may be earned at different rates and with differing fare classes, depending on airline, flown miles and fare class. Not all partner airlines' or their fares earn EQM. See here to partner airlines' miles earning charts link on aa.com.
Some non-oneworld partner airlines award only award / redeemable miles, not EQM (e.g. Etihad, Gulf, Fiji), unless flying them as an AA or QF marketed ("codeshare") flight.
Explore our partner airlines (link)
For example, using BA / British Airways marketed flights operated by oneworld partners including AA, as of 1 Feb 2016:
The amount of EQMs you earn on partner airlines has changed. Earning rates will vary depending on the marketing airline. On qualifying flights of airlines other than AA marketed flights, the maximum EQM that can be earned is 1.5 EQM per base mile flown.
EQMs may be earned at different rates and with differing fare classes, depending on airline, flown miles and fare class. Not all partner airlines' or their fares earn EQM. See here to partner airlines' miles earning charts link on aa.com.
Some non-oneworld partner airlines award only award / redeemable miles, not EQM (e.g. Etihad, Gulf, Fiji), unless flying them as an AA or QF marketed ("codeshare") flight.
Explore our partner airlines (link)
For example, using BA / British Airways marketed flights operated by oneworld partners including AA, as of 1 Feb 2016:
- 1.5 EQMs/mile - BA all published, purchased First Class fares
- 1.5 EQM / EQMs/mile - BA all published, purchased Business / Club fares
- 1.5 EQM / EQMs/mile - BA all published, purchased premium economy / Traveller Pus fares
- 1.0 EQM / EQMs/mile - BA all published, purchased full economy / Traveller Y and B fares
- 0.5 EQM / EQMs/mile - BA all other published, purchased economy / Traveller fares
AAdvantage Elite minimum mileage guarantee (applies to EQM and RDM)
How is the 500-mile EQM minimum benefit applied for elite members?
If your flight is less than 500 miles we’ll raise the base EQM amount to 500 prior to applying any multipliers, according to the booking code purchased. After applying the multiplier, the number of EQMs awarded could be less than 500. For example, if your flight is 300 miles in length, we will raise the base EQM amount to 500. If the multiplier to be applied is 0.50, you will earn 250 EQMs for the flight.
Elite members will earn at least 500 (250, in reality - see immediately above) miles for flights under 500 miles on American Airlines and American Eagle (including codeshare flights booked as an American Airlines flight number) and participating AAdvantage and oneworld airlines: *LAN includes LAN Airlines, LAN Argentina, LAN Ecuador and LAN Peru. Minima seem to not apply to new Basic Economy fares.
The 500 EQM minimum is what multipliers should be applied to, not actual miles when flown miles are under 500. See:
Earning AA Elite Qualifying Miles / EQM on AA, oneworld, partner airlines 2016.
aa.com: link
How is the 500-mile EQM minimum benefit applied for elite members?
If your flight is less than 500 miles we’ll raise the base EQM amount to 500 prior to applying any multipliers, according to the booking code purchased. After applying the multiplier, the number of EQMs awarded could be less than 500. For example, if your flight is 300 miles in length, we will raise the base EQM amount to 500. If the multiplier to be applied is 0.50, you will earn 250 EQMs for the flight.
Elite members will earn at least 500 (250, in reality - see immediately above) miles for flights under 500 miles on American Airlines and American Eagle (including codeshare flights booked as an American Airlines flight number) and participating AAdvantage and oneworld airlines:
- airberlin
- Alaska Airlines
- British Airways
- Fiji Airways (non-oneworld; RDM only)
- Finnair
- Gulf Air (non-oneworld; RDM only)
- Iberia
- LAN*
- Qantas
- Royal Jordanian
- SriLankan Airlines
- TAM Airlines
The 500 EQM minimum is what multipliers should be applied to, not actual miles when flown miles are under 500. See:
Further confirmation of above from inside AA. He (JonNYC) got a message from AAdvantage
Cheers.
So, they will do an adjustment for those that were shorted so far and the system will soon be fixed for real.
Cheers.
Originally Posted by JonNYC Vie
That's what I'm told as well-- fix on the way, system not operating as intended at present.
Further confirmation of above from inside AA. He got a message from AAdvantage
That's what I'm told as well-- fix on the way, system not operating as intended at present.
Further confirmation of above from inside AA. He got a message from AAdvantage
Originally Posted by AAdvantage
Thanks for your questions on EQM earning. There is a glitch in how the minimum mileage guarantee for EQMs is being calculated. The calculation should credit the 500 mile minimum before applying the EQM multiplier. Beginning in the next few weeks, we will be running a retroactive process to “true up” any accounts where the member did not earn the proper number of EQMs. This process will continue to run until the calculation can be reprogrammed in the AAdvantage system.
So, they will do an adjustment for those that were shorted so far and the system will soon be fixed for real.
Thanks for your questions on EQM earning. There is a glitch in how the minimum mileage guarantee for EQMs is being calculated. The calculation should credit the 500 mile minimum before applying the EQM multiplier. Beginning in the next few weeks, we will be running a retroactive process to “true up” any accounts where the member did not earn the proper number of EQMs. This process will continue to run until the calculation can be reprogrammed in the AAdvantage system.
So, they will do an adjustment for those that were shorted so far and the system will soon be fixed for real.
So, they will do an adjustment for those that were shorted so far and the system will soon be fixed for real.
Cheers.
aa.com: link
Elite Qualifying (EQM) or Redeemable (RDM)?
To determine if you earn EQM or RDM, read the "Earn miles" statement for each airline:
This will earn EQM:
This will not earn EQM, only RDM:
To determine if you earn EQM or RDM, read the "Earn miles" statement for each airline:
This will earn EQM:
Earn miles
Earn elite-qualifying AAdvantage miles when you fly on airberlin marketed and operated flights as well as airberlin codeshare flights operated by American Airlines. Simply:
Earn elite-qualifying AAdvantage miles when you fly on airberlin marketed and operated flights as well as airberlin codeshare flights operated by American Airlines. Simply:
- Buy an eligible published fare ticket booked in an eligible code
- Fly an eligible route
- Specific flights, routes or cities that are excluded from earning miles or award travel are listed as exceptions if applicable.
Earn miles
Earn AAdvantage miles when you fly on Fiji Airways marketed and operated flights as well as Fiji Airways codeshare flights operated by American Airlines. Simply:
Earn AAdvantage miles when you fly on Fiji Airways marketed and operated flights as well as Fiji Airways codeshare flights operated by American Airlines. Simply:
- Buy an eligible published fare ticket booked in an eligible code
- Fly an eligible route
- Specific flights, routes or cities that are excluded from earning miles or award travel are listed as exceptions if applicable.
oneworld Codeshares Operated by non-oneworld Airlines or Affiliates
Other than flying Qantas (and some Japan Airlines) codeshares / marketed flights, oneworld codeshare flights must be operated by oneworld airlines and their oneworld affiliates to earn miles.
E.g. AA codeshare operated by EY, earn as if flying AA.
E.g. Flying EY, earn Redeemable (not Elite Qualifying) miles.
E.g. BA operated by Bangkok Airways, no AA miles.
E.g. Iberia operated by SN yields no AA miles.
E.g. QF flown by FJ should to earn EQM.
Other than flying Qantas (and some Japan Airlines) codeshares / marketed flights, oneworld codeshare flights must be operated by oneworld airlines and their oneworld affiliates to earn miles.
E.g. AA codeshare operated by EY, earn as if flying AA.
E.g. Flying EY, earn Redeemable (not Elite Qualifying) miles.
E.g. BA operated by Bangkok Airways, no AA miles.
E.g. Iberia operated by SN yields no AA miles.
E.g. QF flown by FJ should to earn EQM.
Examples: (For a flight of 1,000 flown miles)
- AA marketed on full F fare class First: 3,000 EQM (regardless of status, regardless of operating airline)
- AA marketed on discounted First or Business (A, P, D, I, R): 2,000 EQM
- AA in deep discount economy: 1,000 EQM
- BA marketed qualifying flight in F First, Business (Club), Premium Economy (World Traveller Plus): 1,500 EQM (even if operated by AA)
- BA marketed qualifying flight in Economy (World Traveller) B, Y: 1,000 EQM
- BA marketed qualifying flight in Economy (World Traveller) H, K, L, M, N, S, V, G, O, Q: 500 EQM
NOTES:
- All AA marketed ("AA codeshares") flights in paid, qualifying fare classes earn 1.0 or more EQM (regardless of "metal" or operating airline
- oneworld marketed flights operated by oneworld airlines earn miles in accord with the marketing airline's miles earnings chart on aa.com (link)
- AAdvantage elites continue to be awarded 500 EQM minimum on qualifying flights - see above (non-elites also earn minimum 500 EQM on Shuttlesonly through the first half of 2016)
- oneworld marketed flights operated by NON-oneworld airlines do not earn EQ (or any) miles, with rare exceptions - QF, a few JL, marketed flights
- Exception: Qantas flights operated by other airlines earn AA EQ miles in qualifying fare classes, other than those QF codeshares operated by QF subsidiary Jetstar
- Some airline partners allow crediting base miles and earning redeemable miles (no EQM) flown "natively", such as Etihad or Fiji
Earn more EQMs via credit card earning
Also, as a Citi® / AAdvantage® Executive card or AAdvantage® Aviator™ Silver MasterCard® credit cardmember, you’ll still earn 10,000 EQMs after you reach your qualifying spend for the year when you use your eligible AAdvantage credit card.
Learn more about the Citi®/AAdvantage® Executive card
Learn more about the AAdvantage® Aviator™ Silver MasterCard®
Also, as a Citi® / AAdvantage® Executive card or AAdvantage® Aviator™ Silver MasterCard® credit cardmember, you’ll still earn 10,000 EQMs after you reach your qualifying spend for the year when you use your eligible AAdvantage credit card.
Learn more about the Citi®/AAdvantage® Executive card
Learn more about the AAdvantage® Aviator™ Silver MasterCard®
CAUTION: To earn status on AA you must fly a minimum of four qualifying segments on an AA marketed or operated flight within the qualifying year. (The exception has been for elite status challenges.)
The now obsolete thread: Earning AA miles / EQM on oneworld, partner & other airlines (OBSOLETE)
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Updated 23 Jan 2017 - JDiver
ARCHIVE: Earning AA Elite Qualifying Miles / EQM on AA, partner airlines 2016
Mar 1, 2016, 2:21 pm
#256
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You are owed 280 EQMs because your CLT-BWI flight should have had the 500 mile minimum applied before calculating the class of service-based EQMs, not after.
Current: 1471 + 1235 + max(360*2, 500) + 2125*2 = 7676.
Should be: 1471 + 1235 + max(360,500)*2 + 2125*2 = 7956.
As discussed extensively in this thread, there's currently a bug which miscalculated multipliers when the 500 mile minimum is involved. There are numerous strong sources who say that AA will shortly run a batch process that will retroactively correct this, so another 280 EQMs should appear in your account sooner or later to get your total from these flights to 7956.
Current: 1471 + 1235 + max(360*2, 500) + 2125*2 = 7676.
Should be: 1471 + 1235 + max(360,500)*2 + 2125*2 = 7956.
As discussed extensively in this thread, there's currently a bug which miscalculated multipliers when the 500 mile minimum is involved. There are numerous strong sources who say that AA will shortly run a batch process that will retroactively correct this, so another 280 EQMs should appear in your account sooner or later to get your total from these flights to 7956.
Mar 1, 2016, 3:41 pm
#257
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Mar 1, 2016, 6:57 pm
#258
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I am trying to do the platinum challenge, so, after all of my flights, I am about a 1,000 miles short. So, I spoke to ticketing, and I asked them for any suggestions, and the rep advised me to change one of my tickets (only in one direction) to first class and pay the difference, which would give me 2x the miles so I could qualify. So, I paid $453 difference on top of my original ticket price and was moved to first class. The flight has 2 legs, one international (Dominican) and one domestic. The international leg was moved from O to I and the domestic was moved from O to A. And, they assured me multiple times that, because this isn't an upgrade (like I did with the other way), but actually a purchased first class ticket, I would get double miles. But, when calling AAdvantage customer service today, I was told it would still be based on the original booking code, even though I actually paid the real difference (I looked on the AA website and, with the fare difference, I'm actually paying the full cost of a discounted first class ticket). Thus, I would not be getting double miles. Is this accurate? If so, what can I do about it, since I was lied to by three different AA reps, including 1 supervisor? Is there anything I could do or change it to to make it 2x miles? Or, if not, get my $453 back? Thanks, and sorry for the long post.
Mar 1, 2016, 7:04 pm
#259
Join Date: May 2009
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Welcome to FlyerTalk.
If it is a qualifying flight (e.g. a oneworld marketed flight other than JL or QF marketed operated by a non-oneworld airline does not qualify) the marketing airline will determine the miles earned, regardless of operating airline.
E.g. Fly AA operated as AS marketed, earn per the Alaska Airlines chart on aa.com.
Fly an EY marketed flight on AA, earn only Award (no Elite Qualifying) Miles, as if flying Etihad.
Fly a JL marketed flight operated by AA, earn per the Japan Airlines chart on aa.com.
Fly an AA marketed flight operated by any airline, earn as if flying AA.
We will soon merge into the existing thread: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/ameri...es-2016-a.html
See http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/ameri...so-irrops.html too view a number of resources and thread links of interest. Many of those have wikiposts summarizing both AA documented and undocumented information.
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If it is a qualifying flight (e.g. a oneworld marketed flight other than JL or QF marketed operated by a non-oneworld airline does not qualify) the marketing airline will determine the miles earned, regardless of operating airline.
E.g. Fly AA operated as AS marketed, earn per the Alaska Airlines chart on aa.com.
Fly an EY marketed flight on AA, earn only Award (no Elite Qualifying) Miles, as if flying Etihad.
Fly a JL marketed flight operated by AA, earn per the Japan Airlines chart on aa.com.
Fly an AA marketed flight operated by any airline, earn as if flying AA.
We will soon merge into the existing thread: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/ameri...es-2016-a.html
See http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/ameri...so-irrops.html too view a number of resources and thread links of interest. Many of those have wikiposts summarizing both AA documented and undocumented information.
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Mar 1, 2016, 8:01 pm
#260
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: CUR
Posts: 2,170
Edit: Disregard.
Does she have status? If so, perhaps you're reading her statement incorrectly and including her RDM bonus.
Last edited by Djokison; Mar 2, 2016 at 3:43 am
Mar 1, 2016, 9:11 pm
#261
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Per the Iberia table, under aa.com, with fare code O:
Base miles: 25%
EQMs: 50%
50 is double 25, so EQM is double the base miles.
GCMAP says MIA-MAD is 4,424 miles. So RDM (Base miles) earned should be (.25*4424)= 1106 miles, matching what OP received. Double that for EQMs.
Mar 2, 2016, 3:36 am
#262
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: CUR
Posts: 2,170
Makes perfect sense.
Per the Iberia table, under aa.com, with fare code O:
Base miles: 25%
EQMs: 50%
50 is double 25, so EQM is double the base miles.
GCMAP says MIA-MAD is 4,424 miles. So RDM (Base miles) earned should be (.25*4424)= 1106 miles, matching what OP received. Double that for EQMs.
Per the Iberia table, under aa.com, with fare code O:
Base miles: 25%
EQMs: 50%
50 is double 25, so EQM is double the base miles.
GCMAP says MIA-MAD is 4,424 miles. So RDM (Base miles) earned should be (.25*4424)= 1106 miles, matching what OP received. Double that for EQMs.
Thanks for the clarification!
Last edited by Djokison; Mar 2, 2016 at 5:50 am
Mar 2, 2016, 4:26 am
#263
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Just to be clear, EQP were always calculated as a multiplier on EQM, not base miles.
Mar 2, 2016, 6:13 am
#265
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If anything could stand to be clearer.... it's AA's website. Seriously...
Mar 3, 2016, 8:55 am
#266
Join Date: Jan 2013
Posts: 37
Earning EQMs on Air Berlin
Howdy,
So, I am considering a TXL-TLV flight later this year on Air Berlin, and I am trying to figure out if it is possible to book this through AA such that the flights are AA-coded and I earn EQMs per AA's chart. Any ideas? Muchas gracias in advance.
J
So, I am considering a TXL-TLV flight later this year on Air Berlin, and I am trying to figure out if it is possible to book this through AA such that the flights are AA-coded and I earn EQMs per AA's chart. Any ideas? Muchas gracias in advance.
J
Mar 3, 2016, 8:58 am
#267
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No. It's not common for codeshares to exist from airline in country A for travel between country B and country C. ITA Matrix finds nothing AA-coded TXL-TLV for 30 days from mid-March.
Mar 3, 2016, 9:06 am
#268
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Most likely, if there is an AA code share, you'd be able to book it if you were connecting to or from an AA flight.
Mar 3, 2016, 9:34 am
#269
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Where to find list for award flight costs from Europe?
I would like to know how many miles does it cost :
Finland-Usa
Finland-Italy
Finland - Thailand..
If booking now or after 22th March...
I would like to know how many miles does it cost :
Finland-Usa
Finland-Italy
Finland - Thailand..
If booking now or after 22th March...
Mar 3, 2016, 10:39 am
#270
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Just posting this as a data point for anybody who might be in the same situation
I end up flying between 10-15 flights per year with AS, so it was a big disappointment when AA announced the changes to earnings a few months ago. Unless booked in F/P/Y/S, you will only earn 50% EQMs on a prime AS flight booked in B, H, M, Q, U, G, K, L, T, V.
My 2016 travel schedule has had a lot of changes, though one of the AS tickets I booked ended up as a G fare. Prior to 1/1, this would have earned 100% EQMs, so it was no surprise to see that I was only credited with 50% a few weeks ago. I didn't expect to get a positive answer, though when I called AAdv CS, the AAgent was happy to adjust the flight to reflect 100% EQMs because I booked prior to AA announcing the changes to partner earning.
Going forward, I'll either try to stick with AA codeshares, where available, or book the P fare.
I end up flying between 10-15 flights per year with AS, so it was a big disappointment when AA announced the changes to earnings a few months ago. Unless booked in F/P/Y/S, you will only earn 50% EQMs on a prime AS flight booked in B, H, M, Q, U, G, K, L, T, V.
My 2016 travel schedule has had a lot of changes, though one of the AS tickets I booked ended up as a G fare. Prior to 1/1, this would have earned 100% EQMs, so it was no surprise to see that I was only credited with 50% a few weeks ago. I didn't expect to get a positive answer, though when I called AAdv CS, the AAgent was happy to adjust the flight to reflect 100% EQMs because I booked prior to AA announcing the changes to partner earning.
Going forward, I'll either try to stick with AA codeshares, where available, or book the P fare.
