GUIDE: Earning EQD / Elite Qualifying Dollars on AA & partner airlines (as of 2019)
 

New thread to discuss EQD.

If AA copies Delta like they did with everything else then EQD on partners is the way to go.
http://onemileatatime.boardingarea.c...e-requirement/

I am a little slow, but quick question. While I hit 100,000 miles each year, most of the heavy lifting is 3 PY trips on CX to Asia. At $3-$4.5K per trip the spend is there, but not with AA. Do I get credit based upon the second EQD bullet in the wiki above?

Starting to wonder if changing to Marco Polo is the smart move, but love those upgrade certs when flying to LHR.

Yes, you will earn EQD credit. No, we won't know how that will be calculated until AA releases more details - they said this would occur 15 July 2016.

As long as you earn the required EQD and EQM (or EQS) you'll be good.

(And for some, it will be good news that as of 2017, it will not be necessary to fly four segments on AA marketed flights. Personally, I'm thinking this might yet change again.)

As it states in the wiki:

Peripheral issues:

AAVacations: unsure how these will accrue miles or credit EQD at this time.

EQD requirements will apply to non-US residents as well as US as currently exists

EQD waivers (if any) for affiliated credit card spend not announced at this time

Partners (AS and oneworld): accrual of EQM as reflected on charts on aa.com; EQD credit to be announced (15 Jul 2016)

It seems that even AAVacations will be treated as a standard "vacation package," i.e. distance-based EQD in initial feedback from AA on FB, apparently (according to the post below).

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/26746260-post177.html

Cheers.

Right now the EQD charts have not been revealed, but I would suspect that the base rate will be 10%, rising to a max of 20% (what Lifetime AirPass members earn). For DFW-PEK-DFW (about 14K miles) that would net between $1400 and $2800 EQD's/trip. But note that UA does not award any EQD's for tickets sold by others, even Star Alliance (but it does award miles), since UA does not get the revenue. If it is a code-share flight, then UA does counts EQD's. Expect AA to go this way sooner or later. No sense in being better than the others in the race to the bottom.

I'm looking at an upcoming international trip I have booked for the husband on partners. LAX-DOH-BOM-DOH-SYD

EQM earnings = 28,287 or about 28% of EQM qualifications for EXP

Using a 20% of base mileage calculation for premium class

EQD estimate = 3771.6 or about 31% of EQD requirement

Very equitable

One difference may be that AA has revenue sharing Joint Business Ventures with AY, BA, IB, JL, QF. This in itself might militate a different approach than UA.

As far as calculating EQDs does purchasing a flight with regards to EQDs count for the year purchased or the year flown?

For instance if I book a trip this December to fly in January will that EQD spend count for 2016 or 2017?

Year flown. Just like EQM, EQS, and RDM

Just as with the changes in earning award miles, EQM, etc. it's when you fly, not when you buy, that matters. Specifically, iirc, when you're "punched in" for boarding.

Though for upgrades "later" 2017, it'll be status followed by (ultimately) the rolling last 12 months' EQD that will be the secondary qualifier.

https://www.aa.com/i18n/AAdvantage/e...cial-fares.jsp
So does this chart mean that flying J via AAVacations earns EQDs equal to 30% of the mileage?

There is this caveat on the AAdvantage Program Updates page that is worrisome:
Are there any types of tickets that won’t earn award miles or EQDs? Tickets that currently don’t earn award miles, EQMs or EQSs won’t earn award miles or EQDs in the future. This includes:....Unpublished fare tickets, including consolidator fares

EQDs from Partner Flights
 

Has there been any announcement on how EQD's work for flights on partner airlines? I'm Exec Plat on AA and fly Alaska frequently -- will I earn a fraction of the EQDs for flights booked and flown on Alaska? Will I need to book them via AA?

Thanks in advance!

No hasn't been announced. Supposedly will be July 15. Thread here http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/ameri...es-2017-a.html

Note if you book your Alaska flights with an AA flight number ("marketed by" AA) then you will earn EQDs as if an AA flight. If the flights have an AS flight number, then it's TBD. It's the flight number ("marketed by") that matters, not buying the flights through AA.