RTW / Round the World ticket - earning AAdvantage Miles
Oct 27, 2019, 1:03 pm
#241
Join Date: Aug 2004
Programs: AA (EP), Hilton (Diamond), Marriott Bonvoy (Titanium)
Posts: 8,937
True, but there are fewer flights with actual first class then there used to be. I actually did just a few days ago book an RTW using the AA RTW desk specifically to use SWUs on HKG-DFW and LAX-JFK, because I find it so hard to use SWUs these days. I had to give up booking the AA flights as QF or BA codes, and couldn't even book CX flights as AY codes, which was especially annoying.
May 11, 2023, 1:24 pm
#242
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: MEX
Posts: 1,014
Has anybody been successful in getting the RTW desk to assign BA/QR/ codeshares on domestic flights with AA metal?
I fed the agent all these codeshares (I was very specific) and there was no pushback....but I guess then the rate desk can switch to AA flights at will before re-issuing the ticket?
I fed the agent all these codeshares (I was very specific) and there was no pushback....but I guess then the rate desk can switch to AA flights at will before re-issuing the ticket?
Aug 1, 2023, 11:49 am
#243
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: New York, NY
Programs: AA ExPl, DL PM, UA Silver, Hyatt Globalist, Marriott Titanium, probably some others
Posts: 4,105
Post-LP transition, do OW RTW tickets plated on AA book as special fares? Or do the AA legs book as typical AA tickets (how would they define the cash value for each leg?) and the non-AA legs as partner flights?
Aug 1, 2023, 3:33 pm
#244
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: used to be PER, now it's nowhere/eveywhere
Programs: QFF NB, AA GLD
Posts: 3,467
- plated on AA
- 1st AA-marketed, AT-operated
- 2nd and 3rd AA-marketed and AA-operated
All have posted under the Distance Method, which is what I hoped for but didn't expect,
because last year my three AA-marketed and AA-operated segments on my UL-plated DONE4 posted under the Fare Method.
Aug 17, 2023, 3:16 pm
#247
Join Date: Aug 2004
Programs: AA (EP), Hilton (Diamond), Marriott Bonvoy (Titanium)
Posts: 8,937
The official answer is that all AA-coded flights credit as fare, except those with opaque fares (such as certain flights booked via AAVacations). In practice, even normal AA itineraries, booked as normal one-ways or round-trips, sometimes post using distance. Even in those cases, sometimes the flights subsequently are adjusted to post as fare, perhaps by a routine audit or something. With itineraries that have a mix of AA- and non-AA-coded flights, the base fare is allocated per flight as the ratio of the flight's distance to the total flown distance. Carrier-imposed surcharges ("overcharges" as some call them) are more complicated and get allocated to specific flights, I believe.
Aug 17, 2023, 3:22 pm
#248
Join Date: Aug 2004
Programs: AA (EP), Hilton (Diamond), Marriott Bonvoy (Titanium)
Posts: 8,937
I have recently completed three AA-marketed segments on my current RTW ticket (a DGLOB34)
All have posted under the Distance Method, which is what I hoped for but didn't expect,
because last year my three AA-marketed and AA-operated segments on my UL-plated DONE4 posted under the Fare Method.
- plated on AA
- 1st AA-marketed, AT-operated
- 2nd and 3rd AA-marketed and AA-operated
All have posted under the Distance Method, which is what I hoped for but didn't expect,
because last year my three AA-marketed and AA-operated segments on my UL-plated DONE4 posted under the Fare Method.
Sep 28, 2023, 2:48 am
#250
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: NRT / HND
Programs: AA EXP, NH Plat, Former UA 1K
Posts: 5,672
Anyone with recent-ish experience with CX plated itineraries on AA codes as distance or revenue?
Last year I had a QF plated OW Explorer and AA credited as distance. I'm currently looking at AKL-DFW on a CX ticket, AA distance is obviously better than QF code but that's a huge ouch if revenue.
Last year I had a QF plated OW Explorer and AA credited as distance. I'm currently looking at AKL-DFW on a CX ticket, AA distance is obviously better than QF code but that's a huge ouch if revenue.
Nov 17, 2023, 6:29 pm
#251
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: New York, NY
Programs: AA ExPl, DL PM, UA Silver, Hyatt Globalist, Marriott Titanium, probably some others
Posts: 4,105
Updating here: I had the ticket revalidated after those first two flights. When I flew two domestic legs on AA, the AA flights credited with the fare method.
Nov 19, 2023, 8:10 pm
#252
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: land of aahhhhs (ICT)
Programs: EXP LTPlat
Posts: 492
I'm assuming you mean the two domestic legs, right? Did the revalidation reclassify the AA international flight, too?
Nov 20, 2023, 7:49 pm
#253
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: New York, NY
Programs: AA ExPl, DL PM, UA Silver, Hyatt Globalist, Marriott Titanium, probably some others
Posts: 4,105
Mar 18, 2024, 5:26 am
#254
Join Date: Mar 2024
Posts: 25