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Earning American Airlines AAvantage Miles Flying CX / Cathay Pacific Airways (consolidated) Including known issues (e.g. upgrades) with AA / CX Earning AAdvantage Miles flying Cathay Pacific Airways NOTE: Travel on Cathay Pacific and its affiliate airline counts toward qualifying for AAdvantage elite status membership. However, please refer to aa.com here for fare classes that earn AAdvantage miles, not Cathay Pacific.
AAdvantage Elite members members traveling on Cathay also enjoy:
Flying CX as CX, most discounted economy fare classes do not earn AAdvantage miles; See the chart. See Link to AAdvantage chart on earning miles and EQD flying CX. Note: the CX website incorrectly indicates no AA miles for E fare; AA.com does and is correct *Premium Economy fare W on a flight operated by Cathay Pacific will earn an additional 10% class of service bonus with the exception of W fares between Hong Kong and Bangkok, which will not earn a class of service bonus, and Premium Economy R or E, which earn no class of service bonus. Upgrading to First on CX / Cathay Pacific Airways and U, Z Fare Class Issues Upgrading a paid Business fare to First on Cathay Pacific Airways puts the flight into fare class "Z", a class that is ineligible for AAdvantage miles accrual (as reflected on the accrual chart) because it is also an award classification for a First Class award. Upgrading a paid Premium Economy fare to Business puts it into U class, another award fare class that earns no AA miles. Members have recently reported success at having their upgrades acknowledged as miles-garnering (mid-June 2015).
Originally Posted by BosTravel
(Post 24756523)
I had the same issue. I upgraded from Biz to F using Asia Miles, but left my AA number in the reservation.
The outbound flight credited automatically without intervention. The inbound flight did not credit and I submitted the Missing Mileage Request. That request got denied due to ineligible fare class. All I did was call the ExecPlat desk and ask for AAdvantage Customer Service, who had record of the denied claim. I explained I paid for Biz, upgraded to F, and provided them with my original ticket number (both ticker numbers were on CX stock). Call took about 5 minutes and miles (and EQM/EQP) posted to the account the next day.
Originally Posted by gohima
(Post 24979163)
I just wanted to post the conclusion to my saga, that started with the brilliant idea to upgrade two CX flights in February (yes, 4 months ago).
Well, I Fedex'd a letter to the executive's office, which arrived Friday. Today, I received an email from an "executive liason" who said they agreed that "R" to "U" via an upgrade should be mileage earning and manually adjusted my account to receive credit. Account and status now reflects those flights. So despite certain aagents and lower-level SUPs saying this is CX's problem and to go pound sand, AA actually can do something about it (albit at a higher level than a regular SUP, I assume). By the phrasing of the answer, I would say this isn't a one time exception but rather what is supposed to happen for these flights. Godspeed to any other souls on this journey. Possible snail mail or FedEx to: Suzanne Rubin President – AAdvantage Loyalty Program, American Airlines 4333 Amon Carter Blvd Fort Worth, TX 76155 Wikipost as of 2018 |
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