Jun 11, 2015, 4:59 pm
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Earning Elite Qualifying Miles and Dollars, and Award Miles Flying on Cathay Pacific Airways
including earning on upgraded flights, flights between YVR and JFK
link to page on aa.com.
To earn AAdvantage® miles when you fly on Cathay Pacific marketed and operated flights as well as Cathay Pacific codeshare flights operated by oneworld® carriers and affiliates:
On most flights marketed by partner airlines, you earn award miles based on a percentage of the flight distance and the fare class of your ticket. Specific flights, routes or cities that are excluded from earning miles or award travel are listed as exceptions if applicable.KNOWN ISSUES
AAdvantage Elite members members traveling on Cathay also enjoy:
Additional elite status bonus miles
If you fly CX as an AA codeshare / marketed flight, you will earn as if you were flying on AA.
Cathay Pacific marketed (“codeshare”) flights must be operated by a oneworld® or affiliate airline to earn AAdvantage miles. The ticketing or selling carrier or agent is immaterial to earnings.
It is always advised to try to assure your AA Frequent Flyer Number is on your boarding passes, and we always advise retaining your boarding passes (or take screen shots of e-boarding passes) until your instruments have all posted.
Thanks to nkedel.
Also see: https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/amer...-partners.html
Link to archive of older posts
including earning on upgraded flights, flights between YVR and JFK
link to page on aa.com.
To earn AAdvantage® miles when you fly on Cathay Pacific marketed and operated flights as well as Cathay Pacific codeshare flights operated by oneworld® carriers and affiliates:
- Buy an eligible published fare ticket in an eligible booking code
- Fly an eligible route
On most flights marketed by partner airlines, you earn award miles based on a percentage of the flight distance and the fare class of your ticket. Specific flights, routes or cities that are excluded from earning miles or award travel are listed as exceptions if applicable.KNOWN ISSUES
- Economy fares other than Y, B or H on CX do not earn AAdvantage miles
- B and H only earn fractional (75%) credit on AA
- Upgrades purchased with CX miles may book into ineligible fare classes, causing challenges getting AA to credit the originally purchased fare class (see below)
- there are a few fare classes that CX says do not earn AAdvantage miles, whereas aa.com says they will, as do members reporting their experiences here
- JFK-YVR and YVR-JFK do accrue EQ and miles on eligible fares. JFK-YVR-HKG accrues as if nonstop JFK-HKG.
- Premium Economy fare W on 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.
AAdvantage Elite members members traveling on Cathay also enjoy:
Additional elite status bonus miles
If you fly CX as an AA codeshare / marketed flight, you will earn as if you were flying on AA.
Cathay Pacific marketed (“codeshare”) flights must be operated by a oneworld® or affiliate airline to earn AAdvantage miles. The ticketing or selling carrier or agent is immaterial to earnings.
It is always advised to try to assure your AA Frequent Flyer Number is on your boarding passes, and we always advise retaining your boarding passes (or take screen shots of e-boarding passes) until your instruments have all posted.
Upgrading to First on 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 accruing miles, but it may require persistence.
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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 accruing miles, but it may require persistence.
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.
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.
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.
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:
Sean Bentel
Vice President -- Customer and Relations
4333 Amon Carter Blvd
Fort Worth, TX 76155
Sean Bentel
Vice President -- Customer and Relations
4333 Amon Carter Blvd
Fort Worth, TX 76155
Also see: https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/amer...-partners.html
Link to archive of older posts
Earning AA AAdvantage Miles /LPs on CX / Cathay (including Upgrade Issues)
Sep 24, 2019, 11:56 pm
#152
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Oct 3, 2019, 12:49 pm
#154
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Nov 6, 2019, 2:57 pm
#155
Moderator, El Al and Marriott Bonvoy, FlyerTalk Evangelist
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CX deep discounted business “O” class doesn’t show up in the AAdvantage page that breaks down earning when flying CX. It says that a bucket that doesn’t show won’t earn anything. Is this truly a business class fare in CX that earns nothing in AA?
To clarify this is a ticket between BKK and HND on CX booked through the CX website. One leg may be on JL metal.
To clarify this is a ticket between BKK and HND on CX booked through the CX website. One leg may be on JL metal.
Last edited by yosithezet; Nov 6, 2019 at 3:02 pm
Nov 6, 2019, 6:46 pm
#156
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: AUS
Programs: BAEC Gold, AA PPro, Hyatt Globalist, Amex Plat
Posts: 7,027
CX deep discounted business “O” class doesn’t show up in the AAdvantage page that breaks down earning when flying CX. It says that a bucket that doesn’t show won’t earn anything. Is this truly a business class fare in CX that earns nothing in AA?
To clarify this is a ticket between BKK and HND on CX booked through the CX website. One leg may be on JL metal.
To clarify this is a ticket between BKK and HND on CX booked through the CX website. One leg may be on JL metal.
https://www.cathaypacific.com/cx/en_...-POLO-CLUB_1_3
Regards
Nov 8, 2019, 10:43 pm
#157
Join Date: Dec 2015
Posts: 138
Best AA Earnings on CX?
KUL-HKG trying to earn some AA EQM on a CX flight. Discount economy doesn't earn anything. Does it make sense to pay twice as much for flex economy (H) for 0.50 EQM or 4 times as much for Business (J) for 1.50 EQM? Or do I just go with a standard discount economy for cheap and not worry about EQM? I just hate not earning anything.
Nov 9, 2019, 1:15 am
#159
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: SNA
Programs: AA EXP, UA 1K (until it expires then never again), *wood Plat, Marriott Gold
Posts: 9,239
I would never pay more for a Y ticket to get more EQMs, that's just silly IMO you're paying money to get nothing other than a few elite miles. If you want to fly J and the cost difference isn't prohibitive for you then do it but I'd not do it to get a few extra EQMs especially on such a short flight.
Nov 9, 2019, 10:45 am
#160
Join Date: Dec 2015
Posts: 138
I need the times of the CX flight. EF does show MH has codeshare availability for the CX flight but the flight doesn't show up on the MH website, that would at least earn me 0.25 EQM. Maybe I can call MH to book? Or maybe it's only available as a continuing flight on MH metal?
Nov 13, 2019, 2:24 am
#161
Join Date: Nov 2019
Posts: 6
Actual transfer time and process
Does anyone know the actual procedure and times miles transfer to AA after taking a CX flight? Not the talking points of “it takes 30 days or 7-10 days”, but what actually happens. Example: CX sends a batch file to AA M-F except Holidays the next business day after your flight... etc. Every one world partner has a standard procedure in how they actually transfer to AA.
Nov 19, 2019, 4:47 pm
#162
Join Date: Jan 2009
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Does anyone know the actual procedure and times miles transfer to AA after taking a CX flight? Not the talking points of “it takes 30 days or 7-10 days”, but what actually happens. Example: CX sends a batch file to AA M-F except Holidays the next business day after your flight... etc. Every one world partner has a standard procedure in how they actually transfer to AA.
Nov 19, 2019, 5:16 pm
#163
Join Date: Nov 2019
Posts: 6
Dec 17, 2019, 5:35 am
#164
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: USA
Posts: 635
Did My friend earn the correct amount of AA miles from Cathay First Flight?
A friend recently took a Cathay RT flight from NY to HKG. He was in paid first class (A) and earned a total of around 24000 total miles into his AA account. Is this correct for A booking class or should he have earned more miles? (He didn’t have a Alaska account at the time of flight; I did and earned 350% bonus).
thanks
thanks
Dec 17, 2019, 5:40 am
#165
Join Date: Aug 2012
Programs: AA PLT, SPG Gold
Posts: 2,405
A friend recently took a Cathay RT flight from NY to HKG. He was in paid first class (A) and earned a total of around 24000 total miles into his AA account. Is this correct for A booking class or should he have earned more miles? (He didn’t have a Alaska account at the time of flight; I did and earned 350% bonus).
thanks
thanks