It's just a comment about finding availability. Anything else to criticize? Sheesh

ExpertFlyer pulls it up just fine, so should be no issue as long as you find the fare bucket you need.

My ANC segment is partly mileage run but also largely because I love Alaska.

Am curious as to how you would have gotten 280 from an ANC-LAX-ORD - from a business class perspective that would have earned 140 tp for the ANC-LAX and 40 tp for the LAX-ORD which is below the magical 2000 mile distance? I do remember something a few years back when if you were booked on a DONE* that if you were flying in the US on AA and it was a 2 class service that you could then book A class - so not sure if you were maybe calculating based on being awarded the tps based on First class earning?

With AS joining you now really have 3 over 2000 mile options between AA and AS that operate year round: LAX/PHX/DFW

Sorry, who said anything about LAX-ORD?

Me......misreading things :)

Does anyone have experience crediting miles on AA and BA flights to AAdvantage on a DONE* ticket? How do they calculate the cost or is it done on a mileage basis?

AA forum---> https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/amer...age-miles.html
Are posts in the various *ONE* threads on earning to AAdvantage

AAdvantage won't give an actual answer on this, but my best guess is that it depends on the ticketing airline. On a CX ticketed DONEx AA flights credited as revenue, which was obviously quite small. On both QF ticketed DONEx's I've had the AA segments credited as distance. I have no experience with BA segments myself.

I have an issue ticketing one of these (I am a TA and have done hundreds). for some reason the below itinerary is fine but when i add PER-SYD between 2-3 it errors out - any idea why?


1 JL 723D 13OCT S NRTKUL HK2 1115A 555P
2 JL7981D 13OCT S KULPER HK2 740P 110A 14OCT
3 QF 63A 18OCT F SYDJNB HK2 1030A 410P HRS
4 QR1378D 23OCT W JNBDOH*HK2 815P 535A 24OCT
5 QR 3A 24OCT Q DOHLHR*HK2 800A 115P HRS
6 BA 173A 26OCT J LHRJFK HK2 1140A 225P HRS
7 AA 1A 28OCT M JFKLAX HK2 600A 907A
8 AA2219D 26JAN S CUNDFW*HK2 300P 510P
9 AA1434D 26JAN S DFWYVR*HK2 650P 923P
10 AA6240D 15FEB J YVRLAX HK2 134P 449P
11 CX 883A 15FEB J LAXHKG*HK2 1015P 615A 17FEB
12 CX 653D 17FEB M HKGBKK*HK2 1200N 205P
13 JL 34A 19FEB W BKKHND HK2 1005P 540A 20FEB

Is D class available? (assuming a DONE*)
Tried PER-MEL-SYD or PER-BNE-SYD?

I am specifically asking about the routing rules - it fails at that stage. (fyi you can recognise it as AONE5 fare - after the flight number is booking class) adding PER-ADL for example is allowed but MEL/SYD fail. even though this is the only transcon in australia so it doesnt make sense. unless its somehow counting SYD-JNB as transcon in aussie/...

The PER-SYD segment is certainly allowed by the routing rules (but you knew that already:D)
I've idea why it's being disallowed.

I am four segments in to my QF-issued DONE5
Two BA segments accrued to AAdvantage on the distance method
Two AA segments accrued to AAdvantage on the revenue method
The two AA segments were quite short, so I'm not too fussed by the impact

Tomorrow I fly a loooong QF segment (JFK-SYD) :D

What date and flight number are you choosing?

Just one data point -- have experienced an AA ticketed DONE4 and the AA coded flights that showed up on the Amadeus pnr alongside partner metal were credited as distance. The AA coded flights that were only on the Sabre record were revenue method.