This is my understanding - not sure what change is happening in MArch which will affect it ( or are you referring the miles per $ which is due sometine in 2nd half 2016 )

No this is what I was asking for as I have some travels between now and Feb which I would credit to AAdvantage

From the FAQs:To my mind a "ticket" is based on the old paper tickets, and consists of four coupons.
When I purchase a Oneworld Explorer ticket, it usually has 16 flights and so consists of four tickets

So would the limit of 75,000 award miles be for each ticket, or for all four tickets - in other words the limit would apply to my entire RTW journey?

The short quess? Whatever works best for AA.
The speculation? Somebody forgot about OW tickets.

My guess? A single OW ticket (ie up to 16 segments - single PNR) can earn a maximum of 75K RDM. If the total traveled is 50K miles and 23K of that is on AA, the most you'll get in the AA program is (23/50 ) * 75K or 34500 points.

Best case? 75K to AA from a single PNR. What other airline programs?
Worst case? Do you remember the "other" OW mileage based ticket?

(Current dream) Happy wandering

Fred

I doubt that any aspect of old paper tickets has any relevance now.
I would assume that they will define a ticket as any booking with one ticket number. Sadly, unless they make an exception for RTWs, they may well be subject to the 75K maximum.

Another question related to RTWs after AA switches to revenue-based RDMs - when will the RDMs post to your account: after the first flight (doubtful), after each flight (how will they allocate the cost), or after the last flight which could be 12 months later?
Can we assume that any RTW booked (or started?) before the switch will continue to earn RDMs under the old miles-based system?

Until the AA website is clarified, this is only an assumption. Nobody knows how EQMs will come out on BA in 2016, since the AA site currently contradicts itself on this point.

That's my point - a RTW itinerary can have four tickets (each ticket having four flights, for a total of sixteen)

Good point. We of course don't know how the revenue from a RTW is split between the carriers, and whether subsequent routing changes during the validity of the ticket can affect the revenue earning by carriers for flights already flown. An extreme example might be if the pax decides to add one or more continents to a Oneworld Explorer - how might that affect the carrier revenue for already flown flights
I suspect AA has given this no thought at all.
I wonder how DL and UA handle this for ST *A RTW products
I don't think we can make that assumption. But just how AA will handle it remains to be seen.

No. As I understand base miles (a base measure used to calculate other AAdvantage benefits):

Currently, base miles are actual miles flown ("butt in seat"); they are usually EQM as well, as we currently earn one EQM per base mile. Base miles are merely mileposts, and EQM, RDM including bonus miles are calculated as percentages of base miles (rather than EQM, which occasionally have been greater than 1:1 during some promos and offers.

Base miles will remain a base for calculating 0.5 to 3.0 EQM per base mile, and RDM will be calculated on dollars spent - including airline imposed fees, a clouding fees and government imposed fees such as ag inspection, TSA, etc.

But - currently, EQM are also Redeemable and accrue for awards. It appears to me the EQM of the future will no longer do so, and will in effect replace EQP as milestones used in determining status only.

I believe the EQP promo this year was somewhat of a prototype trial, if you will, leading up to next year's use of EQM as a measure with no redeemable value. In essence, in my eyes, EQP merely get renamed EQM and the EQM we have today are going away.

I think that is it exactly. And it is also why there is so much confusion.

Hi All,

Have I missed something?

EQM/RDMs until the system changes late in 2016 are abundantly clear, so are RDMs after the change. Do we know much or even anything about EQMs in the new, late 2016 onwards program and have i missed it ?

Quite possibly, do THEY know anyhing about those later future EQMs ? or actually about the program itself apart from THE RDMs ?

Thanks

Please read the wiki. There are also several posts that explain it.

EQM now basically become mileposts for status, essentially replacing EQP (which cease to exist), earning 0.5 - 3.0 EQM per base (flown) mile, but as I understand it with no redemption value. AA marketed flights, to be clear, will earn 1.0 EQM per base mile minimum.

I believe this begins 1/1/16 to keep count for status earning during c/y 2016.

RDMs are as always redeemable miles, based on status and fare (including airline imposed fees, but excluding taxes, government and airport imposed fees. Some of this will be implemented "later", iirc. There is more change "later in the 2nd half of 2016", but the base and EQM will be the same for status purposes - and EQ Segment requirements remain the same.

Actually, I believe that the EQM are very clear at the LATER time. That is in the EQM column at the end for post-Feb 1.

I think it is the RDM for non-AA that is yet to be determined (they say as much explicitly).

I believe (as others have also opined) that the (elite qualifying) on the Base Miles for post-Feb 1 is a mistake from the prior table. If that were not there, it would be very clear:

After Feb 1, EQM go by the EQM column. And this continues indefinitely with no change in the foreseeable future.

After Feb 1, RDM will be based on the Base Miles column. And these have nothing to do with "Elite Qualifying."

Somewhere later the RDM equation will change, but this has yet to be determined beyond the notion that a change IS coming.

Cheers.

Hmmm...where shall I fly to reach 200K, just to get "those 2"?

So will the bump up in EQM's count toward lifetime status?

No changes to the million miler programme have been announced as part of this.