50% bonus miles when flying American Airlines or US Airways

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• Stuart McIntyre says:

  17 Jan17 January 08:23

  Any thoughts on whether tier point would still be awarded?

  E.g. Flying US airways flights taking points onto a AAdvantage account, would a transcontinental First ticket still get 210 tier points? I am assuming not, but can’t find that info anywhere.

  • Alan says:

    17 Jan17 January 08:51

    If you’re crediting to an AA account then you won’t get any tier points, you only get them when crediting to BA. Once US is fully integrated into AA and becomes part of Oneworld then you’ll be able to credit to BA.

  • Rob says:

    17 Jan17 January 09:20

    It would be tier credit in AA, which works on a different basis to how BA calculates it.

    • Adam says:

      19 Jan19 January 07:45

      Raffles, can you credit an AA flight (or BA Codeshare) to American using your AAdvantage number but also earn On Business points?

      • Rob says:

        19 Jan19 January 09:46

        If its a qualifying flight for OB points (only some AA flights count) in theory it should work, but never done it.

• Simon says:

  19 Jan19 January 14:23

  Slightly off topic but I’ve got a return flight to Miami which was booked using ba.com (going out on an AA plane coming back on BA) it should earn me about 10k Avios and 125 tier points.

  If I credit the flight to my AAdvantage account instead what would I get? Assuming I wanted to do this what’s the easiest way of changing the booking? I don’t remember seeing the option on ba.com.

  • Rob says:

    19 Jan19 January 14:45

    I think AA would give you the same (1 mile per 1 mile flown), you can easily check on aa.com.

    The easiest way to change the number is to use the Finnair website, oddly. Their ‘Manage My Booking’ function lets you change the details for any oneworld flight.

    • Simon says:

      19 Jan19 January 16:21

      Thanks Raffles, I’ve signed up on Finnair.

      Using the BA calculator and AA page it looks like the only difference is BA give a 25% mile bonus on my return flight which is Premium Economy whilst AA just give a 10% bonus. Both give the same for the Economy flight going out although I noticed you get a whole 5 Avios more if you fly on BA metal to Miami than if you fly on AA metal!

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