Ensuring QF status credits on AA Codeshares on Alaskan?

[beardoc]

I'm currently in the middle of a DONE4 and doing an additional status credit run SEA-LAX-SFO-LAX-SEA on AA codeshare with Alaskan Airlines, booked directly through AA.

The flights are (as shown in my AA Reservations area):

AMERICAN AIRLINES OPERATED BY ALASKA AIRLINES 6764 SEA - LAX
AMERICAN AIRLINES 793 LAX - SFO

AMERICAN AIRLINES 1923 SFO - LAX
AMERICAN AIRLINES OPERATED BY ALASKA AIRLINES 6785 LAX - SEA

This is how they appear under the my AA Reservations.

However, I've just gone to check in with AA to print boarding passes, and they won't check me in - they say that I should check in directly with the Operating Carrier (in this case, Alaskan).

I have gone to the online check in of Alaskan Airlines, and when I go to check in, it doesn't come up with the AA codeshare numbers - instead, online checkin shows:

AS454 SEA-LAX
AA793 LAX-SFO

I'm concerned if I go for the AS checkin, they'll credit it as the AS454 directly (so no QF SCs and points), rather than the AA6764 codeshare.

How do you ensure that this is credited directly? Do you check in at the airport and ask that they ensure this is on AA6764 at the airport rather than AS454? Is there likely to be any problems in doing this? Or am I worrying too much?

Thanks guys - I appreciate any help!

 

[TheInsider]

Just quickly, AS gets points but no SC's.. Just check-in and see if it has an AA flight number anywhere.

 

[beardoc]

Just quickly, AS gets points but no SC's.. Just check-in and see if it has an AA flight number anywhere.

It's the SCs that I'm after - I care about the points less (although they get the 100% WP bonus if they're the AA number, so that's a bonus).

If I check in and it's an AS flight number (AS454), how difficult is it to get them to reprint the boarding pass with the AA flight number AA6764?

 

[TheInsider]

If I check in and it's an AS flight number (AS454), how difficult is it to get them to reprint the boarding pass with the AA flight number AA6764?

If it's not booked as an AA flight, then impossible. Otherwise you need to speak to the ticketing carrier.

 

[mannej]

I always thought when on codeshare, the BP comes up as the actual flight number. Well FJ and JQ do it that way. My JQ codeshare on QF came up as QF574 sold as JQ6574.
I don't know if AA/AS work the same.

 

[Lendav Orav]

yes the boarding pass will show the operating flight number and usually also the "sold as". As long as you were originally booked on the AA flight number you will get both SCs and points. I'm wondering how you got to fly on AS codeshares on a oneworld though? I'm pretty sure flights on oneworld tickets have to marketed and operated by a oneworld carrier. In any case, if they've ticketed it, you should be fine.

 

[serfty]

The BP's definitely show the AS flight number ... and more importantly, F class. This enables access to the 'Alaska Boardroom' lounge.

You E-ticket is important here. If it has an AA flight number (even if operated by AS) then First Class SC's have always posted for me - and quite quickly.

 

[serfty]

... I'm wondering how you got to fly on AS codeshares on a oneworld though? I'm pretty sure flights on oneworld tickets have to marketed and operated by a oneworld carrier. In any case, if they've ticketed it, you should be fine.

Qantas earning on AA flight numbers are as ticketed.

Frequent Flyer - About the Program - Terms & Conditions

The QFF Earning table has no specific SC exclusions for codeshares with American Airlines Flight Numbers:

American Airlines® (AA)

Status Credits are earned on all eligible booking classes.​

Contrast this to that for Iberia:

Iberia (IB)

Status Credits are earned on all eligible booking classes.
Excluded: Points and Status Credits are not earned on Codeshare Flights operated by airlines other than oneworld® alliance airlines.​

 

[beardoc]

Thanks everyone - we'll see what turns up on the boarding pass in about 3.5 hours from now - about to drive from Portland OR through the night to arrive at SEA at 4am to check in.

Just to allay any confusion:

* I'm on a DONE4 but this is an additional flight booked through AA.com, so not part of the DONE4
* This was most definitely booked/ticketed with AA flight numbers through AA.com - so at no time was the AS flight numbers anywhere near the booking - I was just worried that when the AS flight numbers started appearing on the web check-in boarding passes that something was going to fail.

I'll look for the "sold as" thing on the boarding pass when I check in at SEA and I'll talk to AS staff when I get there.

 

[Storyteller]

These are flights I take a few times a year.
Usually I can only get the boarding pass for flights where AS is the operating carrier from AS. A couple of times some years ago I got them from AA, & I think that may have been in one of the lounges where someone really knew her way around a computer. Not recently though. There was also a wonderful AA check-in agent at SEA who knew how to get her BP machine humming.

As Serfty said, the BP will show it as an AS flight. They rarely show my QFF #. I have wasted a lot of time trying to get these fixed on the spot to no avail.

After stressing out on several occasions I have now learned that it will all work out eventually because:
a) it will post correctly as AA with points & SC withing a couple of days; or
b) it will post as AS with only points; or
c) it won't post at all.

If it is b) or c), a quick phone call to QF sometimes fixes it, or if not able to do it this way, I email in my eTicket showing that it was purchased with an AA flight #, & request it be credited accordingly. All fixed in a couple of days.

 

[beardoc]

Thanks everyone for your advice - fortunately the flights have posted with the AA codeshare numbers in my QFF account and I have all the points and status credits now for these flights. It's not the best status credit run I've done recently, but on this occasion, it was perfect because I was in SEA and really wanted to stop by SFO.

Hopefully I'll make use of this a few times in future!

 

[Kefci2000]

The BP's definitely show the AS flight number ... and more importantly, F class. This enables access to the 'Alaska Boardroom' lounge.

You E-ticket is important here. If it has an AA flight number (even if operated by AS) then First Class SC's have always posted for me - and quite quickly.

Serfty, can you clarify if a "First" (auto upgrade as no Business class product offered) ticket purchased as a DONE4 J class will get F or J SC?? Not Alaskan...just AA

Thanks Peter

 

[serfty]

Serfty, can you clarify if a "First" (auto upgrade as no Business class product offered) ticket purchased as a DONE4 J class will get F or J SC?? Not Alaskan...just AA

Thanks Peter

If booked onto A class on an AA flight number then it should credit as First Class.

This does not always occur correctly, so keep those BPs until it's all credited correctly.