Earn and redeem on QR - including elite credit

Flights on QR can now be credited to AAdvantage accounts. This includes elite credit, even though QR is not yet in oneworld. That's a nice little bonus a few weeks earlier than expected.

Read more:
http://blog.wandr.me/2013/09/reciprocity-in-place-for-american-airlines-and-qatar-airways/
http://www.aa.com/i18n/AAdvantage/earnMiles/travel/airlines/qatar.jsp

 

The quote above and the quote on your page:

"...In addition, travel on Qatar Airways flights will count toward elite status qualification."

Where is that from? Maybe I'm missing the obvious, but is there a link that contains that quote/information? Or was that information forwarded to you directly (since, as you point out, it clearly contradicts the info on AA.com.) Thanks!

 

http://www.aa.com/i18n/urls/qatar-oneworld.jsp?anchorLocation=DirectURL&title=qatar

ETA: Scratch that...looks like they edited the page and didn't tell anyone. Booooo.

 

Well it -will- count. That doesn't mean it does now.

 

Of course it will. The "special" bit here is that when they initially released the page it included the text I quoted above. And then they went back and edited it without so much as a peep.

Not really a surprise that it doesn't earn elite credit yet as that's keeping with historical patterns, but it was "news" that when they initially announced it the elite earning WAS in there.