I recently discovered that one cannot fly AA or BA two/from the USA and UK and earn miles. Thus, if I were to fly BA to the UK and back I could not earn AA miles.

http://www.oneworld.com/ow/ffp/earni...edeeming-miles

Is there any possibility of this changing?

Is there any possibility of earning *at least* the one mile per $1 spent with one's AAdvantage credit or debit card?

That rule has been in effect for years and AA will PROBABLY NEVER CHANG it as long as they have their own flights to/from the UK. The only way you can earn miles on a BA flight between North America and the UK is to take a BA flight from a city in Canada.

Not sure if I understand your second question but if you are an AAdvantage Member and have a Citibank AAdvantage Credit Card you get one AAdvantage mile for every $1 you spend. Depending on your AAdvantage Elite Status (None, Gold, Platinum, Executive Platinum) there are limits to the amount of miles you can accumulate from credit card spending in a claendar year. I don't believe there is an AAdvantage Debit Card.

There is an AAdvantage debit card now available with Citibank.

My credit is really bad (because of my college days), but I am seriously considering setting up a Citibank account so I can have this.

I checked, you can get details about the AAdvantage Debit Card at: www.aa.com

For the Basic Card you earn 1 mile for every $2 spent (up to 60,000 miles per year) on "signature based purchases". There is a fee of $25 per year. For the Premium Card you earn 1 mile for every $1 spent on "signature based purchases" with a limit of 100,000 miles per year. Annual Fee is $65

I meant to add that you don't earn miles for cash advances or cash withdrawals.

Actually there's a lot of buzz going around that Bermuda II (the agreement that created the BA/AA mileage idiocy) may not be long for the world, consistent with "open skies" leading to more access to LHR, which was the original source of the ban (UA, AA and BA had a near monopoly on transatlantic slots at LHR.)

I'm not holding my breath meanwhile; however it hardly matters since we're avoiding London airports and BA as much as possible at the moment, unrelated to mileage earning.

One World is a Swiss-cheese sort of alliance at best. At present, you only get 1/2 credit for flying Qantas (and, of course, no such thing as an award upgrade.)

just to fine-tune A_Traveller, you won't get AA mileage for flying BA flights between US and UK. (ie, Canada-UK does count.)

However, you won't get BA miles for flying AA <b>transatlantic</b> flights.

and a to fine tune your post....

There are 2 exceptions:

1. AA codeshare operated by BA from JFK to MAN - full AA miles as per AA rules

2. BA codeshare operated by AA from ORD to MAN - full BA miles as per BA rules.

Only codeshare flight number counts. If your ticket shows BA flight number between JFK and MAN then it's back to &quot;no miles for you&quot;. Same for the AA flight from ORD to MAN. If the ticket shows AA flight number then zero BA miles.