Needing only 50 SCs to retain my Gold status I thought no worries, return flights on American Airlines from Seattle to Montreal, flights from Seattle to London. After more than a month of wrangling with Qantas and AA because I didn't get any points credited, I discover that the points don't get credited to my FF account because they are a type of Economy flight (apparently the nasty letter 'Q') that Qantas very conveniently excludes from their little arrangement with AA. Of course, I didn't know this when booking my flights. I just thought that Economy airfares with AA were all fine. Didn't realise that there are 6 letters within economy that are fine and that there's one letter ('Q') which isn't. And of course when you book online with AA they don't tell you what letter it is that you're booking - you just choose Economy and book that. So now I'm feeling pissed with both AA and Qantas and I'm still 50 SCs short of retaining Gold, back living in Australia, and without plans for flying in the next couple of months. I feel like washing my hands from the lot of the coughs and their sneaky little schemes. :evil: