American AAdvantage has launched a noteworthy targeted promotion that incentivizes award flights. I can’t help but wonder about the long term implications of this…
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AA's Management is so out of touch I do see them trying to move AAdvantage more toward SkyMiles and MileagePlus. I feel like Vasu (for all his faults) was the last one standing who recognized the value of AAdvantage- probably because he realized AA can't really compete on product so they had to lean on the loyalty program. Now that he's gone, who knows what is going to happen.
ExPlat here, at 280,000 LP on the year, and I was not "targeted" for this promotion... talk about miffed!
Exces want to get points off their books. I'm dumping my Barclays Silver card, racking up miles with an AA card just isn't worth it any more. The whole program is a hot pile of garbage and I don't trust anyone in the C suite. I'm not sure they could care any less about peoples loyalty.
Got the email... of course it is three days after I booked an award ticket that is no longer still available. Cest la vie.
I got 15% of my points back, unfortunately, I booked 2 days ago and its more than 15% higher today.
I got the up to 200K LP bonus. Really not any use (not sure do the LP also turn into RDMs?) as I'll soon hit 250K LP for that level reward but won't hit 400K LP, the next level.
"Only award travel on American and American Eagle qualifies, and not award travel on partner airlines"
That's a hard pass for me!
I'm Gold for a couple of years now but I opened the app and it doesn't appear that I am targeted for this promotion, at least for now?
"Award" flights, are not free, they are paid with hard earned miles, who are not free either. Since miles are in fact a currency ( proof being you even have to pay taxes on them ), they should be equally considered as ony other currency when used to PAY for flights.
Delta is again offering MQDs for bookings through its hotel portal, which is great. BUT, the problem with the Delta offer and this AA offer is that they benefit the last-minute traveler. Award pricing and availability being what they are, my sense is that seasoned robust travelers have trips beyond the 45-day or 90-day window in these offers. Ben thinks these might become more broad-based, which is great. But, until then, I see limited benefit.
Before I read this posting, I was feeling bad because my offer was "only" 50 LPs.
BTW, I'm currently PP (down from EP last year).