"Here's the deal" on AA historical records.
I recall a contact with the individual who is, ironically, the AA Records Custodian, exactly one year ago. Essentially:
AA can send out 18 months of past summaries, combined into one report. This takes 2-3 weeks to receive because an outsourced vendor recovers and prints the report.
Beyond 18 months all that can be provided are screen prints of the data that is in the system. As of February 2008 (when we had the conversation - JD), that was Jan 2005 - current. Each year they remove the oldest year and it is migrated off the system, so that would mean January 2006 today.
AA also has in most cases 2003, 2004 and 2005 on microfiche, and can print out the requisite panes. There are fees associated with this, so I doubt anyone will do this merely to satisfy their curiosity - but if you need the data, it's there (e.g establish you were out of the country on April 15 for the IRS, or in the country for CBP, etc.)
I hope this helps. As HNL said, start by contacting AA Customer Service.
Last edited by JDiver; Mar 3, 2010 at 3:26 pm
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