Originally Posted by
Cathay Boy
Dear veterans of MPO:
Currently my job allows me 55,000 miles travel per year. I've always been given the cold shoulder by MPO that refuse to upgrade me to Gold, and recently I've been reading how AA has a better mileage reward (such as 135,000 for First class!) Thus I want to check with you guys if I switched to AA - which lands me Platinum (One World Sapphire), would that be better for me?
Some awesome benefits I saw:
1) 500 miles upgrade with Full Y fare (Y is what my company pays for)
2) 100% elite mileage bonus
3) Pretty much all the benefits of One World Sapphire
Just want to know if MPO members here can correct me on what I may be missing if I stay with MPO. Thanks!
Despite this whole AA EXP thing bothering me as a CX DM (AA EXPs seem to fill up the HK F lounge when many CX DMs fly double or triple what they do to achieve similar status - and sometimes spend far more, upwards of 3-4x), you have every incentive to. You can't achieve GO on CX (also surprised they didn't bump you up with 55k), when you definitely will make OW Sapphire and possibly even OW Emerald becoming AA EXP if you fly enough full-fare Y or J. No need to be "loyal" to the program if you're going to be stuck on SL, especially given the enormous mileage benefits of the AA program versus CX.