Love the thread. Am disloyal to a bunch of non-*A airlines. Mainly the ones that fly convenient routes for my occasional trips to non-*A hubs or to places UA/US/CO do not fly nonstop. So I have bits and bops of miles on AA, DL, VX that add up over time. And I use those miles for various things like this year I got a OW F ticket on AA for 50K miles transcon to attend a family event. Also used about 50K DL miles for RT coach ticket for Mr BT2 on a route that would have cost over 1K $$ had we paid for the ticket. Once upon a time I was the lowest tier on AA and had an admiral's club membership but that was many years ago in Chicago and they don't fly enough nonstops to my places right now for me to sink time into them from LAX.