Originally Posted by
JLSocks
If you're in a market where AA has a decent presence, I'd suggest taking a hard look at them. This recent change just made AA look more appealing to me as a 1K, and given that ORD is my home base, it would be awfully easy to switch all of my business and personal spend over to AA. Right now the only thing keeping me with UA is E+. If that goes away, all of my years of loyalty to UA is gone.
Exactly my sentiment. I'm one of the EQS 1Ks (mostly domestic with a couple of TATL/TPAC a year). Even with E+ in place, if I don't hit 1K under new rules, benefits for Intl travel look better on AA (EXP). If anything happens to E+ it's a non-brainer. Even with it, I started comparing routes (but guessing it won't be hard at all from ORD).