Normally I'd post this on the Newsstand, but I wanted to focus on a very small quip in this story directly related to AA, so I'm hoping the mods will keep this in the AA forum.

First, the article link. Now, the relevant quote: "Number of round trips to the moon represented by American Airlines' 587-billion miles outstanding: 1.2 million".

587 billion miles outstanding! While that seems like a lot, it's:

• less than 100 miles for every person on the planet
• one MileSAAver award for every 145 people in the world
• one standard domestic award for every 290 people in the world

Focusing on the US, it's 1912 miles for each person in the US. Still doesn't seem like a lot. But the number is huge! That's 5.8 million accounts if they each had 100,000 miles in them... and that's probably too large for the mean or median account.

Just thought I'd throw this out there. And of course at 1.5 cpm that's 8.8 BILLION dollars in liabilities on the balance sheet...

Thoughts?