Originally Posted by
rbAA
As far as awards, I see some issues, but it is more a matter of lower capacity and more mileage balances generated with coins, credit cards etc, putting more miles into the system. That said, I still find award space that meets my needs, being flexible.
Me too and these really are the salad days for FFers-cheap miles and good if not great availability to use them.
I wonder where things go in a year or two. Many people with fat FF accounts seeking to use them-I think of Mr. Pickles as the poster boy here, as I recall he claims to have 1.7 million AA miles and to have never set foot on an AA aircraft.
So do you think AA will just allow Mr. Pickles et al to take all of the available award flights? If so, how does AA use AAdvantage to get people to buy tickets and fly using them?
Good questions, with uncertain answers to come.
P.S. Lest anyone think I am being critical of Mr. Pickles, au contraire. I rarely laugh harder than when I'm reading one of his great schemes. He's one of the funniest people I media today to me-somewhere below Steven Colbert but certainly above Larry Kudlow and Kathy Lee.