Originally Posted by
Jacobin777
It sounds like about 40% of your 2.6MM has been through non-flying. For me, though I'm only close to 1MM, 90%-95% of it has been via BIS so I actually support this new move by AA as it makes it a bit more "exclusive"...
How do you figure that? Didn't you receive elite status bonus miles that are counted in your total as well - 100% for Plat? Or did you accumulate all of the almost 1MM without ever reaching elite status? Even the fliers that didn't accumulate miles outside of flying still accumulated about half their miles via elite status bonuses (assuming elite status, of course).