Originally Posted by
aznshrek88
Originally Posted by
sdsearch
They stopped the latter (buliding your way to lifetime platinum) in Dec 2011. They never had any way to get annual status (platinum or EXP) from credit card spend before.
There's a $450 annual fee (not waivable) AA MC "World Elite" card which can help a little bit with elite status. But it's not clear to me that it can help more than $450 worth of MRs (especially in January 2012!) would...
So if you accumulate points on an AA CC what are those points for?
First of all, AA has something they call points, and you can't (and never were able to) accumulate them on any AA CC.
It's
miles you accumulate on AA CC.
And just like with any other airline CC, the miles can be used for award fligths and for upgrades, among other things. AA miles can also be used for hotel and car rentals, complete vacation packages, as well as (at the lowest end) magazine subscriptions.
If you have the $450 annual fee version, that also earns you
some elite qualifying miles, I think. But not a whole lot, and you have to spend quite a bit to get them.
I'm not sure if that's what you were asking or not. (Your question was a little unclear to me.)