Originally Posted by pete4212

You are making big assumptions. When AA pulled X/R inventory from EF, AA noted that it was being pulled from all channels, only one of which was EF. EF could have had a sanctioned connection to get the award data, but had that pulled as well since UA was removing the data from the UA website. The feed could have been powered by UA.com and when one was turned off so was the other to maintain parity (to our detriment).

As a scientist would say, correlation does not imply causation.