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Jan 3, 2014, 10:27 pm

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grahampros

Join Date: Dec 2006

Location: ORD

Programs: AA EXP,2MM, DL Gold,Starwood PLT

Posts: 3,876

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Originally Posted by Often1

If you fly out of MHT, your sole option as between US & AA is to earn on US anyway. So, you might as well obtain your DM# and start using it as you fly.

There is no way of predicting exactly how and what the new AA will match, but it really doesn't matter since you don't have options anyway. While it's unlikely that the new AA will match US Gold to AA Silver, if that happens, you really wouldn't have done anything differently anyway.

It is possible that the new AA will offer some form of match to UA elites as part of the new 3-way tug-o-war with UA & DL, but that's speculation and since you're only UA Gold, that likely won't help much given your intended travel pattern.

Nonetheless, as announcements are made regarding the new program, make a point of reading them carefully (and then reading them again).

AA does not have Silver.. it's Gold, Platinum and Executive Platinum in the current program. What will have to be resolved ( and we don't know yet how it will go) is matching a 4 tier program to the current 3 tier AAdvantage program that will be the surviving program.

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