Originally Posted by brobab

I don't see where AA would move you back to Plat. You did not qualify for Plat in the current plan year. US Gold is not automatically equivalent to AA Plat even though the thresholds are the same. This is going to be their difficulty, merging a three tier program with a four tier program. If every US Gold becomes AA Plat, then what do the US Plat's become - because there should be no way they become AA EXP. I suspect that they will keep a four tier approach - just my guess - or else they will seriously devalue all of the credit card folks who got a card just to be silver.