Originally Posted by JDiver

AFAIK, the program has always been flogged as "lifetime" - AAdvantage member or the program's. (Frankly, AA would have had to have very lame lawyers and wordsmiths to not frame it in this way.)

As to adding a 75k level, it's certainly possible - but would of course be in conflict with oneworld tiers (and BA recently added BAEC "Bronze" precisely because they were out of compliance with no recognition for oneworld Ruby).