Originally Posted by
Cooper21
I guess what I don't get is that if you are going to continue to fly US metal next year, then Platinum still means Platinum for nearly all of the year, or until the merge. You'll get stickers for the >500 mi AA flights. My point is that plat still has a lot of value.
Where are you getting that?
My understanding is that we'll all be lumped into our respective places in AA's tiers. However, upgrades will still function much as they do now on US metal until late next year.
I think the only priority a DM plat would receive is based on US tiebreakers with total BIS mile calculation. In theory, a 75k flyer would be upgraded before a 55k flyer. Other than that, though, I fail to see what other benefits will be kept for existing DM plats.