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Old Jan 14, 2015 | 5:04 pm
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Originally Posted by olouie
Keep fly AA and not Delta or United and AA will likely see enough benefit it keep it this way unless Wall Street starts to hammer them to make more money. But if enough flyers change over to AA it should be some incentive to keep it up.
All that does is shift low-spend, high frequency fliers from UA & DL to AA, while UA & DL keep the HVC's. A bad deal for AA.

I predict that the 2016 program, 2017 at the latest, will be revenue-based and if AA is smart, more directly related to revenue than UA and DL.
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