Originally Posted by
stephem
Yeah like me. You didn't read my post very carefully, I didn't say anything about earning AA Miles by flying British Airways. I did earned a lot of British airways miles that way though. [...] So I'm not so sure about your suggestion that somehow I'm not "entitled" to make redemptions with Cathay Pacific.
You used your BA miles to get premium award tickets for your entire family. If at the time BA miles/rewards were easier to obtain than Cathay miles/rewards, why should someone with Cathay miles NOT think that is unfair? Unfairness, not entitlement.
Originally Posted by
stephem
I'd also love to hear what you saw in your crystal ball about Citi, I really doubt that is going to happen.
Doug Parker indirectly addressed the issue during the last earnings call, with respect to a question about why AA was not banking as much of its fuel savings as United and Delta. One of the differences he cited was that AA had not renegotiated its credit card deal with Citi. That would be the deal that gave Citi all the cheap miles it has been giving away to churners and MS'ers.
On that note, the dAArk secret that your original post on the subject did not address is that a significant number of the posts in the Cathay Awards thread on the AA forum are made by grAAbbers who got the miles from churning credit cards and manufactured spend. I am not sure how aware members of Cathay's program are of that. Heck, I wish I wasn't aware of that because knowing that cheapens the Cathay product and makes a mockery of the conventional way of earning miles.