With all the bloviating among BA blogs and others about the horrible, no good, very bad changes with AAdvantage, I appreciated this straightforward post from Seth, in particular this snippet:
Boarding Area alone has had 20 posts about the changes since announced earlier this week by 13 writers (21 & 14 now, I suppose). Apparently the changes are so massive that it needed multi-part, detailed analysis on why to leave, quickly followed by why to stay. Which is just stupid. All that hype, so little substance. Yes, the changes do matter for many passengers. But doing the math on where you fall in the spend v earn scale is really easy.
http://blog.wandr.me/2016/06/thought...program-rules/