Originally Posted by
Dave Noble
Where those travelling in what, anywhere else, would not be classed as 1st class ( and even AA doesn't call it 1st class internationally ) , I don't see that calling a status run deliberately taking advantage of this oddity a scam as being that unfair
AA's 1st class fares can be pretty cheap these days ; at one time they were expensive, but now a r/t from ORD-BOS , for example, is $455 yet earns 180 status credits; cheaper than Qantas charges for a flexible economy from SYD-MEL that earns 40 status credits
If I fly from LA to the Caribbean on AA in first class because I want to go to the Caribbean and as a consequence earn a load of status credits I assume that is not a scam. I'm responding to AA marketing in the way they want me to. If I do the same thing in order to get the SCs to maintain my status then that becomes a scam? The logic of that escapes me.