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Old Feb 22, 2017 | 9:34 am
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transparent
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Originally Posted by flyalways
How does this policy help AA ? Isn't AA interested in reducing its SWU
obligations ? Also if there are two EXP waiting for upgrade and one is
ready to use SWU, should they not give preference to SWU using EXP ?
Again reducing the outstanding SWUs...
Probably because AA doesn't care about outstanding SWUs given they expire every year... it doesn't matter to them if we use them or not, unless it impacts how much we're willing to spend with the airline.
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