Originally Posted by
Flying for Fun
Valid points, I am just illustrating that there is still opportunity to accrue AS Mileage Plan miles and obtain Elite Status using AA international flights as many believe the AA partnership is dead.
AS miles are more valuable than AA miles so it makes sense to accrue them especially if you are already an AA Elite. I have recently booked CX J awards;
YVR-HKG//HKG-DPS 50K
JNB-HKG//HKG-BOS 62.5K
How many AAdvantage miles would you need for these awards? I will be stopping over in Hong Kong in both directions. Oh yeah! AA doesn't allow stopovers.
James
There seems to be so philosophical differences here. There are significant values in network airline ff aside from miles. If miles is so important, why not just utilize chase ultimate reward or one of the other travel credit card which offers far more flexibility and availablility in booking?
With AA EXP, I have been able to get frequent upgrades on Cathay from PE to J and J to F. I have gotten at least 4 or 5 such upgrades in the past year.
That's not something AS miles can do. Even if I don't get upgraded, I still got extra leg room seat on other OW airlines.
And I have been able to use first class lounge at HKG and HND without having to shell out more money.
The extra EQMs on AA allows for more SWUs. I book a R/T trips to Spain with my wife for a total of under $1000 and we got upgraded to J on every direction. The extra EQD also allows for better upgrade priority on AA which is important for getting on premium transcon routes. I very rarely miss upgrades.
As for miles usage, I got F award for my wife from HND to NYC for 72000 miles after the 10% back with AA card.
Originally Posted by
milypan
Per the investor slide deck following the merger announcement, AS+VX have 16% share vs AA’s 12% share. UA has 46%.
That sounds right. I took my number from
http://media.flysfo.com.s3.amazonaws...port_Final.pdf
where both VX and AA are 9% from July 2015 to June 2016.
But obviously AS/VX has grown a lot since.