Originally Posted by
newyorkgeorge
On an Award ticket you are redeeming miles for travel. Why in the world would AA award MM? When you buy something at 50% off at a department store does the department store credit the entire retail price to an awards program? Or you have buy one, get one free does the department store award you two purchases?
I think if anything MM will ultimately turn into a dollar spend program rather than miles flown.
A very long time ago, IIRC when one redeemed their miles, there was at least one or more FF programs that would actually credit the FF account with a decent sum (something like the Barclay/Citi's 10% back on redemptions up to 10K in a given year) with the thought that if you were cashing out, by not having to start from scratch there was incentive to continue accruing with them going forward. This was well before my time so someone wiser and with better memory will surely know more and aside from the Citi/Barclay program, I'm not aware that this has existed for many many many years.