Originally Posted by
jinglish
Status doesn't come close to telling the whole story. The 75K who only buys coach tickets (or travels mainly on partner airlines) and sneaks through to requalification through transcon mileage runs on R fares is going to show up differently in internal metrics than the one who's booking F at the last minute.
so your preference for AS is to convert their business model to a spend based status system and away from the miles flown and or segments flown similar to Delta.