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Old Feb 16, 2019 | 12:17 pm
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Originally Posted by ukchris
First, thank you, I did read that and when I googled "what continent is curacao in" it appears it is classified as being South America, maybe... Brittanica says "Although physiographically part of the South American continental shelf, Curaçao and neighbouring islands off the northern coast of South America are usually considered to constitute the southwestern arc of the Lesser Antilles." which is far from exact of course, either it is in South America or it's the Lesser Antilles, even if it's the Lesser Antilles that seems to be considered to be on the edge of the South American continental shelf.

I guess it all comes down to AA's opinion of what continent they reside within!
You can put the encyclopedias away: the AAdvantage program has "regions," and Curacao is in AA's Caribbean region:

https://www.aa.com/i18n/aadvantage-p...ward-chart.jsp

(Scroll down to, and click on, "Region Definitions.")
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