“FFP”

The question is - what’s the point to a FFP. To incentivize further spend. Folks who spend $$$ on a few flights won’t care about premier status, because J and F come with benefits anyway, and schedule matters most. Wrong target market I think.

what the mileage based FFP does is identify fliers who generate non cyclic cash flow (I.e. fly a lot) — the first F in the acronym.

the second F implies flying. This credit card game going on for several years is insane. American is more like a holding company.

the last letter - P - implies that two are needed to tango. We work together. Reward me for spending my life in a metal tube. If American goes spend based, I’m going cheapest F any airline. in the latter case, as Queen of Coach says—“goodbye cruel airline”