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Dec 3, 2019 | 3:03 pm

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dickinson

Join Date: Oct 2006

Programs: AA EXP

Posts: 1,648

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Originally Posted by AA100k

Anytime awards in premium cabin international business class are always available albeit for twice the normal mileage of a Saver award. If you’re getting large quantities of miles for free through CC Signup bonuses every month, then it’s not a big deal “paying” for Anytime awards, thus depleting inventory that may otherwise have sold or been made available for upgrades. If AA wasn’t losing money on these schemes, I doubt they’d be closing these accounts.

This portion of a post on the Citi credit card board that was put up today supports your theory:
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But if I'd listened to the warnings I read here over the years, DW and I would have missed out on over a Million miles each. Not just the miles in our accounts now, but the miles we've already used for FC Anytime TATL flights every year for the past 9 years.