My greatest complaint about the sales pitch is the "If you sign up with the flight you will earn 60,000 bonus miles which is more than enough for 2 round trip tickets anywhere in the United States or
the Caribbean". Last month one RT ticket ORD-STL two weeks out cost me 40,000 miles unless I wanted the red eye.

AA and all the airlines have so diluted their programs and made it so difficult to use award miles for decent flight that many of us would rather pay than play the game. The inflight sales pitch sounds to me to
be somewhat misleading but that's just me. I am killing my Citicard prior to my anniversary date.