Originally Posted by
joe_miami
Because people have been listing their histories. It also makes sense that people who fly AA a lot would be less in need of miles and/or less likely to jeopardize their AA account.
The people who publicly list or even privately share their histories may or may not be representative of all impacted and what has gone on.
People who never flew AA have probably been less in the market for AA bank cards than people who have flown AA before. Getting people to sign-up for a bank card when not having a previous affiliation or close-up awareness of a brand is a harder sell than when the brand is in your face and has been before. If you go trying to sign-up people in Michigan for a Norwegian Air-affiliated bank card, I am guessing it would be a lot harder to get as many applicants to complete the application than with some new type of Delta-affiliated bank card which the prospects have not had before. Dangling out a bank card mileage bonus of an airline you fly is an easier sell than dangling out a bank card mileage bonus for some airline you don't have locally and don't even recognize. Of course there are people who may sign up for a made-up Air Gullible card, but the plural of anecdote is not empirical.