Originally Posted by
GUWonder
"Do most airline-affiliated card applicants really apply for airline-affiliated cards for airlines which they've never flown before applying for the airline affiliated bank card and/or which they've flown less than the average airline program account member? I would doubt that too when it comes to AA."
I think this question also depends on how you define "the average member." With 67 million AA accounts it's probably 60-70% that haven't flown in the past year or have only flown a few thousand miles. So by that the average member might mean someone who takes one or two flights a year.
When you start looking into average members who also redeem award miles you're going into a different subset that probably flies at least once a month.
From the datapoints I've seen there's loads of people on the trAAin who probably fly AA very infrequently, anywhere from 0-3 times per year.