Originally Posted by
Kacee
As someone who's earned 75K largely on CX, JL, and EK premium cabin flights, I'm shocked that AS is making it easier, as it was pretty darn easy already. I guess that adding the AS minimum segments balances that out slightly.
The difficulty for me will be choosing between AA and AS for 2021. One of the challenges AS faces is that the change fee waiver for Gold and higher is no longer the unique, high-value benefit it used to be.
Same issue, with the loss of the waiver for gold+, I don't have much of a need to split status to AS, while AA has now made OWE easier, where I only need to obtain PP than EXP, plus you can still get SWUs. I just wonder if for 2022 (thinking long term) if they start reinstating that benefit. But even then, if nothing changes qualifying wise, MVPG/75K + PP/EXP is easier than before.