Originally Posted by JonNYC
I'll pass. I know you must be bored out of your mind since OMNI closed, but I hardly think this is a productive exercise-- trying to panic people into thinking there's a chance that AAdvantage will be done away with. You can argue it with yourself. Hopefully, you'll have OMNI back soon after the election and we can be spared this kind of wanton silliness.
You pass and then pass.
[Contrary to your speculation about my being "bored out of [my] mind since OMNI closed", I am anything but bored since I have been busier for the months before OMNI closed and in the weeks after it closed.
Try again.]
AAdvantage is not going away anytime in the near future -- since the competitive landscape would not allow for such; however, it's anything but "wanton silliness" when the CEO of American Airlines says that AAdvantage served a "historical" purpose and was a good response "at the time" while noting that AAdvantage no longer distinguishes American Airlines today the way it did two decades ago and is not the competitive advantage it used to be. Do you think Arpey & Co. are going to be making AAdvantage a more generous program over the next year or two or do you think he will make it a less generous program by effecting creative changes that nickle and dime American's best customers?