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Old Oct 15, 2021 | 11:29 pm
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SKYEG
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Join Date: Feb 2012
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Originally Posted by js1993
What routes are you mostly flying? Why did you finish chasing EXP if you weren’t seeing benefits?
PHX/LAX. ORD/ATL/NYC for east coast. INTL right now is Caribbean, Central and South America. Rare Europe. AA rules the widebody market on all these. Company will pay for cheapest J, which is AA for my routes. I chased EXP mainly because I was super impressed with the deployment of widebodies on domestic routes and for the potential UG into them as EXP. Plus, historically it is the most prestigious status to have. Burn some AA miles on redemptions I never had access to. It's my first time with EXP. but I can't even clear out of YYC so now I have slight buyers remorse lol. I should have just fully credited to AS instead. I didn't realize this until I started to track every flight, as I was booking cheap J. I guess I'm not the only one haha. whoops. And not tracking UG inventory. Now that I have been, being a Canadian AA EXP out of YYC is not as glamorous as I thought it to be... Either way, I am still choosing to fly AA J because it's the best option. I will take a lie flat over ANYTHING. Too bad that it doesn't make sense to credit to AA. I'd like to ideally be top tier in the airline I fly the most. I want to keep finding reasons to stay… Cant believe im having issues because of cheap J fares. Lmao. I guess it’s a good problem to have.

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