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Old Oct 28, 2021 | 2:44 pm
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Originally Posted by LovePrunes
i dont think there's enough elite-earning flyers that AA is using these changes to get anyone lured into anything. It's simply a change recognizing the importance of their financial partners in AA's bottom line that wasn't accounted for before. AA is pimping credit cards and credit card transactions. SHOCKER.
It's not a change in direction as much as it's an acceleration in the direction and the extremeness of a path it was already on. Now, AA is hyper-pimping that which it recognized, exploited and was already pimping before this latest development.

Lure/bait & hook.
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