Originally Posted by
vasantn
I have already predicted here that this will happen eventually.
Absolutely. Law of unintended consequences and all that. Luckily I've been my own employer and employee for 20 years.
Who would have believed last year that AA would make it possible to earn even the highest-level earnable status purely through shopping and hotel stays? I have nearly 140K LPs right now with no flying.
Don't you need to have at least 30 segments? Honestly they've made this program confusing. My goal is to make PP (and not do extra trips for EXP), settle more for MCE now that food and booze are back, and buy first when I truly want first.
But yeah I get your point. Loyalty is no longer about patronizing the airline's course business.