Originally Posted by
js1993
It's not unintended if it's plainly foreseeable.
There's no chance of this idea happening. People already get LP for anything they charge to their AA CC, but AA isn't going to get into the business of having people assign or disclaim LP from actual flying. It would be an administrative nightmare, plus AA would upset millions of business travelers. And even if it was as simple as "the buyer gets all LP for everything," the CEO of Deloitte having 20 bazillion LP wouldn't do AA any good.
Exactly. The reason that this won't happen is that the whole point of loyalty programs (or at least one of the main reasons that they exist) is to give kickbacks to people who travel using OPM and have their choice of airline.