Originally Posted by VegasGambler

Painless? It's fun!

I'm getting 3 RDM & LP (plus whatever my CC gives me) on all my non-travel, non-restaurant purchases and expenses (I use my regular travel and restaurant cards for those). It adds up fast.

Honestly I wonder how long this will last; it's way too generous. $250k spend on a DL card gets you a MQD waiver (you still need to fly the miles or segments) and $120k spend on UA card(s) gets you 5k PQP (out of 24k needed for 1K status starting next year). The fact that on AA you can get EXP by spending a few 10s of thousands of dollars with the right partners is really a very low bar compared to the competition.