Originally Posted by
metallo
What? Who told you there’s a $50k minimum?
$50k used to be the mininum Airpass spend (now $60k), but there is otherwise no published minimum for CK.
Airpass has nothing to do with CK status. Before Covid, $50K was the minimum needed to be considered for CK, but that didn't mean that everyone who spent that minimum was granted CK status. There are also plenty of government officials who aren't even close to spending $50K and AA has granted them CK status. AA will never publish the actual minimum and it changes every year because AA likes to keep a certain % of flyers in each loyalty tier.