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Old Nov 24, 2022 | 10:11 pm
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Originally Posted by Herb687
Apparently so. But I still don't see how a Mar-Feb program year when the rest of the points and miles world is on a Jan-Dec year really helps passengers or AA.

Complexity for the sake of complexity. At least rolling 12 months would have been a true point of differentiation.

Oh well. I will still be sitting up front regardless of what status I earn and when!
You're getting points from credit card spend. AA wants to make sure that spend over the holiday period counts for the year you spend it, not the next qualifying year, which would happen if the qualifying period starts 1/1.
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