Originally Posted by
Herb687
Then that makes it a worse proposition for AA. Assuming that the award of LPs/RDMs has cost to AA, AA has an incentive to defer having to pay out on the benefit.
Huh?
AA is selling RDMs (/LPs) to its partners (CC and otherwise.) The idea is that selling those points outweighs whatever cost AA has through redemptions. That's pretty much the entire premise that the LP program is built on.