Originally Posted by
MrMoist
Back in 2019, American Airlines & Citi bank shut down thousands of accounts for credit card abuse. I churned like 3 of those credit cards, and accumulated 140k points, but my account was never shut down. All 3 of those cards had organic spending on them to meet the MS requirements (probably why I wasn't automatically banned).
Now, 4 years later, I want to spend those points. I booked an economy roundtrip flight Dallas -> Tokyo, what's the likely hood that my confirmed flight gets cancelled and my account gets shutdown? I haven't had any AA activity since 2019.
I ask because back in 2019, many of my friends all had their flights cancelled a couple days before their trip and their account banned.
Realistically speaking, if your account was not shut down back then, and AA has allowed it to exist for the past 4 years, and you were able to book the tickets now without any issue, then I'd say it's highly unlikely anything negative will happen to your account or those tickets going forward. But of course no one here can absolutely guarantee that.
Originally Posted by
guv1976
You say that you haven't had any "AA" activity since 2019. Have you had any AAdvantage activity -- earning or redeeming -- since then? If not, your miles should have expired by now.
Good point, although if the OP kept at least one of those card accounts open then the miles would never expire.