Originally Posted by
notquiteaff
Is this something that has historically changed frequently, or was it 3 miles/$ for a long time and now is and will likely remain at 1 mile/$? (I realize it’s hard to make predictions, especially about the future)
it has changed - so definitely no promises made to remain 3X, but this was just a bummer because giftcards.com had only recently come back to the AAdvantage shopping portal a few weeks ago at 3X after being absent from it entirely from some time, and myself and a lot of others had already mentally made plans to use the 3X over the next 3 months+ as part of a strategy to hit levels of the Instant Status Pass challenge (I’ve seen it as the expected source of half or more of the points needed over 4 month challenge period to maintain or increase status…) so it throws a bit of a wrench in that plan - moral of the story = don’t make any long term (or even medium term) assumptions about what opportunities will exist and for how long!