Originally Posted by
Herb687
Why? AA has clearly shown it wants to make everyone elite. Or at least dangle enough carrots to where people pay lots of extra money to AA to be elite, hoping they never engage in self-reflection along the lines of "what happens when everyone is elite?"
Especially now that AA (along with DL and UA) are doing everything they can to sell the F cabin… I would say the main benefit of AA status now is oneworld emerald or sapphire status, especially since oneworld has such generous lounge access policies compared to Star and SkyTeam.