Originally Posted by
goMets101
Will it create more EXPs? Sure. How many more active EXPs will it create (those who have flown more than a handful of flights in the last few years)? Probably a negligible number. AA has all the numbers, I'm sure they've run many simulations compared against DL's and UA's thresholds.
Now that choices have been separated out from status, a LT EXP would still need to earn 175K LPs each year for the first 2 SWUs and then 75K more LPs for 4 more SWUs.
I fit this category. I retired in 2011 at 52 and hung up my traveling spurs with 6MM lifetime. The past few years have been only 2-3 trips a year, and as a LT PLT, it is so much different than all those years as PLT, then EXP when it became available, and finally CK the last 2 years, although I was only flying a bunch for one of them.
It's been OK but not great as a PLT being like number 45 on the upgrade list🤣
At only 65 now, I'm hoping we'll be able to take advantage of this coming perk. Still, we will be scheduling our travel at off-peak times to hopefully get upgrades domestically again and book in E-Plus for international and use mileage upgrades to Business when possible, but most importantly, now is OW Emerald.
I appreciate this move on AA's part for a career of flying American.
Advantage member since March, 19, 1981.