Originally Posted by
cova
People with over 25MM are likely not good AA customers. They are people who churned on CC signup bonuses (I know of people you have gotten 2,000 credit cards) and did lots of manufactured spending. These games are no longer allowed as you can get kicked out of AAdvantage if you do. No way that people with 25MM or 75MM (of which there are some) earned that with BIS miles.
I would bet there are not many with CK status that are over 5MM - and certainly not 75MM.
CK with 8.9M lifetime miles. I don’t know how to figure out how much was credit card spend pre-2011 but before CK, I was EXP every year since they added that level. The math on 5M BIS miles is pretty staggering. It’s once a month DFW-LHR round trips for almost 44 years.