yeah but the idea of an airline wanting to be a cash OTA is unheard of. No airline has said you should get all your flying needs in cash from their site, except AS. No airline has punished you like this for buying partner tickets on partner sites, except AS. If AA DL UA BA LH AF all have not even dared to claim that, in what myopic delusion did AS smoke for them to attempt so?
AS has neither the IT nor the CS to be an OTA, and yet they want to juggle crediting miles as an OTA on top of that? Whatever they were smoking in that C-suite, I want some.