about the domestic one, I believe they again just did the typical AS-think: those partner rates are the worst on the planet, we need to bump those numbers up, now we have industry leading numbers. Yay!
(5 minutes later) wait won't that make AA significantly more attractive to buy than our own flight, oh crap, gotta change it! Let's uhhhh do it to international only!
IT department: oh no.
CS department: OH NO.
Canadian/Mexico members: OHHHH YESSSS