Originally Posted by JGR01

Here we go again.

By bending the rules and having a non North American address as your AAdvantage adress (should be for a bunch of months before and after the threshold) will currently get you 4(?) eVIPs (controlled capacity confirmable upgrade worldwide on AA to next class) when you cross 1MM. If you have a North American address you get some 500-mile stickers (do not recall the number). 2MM and above ALL get the eVIPs.

AA's logic (and this entire MM program is undocumented and not published by AA anywhere) is that non North American fliers are mainly international fliers who would not use the stickers. Tho at 2MM and above they just reward you and say 'thanks'.

But by bending these rules (as other posts have discussed) MAY be caught by AA and you would loose out and just get stickers. We do not know if the MM program will continue or if they will raise the limit to 2MM being the base .. or what MAY happen in the next 12-18 months. There are getting to be so many 1MM's who complain or bend the rules that AA may just give up and raise the limit to 2MM ...

BTW .. the eVIPs are nice but not once what they were. With Yield Management controlling inventory so much more (new program to not release C inventory until there are sold seats and such) .. the eVIP advance confirmability gets to be really dicey. I looked for Thanksgiving weekend for Japan and found no availability .. tho the cabin was totally empty.