Originally Posted by
HeadInTheClouds
Case in point. People might be SHOCKED to hear it, but AA.com's mileage functions go down once a month for maintenance in the middle of the night on Saturday too! But somehow, it's not a new thread every time it happens.
A scheduled few-hour maintenance is in no way comparable to an 8 months outage of *A upgrade awards, and a 22+ days lasting crippled sponsor upgrade functionality

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