View Poll Results: Will you be sticking with AA for your 2014 flying?
Definitely, I haven't seen enough to make me change
152
71.03%
Undecided, I plan to wait and see how things settle out
48
22.43%
No, I have decided to plant my flag elsewhere for next year
14
6.54%
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Stick with AA for 2014 or not
Aug 21, 2013, 5:38 pm
#46
Join Date: Aug 2010
Programs: AA 1.6MM EXP; UA GS; SPG LTG,Hilton Gold, Marriott Gold
Posts: 1,477
Absolutely staying
Hedging bets on UA (given proximity to SFO) but will do my best to requalify for EXP again in 14. Even more so now that the DOJ has seen fit to challenge (and hopefully torpedo) the merger!
Aug 21, 2013, 7:06 pm
#47
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: world
Programs: all
Posts: 1,422
gonna stay with AA
Aug 21, 2013, 7:21 pm
#48
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: country Western Australia
Programs: QF SG(LTS) - AA LTG(1MM)
Posts: 2,771
The biggest issues I have in the decision process are the AA removal of the "soft landing" and finally earning LTG. I am too far along with mileage credit (for PLT) this year to change and I certainly will not be leaving OW. But earning in 2014 for 2015 is "up in the air".
But being based much closer to HKG than DFW, CX Silver does have its attractions, even with benefits limited mainly to CX . And QF Gold while having lousy redemption values is relatively easy to obtain for world-wide lounge access.
Fortunately the decisions and expenses are deferred until January.
Happy wandering
Fred
But being based much closer to HKG than DFW, CX Silver does have its attractions, even with benefits limited mainly to CX . And QF Gold while having lousy redemption values is relatively easy to obtain for world-wide lounge access.
Fortunately the decisions and expenses are deferred until January.
Happy wandering
Fred
Aug 21, 2013, 7:26 pm
#49
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: ORD
Programs: AA Plat / HH Diamond
Posts: 192
Staying loyal ^
Aug 21, 2013, 7:30 pm
#50
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: Charlotte
Programs: Hilton Diamond, Marriott Platinum Elite, AA Platinum Pro, Hertz Presidents
Posts: 1,214
Aug 21, 2013, 8:15 pm
#51
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Indianapolis
Programs: Hilton-Diamond Lifetime Platinum AA UA, WN-CP, SPG Gold.
Posts: 7,377
AA been good to me many a years,
Delta you have got to be kidding,
BA state side no problems, no fuel surcharge.
Delta you have got to be kidding,
BA state side no problems, no fuel surcharge.
Aug 21, 2013, 8:48 pm
#52
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: DCA | DEN
Programs: AA EXP/2.9mm | Marriott LT Titanium 1.6k nights | NEXUS
Posts: 981
Piling on. 100% for 30 months, one fail in 3 yrs - domestic anyway. Some were 11th hour or literally at the gate, but a better record than on UA the last 2 years. My merger gains would have been better BOS/PVD, maybe CLE skeds but not much on the West Coast from here anyway - and I don't mind the DFW connections from DCA -vs- having to hump to IAD for more direct UA. I'm staying put.
Aug 21, 2013, 10:09 pm
#53
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: ORD
Programs: AA EXP,2MM, DL Gold,Starwood PLT
Posts: 3,876
Assume at this point the merger will go forward. Because it likely will. DOJ will most likely either settle or just loose this case. It just delays it by a while.
I still think it was the folks at AA that cocked this up since they never wanted it anyway. That ship has sailed. In all likely hood the deal will eventually close.
I still think it was the folks at AA that cocked this up since they never wanted it anyway. That ship has sailed. In all likely hood the deal will eventually close.
Aug 22, 2013, 12:19 am
#54
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: los angeles, calif.
Programs: Alaska Airlines Gold MVP
Posts: 7,170
Assume at this point the merger will go forward. Because it likely will. DOJ will most likely either settle or just loose this case. It just delays it by a while.
I still think it was the folks at AA that cocked this up since they never wanted it anyway. That ship has sailed. In all likely hood the deal will eventually close.
I still think it was the folks at AA that cocked this up since they never wanted it anyway. That ship has sailed. In all likely hood the deal will eventually close.
No way DOJ loses, and it has no reason to settle.
Aug 22, 2013, 4:10 am
#55
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Austin, TX
Programs: AA LT Plat, UA 1k/1mm+, National EE, IC Plat, Bonvoy Gold
Posts: 2,605
Amen. I am sticking with AA as my primary carrier, as well. I am just about to complete a 1k challenge though, just in case the merger goes through and Dougie messes with AAdvantage and EXP status. Plus, I fly enough to make EXP and at least UA Plat in any year...
Aug 22, 2013, 4:52 am
#56
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Austin, TX
Programs: AA LT Plat, UA 1k/1mm+, National EE, IC Plat, Bonvoy Gold
Posts: 2,605
Btw...slightly off topic, I know. But the merger would be rubber stamped in the next recession. That's when I expect AA and US to try again.
Aug 22, 2013, 5:19 am
#57
Suspended
Join Date: May 2013
Location: NYC
Programs: DL Diamond, AAdvantage EXP, Hyatt Explorist, HHonors Diamond, Avis First
Posts: 7,344
Staying w AA...should requalifying in Dec for EXP with some extra flying I will be doing
Aug 22, 2013, 5:23 am
#58
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: ORD
Programs: AA EXP,2MM, DL Gold,Starwood PLT
Posts: 3,876
Aug 22, 2013, 6:51 am
#60
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: YTO
Posts: 594
Except... I can't search flights on the airline's own website, on ITA, even on EF! Somewhere wAAy wAAy behind the curtain, in the bowels of the global database, AA has screwed it up so you can't get the flights to display. So if I want to go on their newly-improved 22h itinerary YYZ-ORD-NRT-BKK (and 22h coming home, too), I have to search it on the Hong Kong AA site, print screen, call my agent, browbeat them into booking it, correct the name mismatch.
Sigh.
And Yet...
I'm 100% for domestic upgrades (even when I was PLT), all-but-one for Int'l upgrades, and having used SWUs to take my 85-year-old mother on 77W to LHR, used FL in JFK and LHR, and the entire airline put on a show that almost embarrassed me with it's Son-Makes-Good theatricality...
...selfishness and greed compel me to stick with AA.
This fall, when they're scAAred of the DOJ action, they'll try to staunch the exodus of high elites. And you know what that means.