AA 2018 year in review
Dec 22, 2018, 10:06 am
#91
Join Date: Jan 2017
Location: COU
Programs: AA EXP, Bonvoy Ambassador, Hertz PC
Posts: 499
I did 98k BIS on AA metal this year, and I also didn't have a % in my email. I see no reason to think that's meaningful in the slightest. You appear to be assuming that lack of the number in the email means their system thinks you're low; I think it just means they didn't include the number. Even a cursory glance at fanger's chart makes it pretty clear that the people who did get a % in their emails are getting consistent numbers.
Dec 22, 2018, 10:17 am
#92
Join Date: Jan 2017
Location: COU
Programs: AA EXP, Bonvoy Ambassador, Hertz PC
Posts: 499
Awesome work fanger! As I mentioned just above the relationship is really obvious. There's some bunching because AA is rounding to the nearest halfway-round-the-world, but that's to be expected. I think bpauker's outlier is likely related to his large fraction of partner J travel; AA probably doesn't get accurate BIS numbers from MH and that's messing things up. Lavezzi's situation is harder to figure, simply because he didn't tell us anything about his flying. I would figure those two are flukes and just leave them out of the set to do a best fit line.
Dec 22, 2018, 10:20 am
#93
Join Date: Jan 2017
Location: COU
Programs: AA EXP, Bonvoy Ambassador, Hertz PC
Posts: 499
Can you give us any more information about your flying this year? Any partner travel? Long flights credited by distance (special fares or reticketing stuff, etc.)? Do you know your BIS for the year?
You're definitely right that the numbers in your email don't make sense. But per fanger's chart it's pretty clear that's a rarity.
You're definitely right that the numbers in your email don't make sense. But per fanger's chart it's pretty clear that's a rarity.
Dec 22, 2018, 5:29 pm
#96
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: KHOU/KIAH
Programs: AA EXP | Marriott Bonvoy Titanium| Hyatt Globalist
Posts: 11,247
however, I'm confident they have better things to do
Dec 22, 2018, 7:47 pm
#97
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: RDU
Programs: AA EXP / 1MM, Hilton Diamond, Marriott Platinum, IHG Gold
Posts: 198
Understood. But I still had about $60k spend, and most of it was on business fares (granted that some of it was somewhat cheap business to Asia since that’s where a lot of my travel took me to this year).
Dec 22, 2018, 10:44 pm
#99
Join Date: Jan 2017
Location: COU
Programs: AA EXP, Bonvoy Ambassador, Hertz PC
Posts: 499
Dec 22, 2018, 10:54 pm
#100
Join Date: Jan 2017
Location: COU
Programs: AA EXP, Bonvoy Ambassador, Hertz PC
Posts: 499
I mean, theres plenty of other threads with PII for someone with all your travel details. I posted on the J0 thread that I was on AA 1152, for example. AA could find EXP pax on that flight and identify me immediately.
however, I'm confident they have better things to do
however, I'm confident they have better things to do
Dec 23, 2018, 12:02 am
#101
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Bay Area
Programs: WN A-List, AA good-riddance, Safeway Club Card Extraordinaire
Posts: 3,851
Dec 23, 2018, 4:15 am
#102
Join Date: Jul 2016
Posts: 130
I'm an outlier! (or working too hard to retain EP using EQM/BIS)
3.5 times flown around the world
19 destinations visited
Phoenix, Las Vegas, Kansas City most visited destinations (Phoenix is home airport)
Los Angeles - Hong Kong (7,260 miles) furthest flight taken
Airbus A321 type of aircraft most flown
Top 4% rank among Executive Platinum members (based on miles flown)
57,607 bonus miles from elite status
123,031 award miles earned without flying
35+ upgrades received
$120 checked bag savings
For reference, I am currently EP, and will have EP next year. Here are my ytd numbers:
One last flight scheduled for next weekend ($200ish EQD) and 1,200 EQMs to requalify for EP. I earned $6K EQD and 10K EQM from Barclays. I only buy (discount) economy tickets (read: not basic economy), and never buy J/F. One round trip flight (JFK-LHR) was on BA metal in PE for the EQM multiplier.
Another data point - I added up my YTD million miles from AA's website. I have 75,606 BIS miles this year with the last flight pending.
Last edited by tbone14; Dec 23, 2018 at 4:47 am Reason: BIS data
Dec 23, 2018, 5:32 am
#103
Join Date: Mar 2018
Location: PHL
Programs: AA EXP, HH Diamond, Owner of 2,000 TWA shares
Posts: 812
My statement says I was in the top 1% of amount of time waiting for bag delivery at PHL with 113 hours spent waiting. Also.... averaged 2nd to last bag delivered despite orange priority tag.
Dec 23, 2018, 5:52 am
#104
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: PHL
Programs: HH Lifetime Diamond, AA EXP, Marriott Titanium
Posts: 586
My flight back from LHR a couple weeks ago (BA metal) i was pleased to see that i got my bag < 30 minutes from touch-down. Gated, offloaded, cleared through immigration (GE) and had a bag..... so now i wonder, is it really PHL, or is it AA in PHL.
Dec 23, 2018, 5:57 am
#105
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: PHL
Programs: HH Lifetime Diamond, AA EXP, Marriott Titanium
Posts: 586
I went back and looked at my year, I flew no further than DFW (From PHL) in Y (Paid). With the exception of HKG RT was with SWU's (at time of booking).