Hawaiian Airlines came out of a bankruptcy even stronger. They used to only fly inter-island in Hawaii, to Tahiti, Pago Pago and the US West Coast. Since bankruptcy, they have three routes to Japan, and also go to Australia and the Philippines. They will be flying non-stop Honolulu to New York starting in June. Hopefully the same will happen to AA.

I do want to add though that Hawaiian has built an empire on the backs of the Hawaiian people. After Aloha Airlines shut down, Hawaiian dropped the kamaaina fares (lower rates for residents) that had always enabled local people to visit family and have fun on other islands. Now Hawaiian's fares have skyrocketed making inter-island travel too costly for most locals to do often.

With all due respect, this thread is about the million miler program and potential fallouts as a result of the BK filing. This thread is not about the employees who didn't retire early or the small vendors who will get screwed. AA is in charge of this BK as long as the BK court approves their plan. And, yes, it's possible and even likely AAdvantage will remain, but anything can happen including a hostile take over from another airline that will supplant it's FF program in the newly merged airline. US did it (HP Flightfund went bye bye), AA did it (TWA's program went away), and UA is doing it with CO's Onepass. We shouldn't be so complacent to believe that changes to MM wouldn't happen in those scenarios.

Here is an interesting data point - I am about 20k miles short of 1MM. I just checked my upgrade account today because I was going to use an SWU for a friend - I noticed that 8 upgrade "stickers" appeared in my account with this past Monday's date and a description of MM bonus. Again, I have not hit 1MM yet. I do have one more trip booked in Dec but it will not put me over. Early Christmas present?

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Every US airline that has merged has kept their Miles program miles and Lounge club memberships.
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LOL - Except AA who didn't honor TWA lifetime club memberships

Should I push for 1MM?
 

I currently have 984,903 miles. I have read through most of the treads to see if I should push towards 1MM and other than possibly getting 4 SWU if you have an international address, I don't see much reason to push for the 1MM mark before 12/1. I dont want to mess with changing my address and get in trouble with the powers that be. Can anyone think of a good reason (maybe Im missing something) why I should push for 1MM. I should be able to hit 1MM with flight miles within the next month or two, so I'm not concerned that much about hitting 1MM. Just wanted to see if there was a good reason to hit it before the deadline.

Thanks

You'll get 35k miles that will count towards lifetime PLT :)

Will my purchases via my citi cards in November, that will bill first week of December, go towards my MM count?

I know my World Exec Plat will, but what about my 2 normal Citi cards, that had bonus's this month?

HP

Sorry. Any regular citi cards purchases that post on a statement in December will not count toward MM status.

Phew...! the last few AA miles just posted on my account with a Citi expedited transfer putting me within a stone's throw of the MM mark.

Question: does the 4 SWU offer still apply to folks with a foreign address?
If so - are these posted electronically to the AAdvantage account?

If you don't cross the MM mark today, then no SWUs for you. If you do/did cross the MM mark, then I would put in a call to AA CS to make sure you get 4 SWU. After 1 Dec, persons w/ a foreign address get 35000 miles instead of 4 SWU.

Delta did sell Lifetime memberships back in the day! And, as another poster noted, lifetime TW Ambassadors got shafted by AA.

It gets stranger - I just got my congratulations email from AA on earning 1MM. My acccount is 20k short - not sure why I am getting this early.

maybe some miles you get from the credit card posted to your account but has not post online. Wish you the best.

You should probably call AA.

If you're at a foreign address, make sure you get those SWU.

If you're at a domestic, get those 35K miles added to your account today:
1) End up 3.5% closer to LT platinum
2) If for some reason there is a mistake that is to be later fixed, then you will have moved up your MM counter past 1M by getting those 35K miles into your account today and onto your PTD counter today.

Do you get the 35K Miles in addition to 8 Upgrade stickers? I just made MM and since I dont fly AA much (read that not at all - get miles from BankDIrect) I would much rather have 35K RDM than 8 Upgrade stickers that I cant use (I have over 50 from when I used to be EXP).