No credit for money paid
 

I unfortunately have to agree with you that this is totally nuts and another in a long line of blunders where it seems that no one thinks a situation totally through. In my opinion, this is one of the underlying reasons for their filing as they continued to lose premium revenue and irritate long-time customers

I understand disallowing non-airline related miles but not to give credit for revenue is counterproductive.

I am just short of 9MM and frankly, I use the EVIPs to upgrade from C to F mostly on transpac flights where I actually have a choice between AA (transit in NRT) and CX (transit in HKG). in my case, the only way that I will fly AA (and pay business class) is if I can use an EVIP as their C product is totally non-competitive. If I don't have them to use, I will fly the new CX product and get full AA benefits......

My only hope is that this filing knocks some sense into management and they start to realize what they selling in relation to their competition and what they have to do to keep their premium travelers from bolting after the hights level that they can qualify for

I'm going to respectfully disagree. High revenue flyers get the benefit of getting status (EXP) by flying less miles than those flying on cheaper tickets (DEQMs aside)...and that's exactly how it should be. There should be added benefits to paying for J and F seats. You could also argue that high revenue flyers also get CK service as an added "thank you"...I guess it depends on what you consider "high revenue".

The MM program is (now) all about recognizing and rewarding those who fly a lot of actual BIS miles with AA and I don't see why revenue should be expected to come in to it. If it's such a good idea to link all status goals with revenue why is there such a commotion going on over at UA/CO?

It's always amusing to see people getting so upset about not getting all the perks that they think they are entitled to on account of spending large amounts of OPM. :D

By default I was given the 8 stickers, I called and had them converted into the 35,000 miles -- after 3 calls to AA over 4 or so days, to finally get them to do this correctly, and not make me come out with less than they promised -- (posted about this somewhere much much earlier in this thread).

I guess it's officially here :(

Will purchases made today count or was yesterday the last day? I made a bunch of purchases and my card got locked last night and I wasn't able to make a last minute purchase for ~600 miles.

As a reference point, my Citibank debit card miles posted this morning w/ a date of 30 Nov. This caused the miles to be added to my MM balance. In short, so long as your transaction occurred on/before the 30th, you should be okay. What would be interesting to see is if AAdvantage Eshopping purchase subtractions will also subtract from the MM total. Under the old scheme, this did not happen.

Are you sure they did not get subtracted? I certainly know they were subtracted from the total available miles. But I never looked to see if they subtracted them from the million miles.

Am only 6,200 miles away from the next million and have some very late November dines plus a flight SFO-JFK later this week. I can taste the SWUs....the last I will ever see.

As a side note, and I am assuming AA realized this would cause a loss of revenue, nearly all of my future non-flight mileage earning (dining, shopping, hotels, rental cars) will now be directed to other airlines to build up my airmiles for free tickets with them. Before December 1st it was almost exclusively AA.

+1

Happy wandering

Fred

I checked and doubled-checked that the "returns" were subtracted from the available mileage balance, but not the MM balance.

Re: partner earning, I have always used the shopping portal of the airline that offered the most miles/$. This will not change. I will likely move my car rentals to WN and my Hilton double dip to UA or DL depending on promo.

Anyway, I am envious of your 3MM status. Enjoy!

What happened to all of us who have achieved these
 

thresholds in years past and did not received anything except the lifetime Gold, then lifetime Platinum. At 4.7 millions, I did not get anything at my 3MM, nothing at 4MM either.
Thanks for any help to clearify this issue.

You forgot Japanese airlines, though. Domestic, I don't see any difference between taking JL/NH and taking the train. And, both charge YQ on their own award inventory.

At 3MM I got the EVIPs....

You'd be the first that I've seen report that they didn't get anything for passing MM thresholds in the past. You apparently did not use the SWU's that were given to you.

I am serious...I was sent a congratulatory letter for my 4MM in 2005 and I still have that email, and nothing mentioned in the letter. And my boss, he passed 7 MM and his letter said no such things as the eVPs either.