Are you comfortable flying AA?
#31
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: PHX, SEA
Programs: DL Silver, Avis President's Club, Hertz President's Circle, Global Entry (Former AA Plt/Gold)
Posts: 4,416
I'm the opposite (started flying DL out of PHX despite the connections) and would rather my paid flights be better rather than the occasional award flight be cheaper.
#32
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: BOS/UTH
Programs: AA LT PLT; QR GLD; Bonvoy LT TIT
Posts: 12,635
As a member of an ethnic minority group, I would avoid flying AA due to an increasing number of racist incidents. The latest one https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-49764305
#33
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: Austin, TX - AUS
Programs: AA Platinum, Hilton, Hyatt, IHG, Marriott
Posts: 1,622
#34
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: CLT
Programs: AA Executive Platinum, Hilton Diamond, Lifetime Admirals Club member
Posts: 417
So were the racist AA employees racist before they were hired, or is there a formal edict that they become racists during their first few years of training & onboarding? Are all 126,000 employees racist or just the front line employees (not the pilots right? Pilots make too much money...they cant be racists). Is it specifically the flight attendants or are the gate agents who are the racists? What about the AAngels in the Admirals Club...racists or no? Is it the legacy AA employees or the newer ones from USAirways & America West? Now wait, is it the regional carriers or the mainline employees who are the racists? If its the regional... were they racist when they started with Piedmont or only since US merged with AA? Just trying to figure out who the racists are at AA. Does Delta & Southwest have racists too or is it limited to AA? If only AA, please tell us how UA & WN have managed to not have racists but AA does...
#35
Join Date: May 2015
Location: ATL/MCO
Programs: Costco Executive, RaceTrac Sultan of Soda, Chick-fil-A Red
Posts: 5,642
#36
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: SLC/HEL/Anywhere with a Beach
Programs: Marriott Ambassador; AA EXP 3MM; AS MVP, Hilton Gold, CH-47/UH-60/C-23/C-130 VET
Posts: 5,234
Unfortunately Gary has bought into the narrative on his blog. Who knows what happened. I presume it was more than toilet flushes.
And, FWIW, this white guy keeps getting SSSS and extra screening on AA but never on other airlines even though I have precheck, am an EXP, and am way more vetted than almost anyone. Plus the baggage lady at LGA in the precheck line hassled me this week.
And, FWIW, this white guy keeps getting SSSS and extra screening on AA but never on other airlines even though I have precheck, am an EXP, and am way more vetted than almost anyone. Plus the baggage lady at LGA in the precheck line hassled me this week.
#37
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: SLC/HEL/Anywhere with a Beach
Programs: Marriott Ambassador; AA EXP 3MM; AS MVP, Hilton Gold, CH-47/UH-60/C-23/C-130 VET
Posts: 5,234
Definitely less comfortable now ....
Flight attendants offered a PDB of choice, then they thanked me by name for being an EXP, and then apparently my flight wasn't selected for an exciting offer. This is the first flight this year where we werent selected for the Barclays Card offer as I didn't hear anything about it! Profiling? An alternate universe? Should I be less comfortable?
Flight attendants offered a PDB of choice, then they thanked me by name for being an EXP, and then apparently my flight wasn't selected for an exciting offer. This is the first flight this year where we werent selected for the Barclays Card offer as I didn't hear anything about it! Profiling? An alternate universe? Should I be less comfortable?
#40
Join Date: Sep 2008
Posts: 7,875
It is like eating junky food because it is cheap or free. I remember when the bartender had an extra Miller pulled up, and asked if anybody wanted it for free. Everyone passed (this was at DEN, maybe somewhere else it'd be different).
#41
Join Date: May 2015
Location: ATL/MCO
Programs: Costco Executive, RaceTrac Sultan of Soda, Chick-fil-A Red
Posts: 5,642
A common mistake made by people. You shouldn't stay in a hotel of your preferred program to earn more points if the other hotel is just so much better. Presuming you actually want a nice hotel, and not just some points.
It is like eating junky food because it is cheap or free. I remember when the bartender had an extra Miller pulled up, and asked if anybody wanted it for free. Everyone passed (this was at DEN, maybe somewhere else it'd be different).
It is like eating junky food because it is cheap or free. I remember when the bartender had an extra Miller pulled up, and asked if anybody wanted it for free. Everyone passed (this was at DEN, maybe somewhere else it'd be different).
And haven't we all been at that point in our lives where we eat the junky food because it's cheap?
If there are two comparable hotels in the area I'd obviously pick the nicer one, would I pick a Hampton Inn compared to a Park Hyatt just because I like HHonors more? Absolutely not.
#42
Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: SAN
Programs: AA CK, Hyatt Globalist
Posts: 839
I never got the hype behind DL being so much better, I find their agents to be just as good or bad however you want to put it compared to AA. DL has the sorry SkyClubs for their INTL Premium pax while AA has the FL's. I get lounge access when traveling within North America with my AY status whereas if I have Elite+ on another SkyTeam carrier I get nothing. I can select MCE (compared to DL C+) at the time of booking for me and 8 companions... I could go on forever on how I prefer AA.
#43
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Texas
Programs: Hyatt Glob (Barely); Marriott Plat Life; AA Up and Down Now Plat; Hilton, United, Delta ex-status
Posts: 2,652
Plus the baggage lady at LGA in the precheck line hassled me this week.
Last edited by jayer; Sep 21, 2019 at 9:08 pm
#45
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: SLC/HEL/Anywhere with a Beach
Programs: Marriott Ambassador; AA EXP 3MM; AS MVP, Hilton Gold, CH-47/UH-60/C-23/C-130 VET
Posts: 5,234
I think that's the one! I've been avoiding LaGuardia but she's been there for years watching the bags. And if I rolled on by, she yelled stop and wouldn't back off. Definitely makes me uncomfortable about flying AA! But offset by two flights with pre-departure beverages and neither flight talked about credit cards!