cmd320

Personally I prefer the G650ER.

SeattleDavid

And statistics are confusing territory anyway. Being in the top 5% of unique AA passengers requires a time-bounded measurement for uniqueness (over 12 months I guess) and therefore it does not put you anywhere near the top 5% on any particular flight, or even on any given day (though per day is going to be much closer to 5% than per flight).

Ldnn1

Per day could still be nowhere near 5%. Remember that, by definition, each person in that 87% total only flies on one day per year (or two days if RT). Whereas, by definition, the more frequent fliers fly on multiple days.

What this means is that on the average day, you could in theory have the majority or at least a significant minority of seats flown by frequent fliers, despite them representing only a small proportion of the total annual unique customers.

Without further information we can't tell the average seat mix just from the uniqueness stat.

nancypants

it’s a fairly standard demonstration of making the statistics fit whatever point the user (in this case, AA) is trying to make IMO

necessarily vague on the finer detail to make it harder to debunk

fotographer

who are you are? again
and why are you important to me?

SJWarrior

Hope he/she does leave AA. Something tells me there would be a lot of extra overhead space on those flights.

bobnchi

A candidate for the DYKWIA thread.

LovePrunes

nah, the person cant travel with overhead bags...obviously WAYYYY over the limit for aerosol hairspray in carryons

IggySD

Alyssa Edwards is a she, which I’m guessing you knew is the preferred pronoun but are just trying to be “edgy” like your name.

I suspect the real issue is that a FA pointed out her back rolls,

MorganB

Ha Ha on the back rolls ! I love that moment on Drag Race. I feel like he/she is more tricky maybe. Alyssa Edwards is a stage name so when in drag I would think it would be proper to refer to Alyssa as she but perhaps when she is Justin and not in drag he would be appropriate unless you're using the gay vernacular "she" which is again different ha ha.

wetrat0

I don't think there was any claim in the OP about seat mix. She didn't say she was in the top 5% of AA customers on a particular flight. Rather, she claimed to be in the top 5% of all AA customers.

This is not that complicated-- in fact it's such a widely known phenomenon that it has a name: the Pareto Principle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle), colloquially known as the 80/20 rule. It's an empirical rule as many businesses observe that 80% of sales come from 20% of clients, and the remaining 20% of sales come from 80% of clients. Therefore there is a small group of clients whom it is important to keep happy because losing them would result in a dis-proportional loss of sales, and a large group of clients that just don't drive that much revenue and aren't worth pursuing aggressively (unless you can get them to sign up for a Barclay's card).

In this case, let's say that AA has N unique customers, and 87% of them apparently fly once per year. Let's assume the once-a-year passengers all take a round-trip (i.e., at least 2 segments) and half of them also have a connection (4 segments), resulting in an average of 3 segments per infrequent-flyer, or a total of 0.87*N*3 total segments flown by infrequent flyers. The remaining 13% of customers are frequent-enough flyers. If the average frequent-enough flyer flies S segments per year, then the total segments flown by frequent-enough flyers is 0.13*N*S. So the seat share for frequent-enough flyers is (0.13*N*S)/(0.13*N*S+0.87*N*3). Cancelling out 0.13*N top and bottom, we get the seat share of frequent-enough flyers as roughly (S)/(S+20). So for frequent-enough flyers to make up a majority of seat-sales we would need S=20, i.e., an average of 20 segments per flyer (which would put the average such flyer about halfway to Gold).

Totally plausible though completely irrelevant to the original post. To wit, given the 80/20 rule, it's not an exaggeration to suppose that someone who is executive platinum is among the top 5% of customers at AA, in fact it's almost surely the case.

TomMM

Ah, explains why I took her to be an AI bot.

aeroman380

Exactly. If you aren't sure then it is safe to use "they" or "them"

When in drag it is usually always she...but if you arent sure then it doesnt hurt to ask what their preference is

JY1024

Closing this thread, as discussion is mostly not relevant to AA nor AAdvantage program. /Moderator