Alyssa has had it with American Airlines. Officially!
 

Got this from reddit

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...8f633f1e07.jpg

Am I supposed to know who that is?

Haha this is awesome! But top 5%, I HIGHLY doubt that.

Alyssa Edwards...Drag Queen Extraordinaire. Though frustrating to be without your bag for five days.

Girrrrrrrrl! Do not mess with an angry drag queen! They have an audience and will share stories about the drama they have endured.

That aside, losing a bag for that long makes me think it's not lost...it's gone.

Love. She was in London last week and saw "Everybody's Talking about Jaime". Maybe they lost her bag of gowns on the way back ha ha

Why would you HIGHLY doubt that an entertainer (actor and producer according to IMDB), with a bunch of TV and movie credits, wouldn't be in the top 5% of AA flyers?

87% of all AA flyers only fly once a year, so taking two trips puts someone in the top 13% right off the bat.

Top 5% isn't that difficult

Goodbye Cruel Airline.

Omg I love her. She’s Dallas-based. And Cheryl Hole commented!!!!

No clue who she is but on the totem pole of problems at AA, lost luggage isn’t all that high IMO.

I'd make a strong bet that any EP is easily in the top 5% of AA flyers, given that there are probably less than 100K (as there were ~60K 4 years ago). Heck, top tier airline status might not even be 5% of FT posters.

Wow. That is an interesting stat. I never would have guessed the vast majority of flyers are only once-a-year.

stupid question I’m sure but how does that stat work? 87% of travellers take a single segment, one way trip per year? How do they get back?

i clicked through to the source and it didn’t seem to allow for the possibility of round trips

Someone needs their own Gulfstream G650.

The footnote for the stat says “unique passengers flown.” Doesn’t specify anything about segments. My guess is they calculated per reservation; e.g., 87% of pax only travel on 1 reservation (most of which are probably RTs) per year.

Personally I prefer the G650ER.

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).

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.

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

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

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

A candidate for the DYKWIA thread.

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

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,

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.

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.

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

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