Physical Card for Platinum
Dec 19, 2022, 10:42 am
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Physical Card for Platinum
Hey Guys! Hope you all doing well. I know AA no longer sends physical membership kit to newly qualified Platinum members, but just out of curiosity I’m wondering if it’d be possible to request the physical kit on the phone or through email. Anyone has had the experience? Thank you! 
Dec 19, 2022, 10:52 am
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Do they even send physical kits to Exec Plats...? What about luggage tags...? Maybe all this has been discontinued and now everything is 100% digital...?
Dec 19, 2022, 10:57 am
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Dec 19, 2022, 12:07 pm
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Dec 19, 2022, 12:42 pm
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Hey Guys! Hope you all doing well. I know AA no longer sends physical membership kit to newly qualified Platinum members, but just out of curiosity I’m wondering if it’d be possible to request the physical kit on the phone or through email. Anyone has had the experience? Thank you!
Dec 19, 2022, 2:08 pm
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Dec 19, 2022, 2:19 pm
#8
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To answer your question directly: no, you cannot request a Platinum kit by phone or email because no such kits exist. AA is not going to create a Platinum luggage tag for you no matter how nicely you ask.
Dec 19, 2022, 2:36 pm
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What problem could there possibly be?
If you need proof of status, print a boarding pass and your OW status, in this case Sapphire, will be on it
If you need proof of status, print a boarding pass and your OW status, in this case Sapphire, will be on it
Dec 19, 2022, 2:41 pm
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Dec 19, 2022, 2:45 pm
#12
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Hasn’t there been reports of people being rejected lounge access since they couldn’t produce a physical card?
I think id rather stick with the mobile version…Can’t believe a global airline of AA’s scale cheap enough to not even give out physical cards to sapphire members, given that some other airlines give out physical cards even to non status holders.
I think id rather stick with the mobile version…Can’t believe a global airline of AA’s scale cheap enough to not even give out physical cards to sapphire members, given that some other airlines give out physical cards even to non status holders.
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Dec 19, 2022, 2:50 pm
#13
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I can not remember the last time I had my physical card on me, whereas my phone is always in tow. pull up the AA app on the phone, show it to whom it may concern. what am I missing?
Dec 19, 2022, 2:54 pm
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My understanding is that there should be no problem at all in most airports, but there are people who had the problem in some small non-major airports in Europe which I tend to visit a lot, hence the worries. Hopefully it’s no longer the case.
Dec 19, 2022, 2:55 pm
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