Is AA becoming a Credit Card company that happens to run an airline?
May 5, 2023, 8:16 pm
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Is AA becoming a Credit Card company that happens to run an airline?
AA seems to benefit the purchasing manager with a AA branded corporate credit card over the BIS traveler.
Am I wrong? And where might this go? Would it be a Credit Card "benefit" to have AA status rather than AA status due to Credit Card spend?
Am I wrong? And where might this go? Would it be a Credit Card "benefit" to have AA status rather than AA status due to Credit Card spend?
May 5, 2023, 9:09 pm
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May 5, 2023, 9:23 pm
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I’m so glad that you asked about this. Because this thread has been specially selected to receive an exclusive offer, where you can earn 50,000 AAdvantage® miles after your first purchase. That’s enough miles for two free round trip domestic tickets. So many people have been asking us about this offer that there are just a few applications left.
May 5, 2023, 9:54 pm
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May 6, 2023, 1:26 am
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Seems like their ideology is dabble in different sectors and try to maintain bare minimum effort before people hate it too much and cause enough of a storm that requires changes. If everyone is just "content" with it, might as well continue until it goes down under.
May 6, 2023, 6:25 am
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I figure that credit card revenues may be more profitable for AA than transporting people who bought tickets with cash, so it's AA's prerogative to encourage one type of revenue more than the other.
May 6, 2023, 6:38 am
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May 6, 2023, 8:26 am
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so what do you recommend as the best way of doing that? I don’t have a ton of CC spend in general - maybe $5k per month total.
May 6, 2023, 8:31 am
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Operational; this is the best AA has been run in 20 years and they have been near the top in the US over the last year. If you are talking financially they have also improved tremendously too and have great tailwinds now vs headwinds of the recent past.