This erroneous blog post made me squawk. It's been corrected, but as of Sunday the author was claiming wrong (and higher) LP earn levels. 250,000 for EXP! But then I checked here and this forum had not exploded, so I figured it was wrong;

Phew!

We’re spared for the coming year (undoubtedly all the backlash to Delta’s program changes may have influenced AA and UA). I think how the economy looks at the end of 2024 will heavily influence how things look next year.

Anecdotally, I’m already seeing some softness in premium fares on the domestic routes I fly for 2024 so there’s that…

First, I would like to thank Delta, an airline I never fly, for making the biggest faux pas of greed this year, having to walk some of it back after the public outcry, and likely putting fear of mileage gods into UA and AA--at least a teeny bit.
Next, I would like to thank AA because the only reason I refuse to buy up to upgrades is that I don't get LPs, which is silly. Great move, IMO. Also, while 1K LP is not big, it's LPs and it's bigger than seat coupons or priority boarding. Anything that is something is better than nothing, and all that empty philosophical jazz.
It's only the second year of LPs, and they already raised the Gold level last year, as well as the SWU level. It's nice to finally see things given and not taken.
Good job, AA.

I wouldn’t be surprised if they had already planned increases in qualification levels for the coming year, but rolled those back after the DL backlash.

AA has actually bought themselves time by changing the qualification year from Jan 1 to March 1; now they have 2+ months to respond to competitors.

And the SDC benefit for all members. I think you have to be AS MVPG75k to get SDC on AA. As someone who barely made plat, I am contemplating hopping to AS for this qualifying year now that AS has removed metal requirements and MVPG is a much more attainable OWS status via actually flown miles. I’m already tired of playing the LP game after a year, but these enhancements surely are making me think twice.

Apologize if this is somewhere in previous posts, but as an EXP who doesn't purchase cash upgrades, I really don't see many benefits to EXP. What am I missing?

For basic fare, I would have liked EXP to earn full loyalty points for the fare paid instead of the discounts 4.7 miles.

nothing exclusive to EXP beyond FFD mileage redemptions that are also avail to PPRO

Still no changes for the Million Miler program which is the worst compared to AS, DL, and UA's.

There's a huge cost to providing the benefits at the 250k level and I wouldn't have been surprised to see them bump it to 300k. They moved it from 200k to 250k for this year. Don't get me wrong, I'm elated. I'm also surprised to see the 20% and 30% kickers sticking around!

I was also pleasantly surprised by this. The "spend for LPs" approach must be proving profitable to AA.

very convenient to T4.

Credit card company operating an airline on the side

that’s an assumption. Today it refers to paid tickets, it says nothing about tomorrow.

you may be right but at least two experienced readers don’t read it the way you do- hence it’s ambiguous by definition.

i thought 6 months extra on flight credits was unambiguous, but it is and in a deceptive way. The email only went to members who are NOzT getting six more months then they used to.

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