I think that applies only if you have a waitlisted SWU that doesn’t clear.

Wow that's a huge plus actually! Especially for us in OKC, nearly all of our flights are on E75s and CR7s. Damn, that is actually massive.

Preach! Everytime I say I'm ready to break up with AA I find some wild deal that keeps me hooked. 12K miles for a $400+ ticket will do that nowadays (ever since CX awards dried up lol)

Also DL and UA kiosks don't print paper boarding passes? Is that for real? What the heck - I ALWAYS have paper boarding passes with me, way quicker, much less fumbling, zero chance that my phone freezes up (or most likely one of my kids snatched it from me or something) - DL and UA kiosks don't even give the option to print BPs? Insane.

Totally agree with your top 3. AA is the largest legacy out of OKC so that definitely helps, and yup it's so easy to maintain at least AA PLT even though we fly a lot less than we used to. So as crappy as Isom has made this airline, it's still our best option ... for now.

Depending on inventory, EXP are sometimes offered complimentary upgrades to PE at check-in (even with no SWU requested and no need for cabin rolls). It's been an unpublished benefit for years, but not one you can count on as it is only offered when they're many open seats in PE.

cant speak for DL, as my recent flights have been last minute and and I used my phone, but UA's kiosks and staff can and will print boarding passes.

They are on thin receipt paper vs cardstock, however.

Safety
EXP support line
Occasional note from FA to EXPs

I'll probably get flamed for this, but here goes:

DL, and their adoring fans on Airliners.net, constantly remind everyone how perfect Delta is. Prolonged exposure to Delta fans can be too much - sort of like how your stomach feels a little sour after you've had two pieces too many of Halloween candy.

AA, and their supporters, don't take American as seriously as DL supporters take their favorite airline. DL supporters truly believe that Delta is incapable of doing anything wrong, which makes discussion threads about Delta here (and, much worse, on Airliners.net), irritating. It's nice to have an honest, sincere, discussion about AA's strengths and weaknesses. We couldn't have a thread like this in the Delta forum, because the die hard DL fans would rip apart anyone who says anything even remotely negative about Delta.

The first one is a niche one that only applies to some of us but:

Decent frequencies to smaller airports in the SE even if we have to go to CLT :)
- I can't really complain as when I moved here we had nonstops to just CLT (US/AA) and ATL (DL). Now AA can get me to CLT,DFW,MIA,ORD,DCA,LGA,and BOS.
Clubs may not be as nice as DL or UA offerings, but lounge agents in my experience are EXTREMELY helpful

DL kiosks still print bp’s easily. Meanwhile at UA the print option is buried, you need to push “get digital boarding pass” and get a text sending you another mobile bp, then hit “more options” to find the print button.

I love AA’s legacy style bp’s printed on ticket stock. Sadly this seems to have been replaced with white paper at many stations but still better than UA and DL with their wafer thin receipts.

I wish the same can be said about my city, Reno (sure, insert joke here).

Not long ago, AA would get me direct to LAX, PHX, ORD, DFW, AUS, and CLT. We are now down to only PHX (ugh) and DFW (sigh). Compounding this problem, AS took away RNO-LAX in favor of RNO-SAN (yeah, because that's a super helpful route). This means that our only TPAC connections from RNO on OW are through SEA on AS.

But let's be real - AA is completely irrelevant out west.

DL fan here (switched primary loyalty from AA 1.5 years ago), but this is a good post. I think it more accurately describes a.net DL posts because in the DL forum here you'll certainly get complaints about crew scheduling, 767s, and various other things. But fanboying has been a thing on the Internet since forever. It's up to those of us who can be fair to contribute helpful content rather than doing an airline's PR work.

Is that a DL issue or an a.net issue?

The average quality of posts airliners.net is absolutely terrible. It's 13 year old fanboys who dont spend enough time outside.

Excessive AA fanboy activity used to be a thing here, Isom and his predecessors took care of that ;)