Announces More Flexibility and Simplicity in Its Award Structure for AAdvantage Membe
Aug 7, 2003, 9:34 am
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Announces More Flexibility and Simplicity in Its Award Structure for AAdvantage Membe
AA Announces More Flexibility and Simplicity in Its Award Structure for AAdvantage Members
AAdvantage Members May Now Mix and Match Airlines
American Airlines AAdvantageŽ customers may now claim new, more flexible airline travel awards to hundreds of destinations worldwide. This innovative award structure makes American the first airline to offer so much flexibility in an airline award program.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030807/dath021_1.html
AAdvantage Members May Now Mix and Match Airlines
American Airlines AAdvantageŽ customers may now claim new, more flexible airline travel awards to hundreds of destinations worldwide. This innovative award structure makes American the first airline to offer so much flexibility in an airline award program.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030807/dath021_1.html
Aug 7, 2003, 9:42 am
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This has been discussed for weeks in the AA forum, along with the fact that the increased flexibility often goes along with increased mileage requirements for the same trip - even when the previous flexibility was sufficient. The moderators may want to close this thread in favor of the ongoing discussion there. In the meantime, I'd urge interested people to follow this topic and post on it in that forum so as not to fragment the discussion.
Aug 7, 2003, 12:18 pm
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Yes, I meant to link to it over there, from here, so that non AA "regulars" would not miss it! 
Please also see:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum71/HTML/017604.html
Please also see:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum71/HTML/017604.html
Aug 8, 2003, 7:14 pm
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Yeah, both "flexibility" and "simplicity" should set off alarms these days, as it's often spin for "higher mileage cost."