American Elite Status – laughable push or cashgrab?

It was last year, or perhaps the year before, that we first started seeing American Airlines offer elites that looked to be missing re-qualification, an opportunity to buy status. This year, the attempt to sell American Elite Status is borderline laughable.  American Elite Status – The offerRight now I’m a Platinum Pro, that’s the 75k…

AAdvantage Program Changes

American AAdvantage Program Updates – November 2016

American Airlines continues to release AAdvantage Program Updates, as we move toward the “go live” of a few new aspects of the program, previously announced in June.Just a brief summary of the AAdvantage Program Updates announced in June: AAdvantage Redeemable Mileage went Revenue Based (for the most part)Of course, we’ve learned subsequently that there are…

American Airlines Executive Platinum

Tales from Seat 28B

As many know, I generally avoid flying in the back of the plane. I leave that to other experts, such as Seat 31B. Nevertheless, yesterday I was glad to have a seat on a flight 2 hours earlier, thanks to a nice benefit for American Airlines Executive Platinum members. What follows is my attempt to…