AA Changing Million Miler Program

[Pat H Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Pat H]

Knew this would happen sooner or later. Other than the credit card miles mentioned below, beginning 12/1/11 only flying miles will be counted towards million miler status. I need to come up with 538,000 miles by then to reach Platinum status. My Gold status is grandfathered. Here is the email from AA -

We are announcing a new AAdvantage® Million MilerSM program which recognizes and rewards AAdvantage members when Million Miler thresholds are reached. Starting December 1, 2011, AAdvantage base miles earned by flying on American Airlines, American Eagle® or the AmericanConnection® carrier or any eligible AAdvantage program participating airline will count towards Million Miler status. Also, as a limited time offer, one AAdvantage mile for every dollar spent on eligible purchases using the new Citi ExecutiveSM / AAdvantage® World EliteTM MasterCard® credit card that post to billing statements through December 2012 will count toward Million Miler status*. The Citi ExecutiveSM / AAdvantage® World EliteTM MasterCard® credit card account must be open and in good standing by December 1, 2011.

[vinolover Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close vinolover]

DH needs over 600,000 to make Plat for life. Guess that won't happen now. At least he gets to keep lifetime gold (and exit row seats).

[Carolinian Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Carolinian]

Sorry to hear about that ''enhancement'', but what is rumored for UA/CO is much worse. Looks like the era of airline mergers is also the era of destroying ff programs. AF/KLM started it, DL/NW followed on, and now UA/CO seems likely to do it as well. AA, not being in a merger, is doing less watering down of their program.