American announced it’s latest regressive fees today, and most of the international upgrade co-pays aren’t terribly surprisingly, but the ball-buster is that it now costs 30,000 miles PLUS $100 to upgrade.
Feh. What’s the point of “free” “mile-based” awards if you need to pay a bucket of cash to get the award as well?
I had totally forgotten I had signed up for this promo, but I’m not going to turn my nose up at extra Q-miles…not at all.
Just launched an EECB at AA for the worst. flight. ever.
Thought you’d all enjoy reading it:
From: Matthew Tarpy
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 9:27 PM
To: ‘gerard.arpey@aa.com’; ‘ralph.richardi@aa.com’; ‘rob.friedman@aa.com’; ’sean.bentel@aa.com’
Cc: ‘Customer.Relations@aa.com’
Subject: American Airlines Flight 380, March 8, 2008/ PNR: XXXXXX
Gerard J. Arpey
President and Chief Executive Officer
Ralph Richardi
Senior Vice President, Customer Services
Rob Friedman [...]
I got a lovely email today from Rob Friedman, President, AAdvantage Marketing Programs informing me that I had just become a millionAAire.
My favorite line is “[w]hether you eagerly awaited this achievement or didn’t realize it occurred…” As a number of people have pointed out (I’m looking at you V and Brett), I should reply that [...]
Woo woo!
I logged onto AA.com this morning to see this glorious site:
Hello, lifetime Gold status!
If I want to make lifetime Platinum status (2 million program miles), it’ll be a while. I joined AAdvantage on 4/17/98, and earned on average 278.68 AAdvantage miles a day to my first million. If this trend were to hold, I’d [...]
I logged into AA.com this morning, and look at what’s posted:
I am now a mere 512 miles from lifetime status on AA.
Random fact: based on my AAdvantage join date (April 17, 1998), I’ve earned approximately 279.34 AAdvantage miles/day to get to 999,488.
That re-qualification monkey is back….noooooooooooo!
Ugh, December 31 is always a sad day because tomorrow YTD numbers all flip back to 0, and that re-qualification monkey is back at work on my back…feh…the only bright spot to this is that I’ll make lifetime AAdvantage Gold in ‘08 .
Here today, gone tomorrow:
So, looks like Avis is having a little customer service issue with their new eliete level renting program Avis First.
I qualified for Avis First a month ago based on rental days (35 paid rental days in a calendar year). After a couple of days past the qualifying rental, I went onto their site, and lo-and-behold [...]
So, Southwest is going to start allowing business travelers (ObAAdvantage: AAdvantage Platinum) to purchase fares that will allow them a guaranteed A-group boarding pass, and a free cocktail on board. That’s starting to sound a lot like a first-class product to me…kinda funny for an airline that views itself as essentially classless. The best, of [...]