While we've seen tons of changes to both the Delta SkyMiles and United MileagePlus program over the past couple of years,the American AAdvantage program has remained pretty regular. And that's to say that American has a considerably more lucrative award chart, and is also the only one of the "big three" US carriers to not own a revenue requirement for status, or to award miles based on spend rather than miles flown.
That can perhaps largely be explained by the fact that American has been focused on their merger with US Airways,and throughout this process their focus has been on "integrating" rather than "innovating." Now that the final major hurdle of the merger is complete with the integration of the two airlines' reservations systems, we'll presumably see some "innovation" soon.
During a recent earnings call, and American's President Scott Kirby said he was hoping for "more innovation within the frequent flyer program," which should come as no surprise. I don't assume that's necessarily to say that they'll copy Delta or United precisely, but clearly there will be some changes.
I assume we've all sort of been sitting around and waiting for them, and it looks like we'll finally see them very shortly.
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Source: boardingarea.com