Well, the trick is to have over 3,000,000,000 miles on American,
literally live on their airplanes for most of the week, hold Executive
Platinum Status, and THEN they treat you like... well... never mind.
:-)  (Off again to Philadelphia and Chicago next week)

Russ


Don Ward wrote:
>
> Reef Fish wrote:
> >Now that I am an AA Platinum
> >member, I can't find much attrative about AA even as a Plat member.
>
> I am a gold member and could not agree more.  I fly on refundable,
> non-restricted fares (equals very expensive) almost always and feel as
> if  AA could not care less about me.  TWA had a lot of problems but they
> treated me like a king. I don't see really any perks I get for my gold
> status other than bonus miles that Do Not count towards renewed gold or
> platinum status.  in 30,000 gold miles since last fall on full Y class
> fares, I have been compt to First Class one time.
>
> /Don