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Oct. 27th, 2008 12:51 pmAmerican Airlines is discontinuing minimum miles flown for their AAdvantage club people. You must fly either Elite or before 11/2009 to get minimum points. Gold and platinum card holders are exempt.
"Effective January 1, 2009, we are discontinuing the minimum mileage guarantee for non-elite status members for flights on American Airlines, American Eagle®, AmericanConnection®, oneworld® member airlines, AAdvantage® participating airlines as well as rail service and codeshare service booked under an AA flight number."
Of course, this pushes us further into buying solely on cost and convenience. Whole Foods learned this when they discontinued their stamp card for every $5 spent on WF vitamins. Something changed for them, so they brought back cards a few years ago. Now, a stamp per checkout, and when full, $10 off vitamins. Not as good, but something.
Perhaps mail order was cutting into their vitamin line's profit.
"Effective January 1, 2009, we are discontinuing the minimum mileage guarantee for non-elite status members for flights on American Airlines, American Eagle®, AmericanConnection®, oneworld® member airlines, AAdvantage® participating airlines as well as rail service and codeshare service booked under an AA flight number."
Of course, this pushes us further into buying solely on cost and convenience. Whole Foods learned this when they discontinued their stamp card for every $5 spent on WF vitamins. Something changed for them, so they brought back cards a few years ago. Now, a stamp per checkout, and when full, $10 off vitamins. Not as good, but something.
Perhaps mail order was cutting into their vitamin line's profit.
