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AA adds a few tweaks to AAdvantage

 

Earlier this week, American's newest version of its AAdvantage loyalty program went into effect, replacing a variety of different ways to earn points and elite status with a single kind of loyalty 'currency,' logically named a Loyalty Point.

In the past, status could be earned based on numbers of flights, or on numbers of points or on numbers of dollars spent and in several combinations of those. Now, all earnings will be translated into Loyalty Points, potentially making things simpler.

Along with that change, American has shifted its expiration policy on its points. While United and Delta have done away with expiration altogether, American has kept an 18-month limit on how long an account can go without transactions of one sort or another. American is still keeping expiration in its rules, but has changed the limit to 24 months. For AAdvantage members who have an AA co-branded credit card, there will be no expiration as long as the account is open.

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