{"id":1072,"date":"2016-02-27T05:39:07","date_gmt":"2016-02-27T13:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=1072"},"modified":"2022-08-08T21:19:31","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T05:19:31","slug":"the-partys-over-on-aa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/the-partys-over-on-aa\/","title":{"rendered":"The Party&#8217;s Over (on AA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the lemmings have followed each other off a cliff. AA has pulled a &#8220;United&#8221; by devaluing their award chart and later this year, accrual of Redeemable Miles. What AA has NOT done is to institute a spend requirement for status, like UA and Delta have done. Mixed blessings, huh?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been Executive Platinum for two years. And despite having to fly to LAX to go anywhere in Asia on AA metal, my upgrades clear (without having to book W class fares) and as one of my friends says, experiencing flight crews that don&#8217;t hate their passengers. Still, this devaluation has got me thinking about alternatives based on my travel patterns. Maybe KrisFlyer?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the lemmings have followed each other off a cliff. AA has pulled a &#8220;United&#8221; by devaluing their award chart and later this year, accrual of Redeemable Miles. What AA has NOT done is to institute a spend requirement for status, like UA and Delta have done. Mixed blessings, huh? I&#8217;ve been Executive Platinum for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/the-partys-over-on-aa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Party&#8217;s Over (on AA)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-travel-advice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2mgIi-hi","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1076,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions\/1076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}