American Airlines takes elite gaming to the next level | Ep181 | 12-17-22
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
American Airlines clearly is not a player-hater: the newly revamped AAdvantage Loyalty Points program seems to be designed with an eye toward gamification. Gone are the days when George Clooney's character from Up in the Air was the ideal of an airline's best customer because this new program values those of us who earn miles without flying. Listen in to hear us discuss our takeaways form this week's AAdvantage announcement -- and a lot more.
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30:26 Main Event: American Airlines takes elite gaming to the next level
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Voyescape podcast. |
| 0:03.9 | You can find all of our travel podcasts from around the world at voyescape.com. |
| 0:10.7 | Let's get into the giant mailbag. |
| 0:13.5 | What crazy thing did City this week? |
| 0:17.5 | It's time for mattress running the numbers. |
| 0:19.8 | Ready for the main event? |
| 0:21.0 | The main event. |
| 0:22.3 | Frequent Miler on the air starts now. |
| 0:26.8 | Today's main event, American Airlines takes a leap gaming to the next level. |
| 0:32.1 | If you like the loyalty point game in 2022, you're probably going to love it in 2023. |
| 0:40.4 | I've been having fun. |
| 0:42.0 | I've been having fun too. |
| 0:43.5 | But if you earn all your status from American Airlines flying, |
| 0:47.4 | you might not be too happy. |
| 0:49.0 | So we'll get into the new and revamped. |
| 0:51.4 | And not just because you're flying American. |
| 0:53.6 | I take it. Not just because you're flying American. I take it. Not just because |
| 0:56.9 | you're flying American. No, it's because you're not going to get as much as many benefits |
| 1:02.7 | if you're only earning loyalty points from flying. But we'll get into all of that. First, |
| 1:09.5 | of course, we have the giant mailbag. Today's giant mail |
| 1:12.3 | comes from Apple Podcasts reviews, and this review is from JP 90210. And JP says, I really |
| 1:22.1 | enjoyed listening to you guys talk about the Miles and Points hobby. You're one of the best out there, |
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