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I’ve had the Aviator Red card before, and I have the Aviator Silver (converted from an Aviator Red). I also recently cancelled my Barclays Hawaiian Airlines cards. Barclays can be finicky so honestly I wasn’t expecting to be approved.
Currently, two banks issue American Airlines credit cards in the U.S.: Citibank and Barclays. The airline’s new cobrand deal grants exclusivity for this business to Citibank starting next year. And Barclays cards are going to move over to Citi.
A visibly drunk American Airlines Concierge Key member used his status to demand changing the TV channel in the Chicago O’Hare Flagship lounge, hurled homophobic slurs at passengers, and assaulted the staff. Reportedly, nothing was done, because ‘he has high status’.
American Airlines told its flight attendants union that it was imposing a new points policy for absences in early August, with just a few days notice. The union flipped its lid, and around July 29th American agreed to hold off immediate implementation of the changes pending further discussion.
It’s sad the depths to which American’s Flagship First Class product has fallen. They are eliminating the product, but the truth is going the other direction wouldn’t have been hard.
American Airlines is firing flight attendants for offering other crewmembers incentives to pick up their trips. The union says this is new, and violates their contract. The Chicago base notified crewmembers on Friday that “Posting a trip with an incentive to drop” had led to “The absolute worst outcome available” and that was done without any progressive discipline.
American Airlines is returning to Prague with a summer seasonal flight from Philadelphia onboard a Boeing 787-8 starting May 21, 2026. The airline has been on a blitz to promote the new service…
Self-proclaimed ‘celebrity pickleball coach’ Peter “Kobe” Nguyen turned getting caught vaping inflight into a viral spectacle when he filmed a heated exchange with the American Airlines flight attendant who caught him on a flight from Phoenix to San Francisco.
American Airlines announced several new long haul routes today, even though most of them aren’t actually new.
One part of the partnership that continues is that annual offer to Hyatt elites to try American status and vice versa.
Gary Leff is one of the foremost experts in the field of miles, points, and frequent business travel -- a topic he has covered since 2002.
Co-founder of frequent flyer community InsideFlyer.com, emcee of the Freddie Awards, and named one of the "World's Top Travel Experts" by Conde' Nast Traveler (2010-Present) Gary has been a guest on most major news media, profiled in several top print publications, and published broadly on the topic of consumer loyalty. More About Gary »
