{"id":1982,"date":"2021-07-14T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=1982"},"modified":"2023-04-18T12:26:34","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T18:26:34","slug":"aa-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/14\/aa-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"AA Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bet you thought the title was going to be WednesdAAy, right? I gotta mix it up sometimes, sorry.<\/p>\n<h4>Status Matches<\/h4>\n<p>Hyatt &amp; AA have had a strange partnership for a few years, and now you can leverage each to get reduced requirements for status at the other by September 30th. Just make sure you delay registration until a couple of days before travel to give your self as much time as possible to finish the challenges. To take advantage of them, <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com\/i18n\/aadvantage-program\/elite-status\/elite-offers.jsp\">link your Hyatt and AAdvantage accounts<\/a> if needed, then:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com\/loyalty\/login?uri=%2Floyalty%2Flogin&amp;previousPage=%2Faadvantage-program%2Fprofile%2Fpromotions&amp;continueUrl=%2Faadvantage-program%2Fprofile%2Fpromotions\">Register here <\/a>for an AA 90 day status challenge if you have any Hyatt status at all. My status offer:\n<ul>\n<li>Gold for 6,000 paid flown miles or 7 segments, and $700 EQD spend<\/li>\n<li>Platinum for 12,000 paid flown miles or 14 segments, and $1,500 EQD spend<\/li>\n<li>Platinum Pro for 18,000 paid flown miles or 21 segments, and $2,300 EQD spend<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/world.hyatt.com\/content\/gp\/en\/rewards\/american-airlines\/fast-track.html\">Register here<\/a> for a Hyatt 90 day status challenge if you have any AA status at all. Everyone gets:\n<ul>\n<li>Explorist for 10 nights<\/li>\n<li>Globalist for 20 nights<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now, let\u2019s turn off the blogger\/bloggee relationship and just talk about this like friends:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AA Gold status is really like Silver at any other airline, it\u2019s good for a free checked bag and the ability to pick the second worst seat instead of the worst seat on the plane.<\/li>\n<li>If you want upgrades when flying AA, Platinum Pro or above is pretty much the only way you have a real chance, the others will just be dashed hopes and dreams, which sounds a lot like AA.<\/li>\n<li>Hyatt Explorist isn\u2019t worth much at all either. It will get you a couple of bottles of water if you\u2019re lucky, and you\u2019ll get a 2:00 PM checkout, but spoiler alert \u2014 if you ask nicely, you can almost always get a 2:00 PM checkout anyway so, enjoy your water I guess?<\/li>\n<li>Hyatt Globalist is worth it if you travel a lot and use it. One of my dirty, shameful secrets is that I\u2019ve been top tier at Hyatt for 9 years, and I don\u2019t plan on letting that change anytime soon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>AAdvatange Reduced Mileage Awards<\/h4>\n<p>These have always been a great deal for Citi AA cardholders, and like any great deal, it dies. <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/dannydealguru.com\/reduced-mileage-awards-ending-soon\/\">AA is killing off reduced milage awards<\/a> on October 1, 2021. See if you can eek any value out of this if you still have a Citi AA card, but keep the next point in mind.<\/p>\n<h4>AA Sticks it to Flight Attendants<\/h4>\n<p>AA made a deal with many of its flight attendants to take either one or two year leaves of absence during the height of the pandemic, but now <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paddleyourownkanoo.com\/2021\/07\/13\/american-airlines-recalls-all-flight-attendants-from-leave-will-hire-new-crew-to-avoid-shortage\/\">they\u2019re making their flight attendants come back early<\/a> because they\u2019re anticipating huge staffing shortages during the holidays this year. As you think about those holiday plans, make sure you\u2019re going in eyes wide open to make sure you\u2019re not left strAAnded (I couldn\u2019t help it) by a crew shortage at AA; I expect we\u2019ll run into holiday problems, especially at smaller outstAAtions.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-editorskit-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1983\" height=\"280\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/aa-slide.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/aa-slide.png 420w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/aa-slide-300x200.png 300w\" width=\"420\"\/><figcaption>With AA staffing shortages, who will be there to tow AA\u2019s planes to the gate after they slide off of the runway?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bet you thought the title was going to be WednesdAAy, right? I gotta mix it up sometimes, sorry. Status Matches Hyatt &amp; AA have<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":2,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[60,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airlines","category-travel-hacking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1982"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7250,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982\/revisions\/7250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}