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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]American tends to have more domestic flights out of DCA than any other airline. My spouse does lots of domestic flights to the South and Midwest; American has the most direct flights in/out of DCA to those destinations. Even with 10 roundtrips last year, she was nowhere near getting the lowest level of status with American (Gold)[/quote]

Yeah I don't think people understand how the status game has changed.  It's all about spending $$$$ on tickets, so if you are traveling on a $300-400 roundtrip ticket once a month, it won't be close to get status. And even if you get low or mid- level status, you will NEVER get upgrades.

The most important thing with any level of status is higher priority for rebooking when there are weather issues.  Most other things aren't worth that much really unless you/your company spends a boatload and you get the highest or 2nd highest levels.

It's generally not worth concentrating on one airline if all you can achieve is low level status, if that means you are going to be adding stops to trips, or taking flights at bad times, etc.  [/quote]

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