Andrew KimmelVerified account

Dear @AmericanAir, After arriving back to LA from Indonesia, I was $275 EQDs under (yet 25K miles over) from maintaining status. You asked me to pay $1875 (?!) to keep status, so instead I booked a $400 rt ticket to Mexico for 24 hrs. Here’s how my fucking night went...

I was short 600 miles on United to make 1K again this year and made a quick turnaround run to Atlanta. My daughters wanted to know why I didn’t make more of the trip and I said, “Because mileage runs are the sort of trips where if anything can go wrong it will.” Proves my point.

Flights like these really don't help with the climate crisis...

The plane was going whether or not he was on it.

That’s absolutely false when scaled up to many people making these trips. They have to use bigger planes and add more routes to compensate. But I guess whatever helps you sleep at night.

(The main problem here is with the airline demanding an actual trip be made. That IS outrageous and IS definitely needlessly wasteful and contributes to climate change...) also, any additional weight means greater fuel burn.