A Million MIles and All I got were these lousy bag tags.

My American Airlines Million Miler welcome packet finally arrived. What a let down! And I'll warn you in advance I am bitter. I do admit I had false expectations of celebration and grandeur on the part of AA. Like maybe the doorbell would ring (a la Publisher's Clearing House) and there would be the American AAdvantage crew with a marching band and a jumbo size commemorative tchotchke. Instead the mailman dropped an AA envelope in the mailbox one day with all the other junk mail and bills.

In honor of my incredible achievement (so they said in the pre-printed form letter) I am bestowed with luggage tags that include the million-mile "logo" and eight segment upgrades. The upgrades are nice but if they had looked at my account summary they would have noticed there are like 20 upgrades sitting there that I can't use. Now I have 28 that will never clear. The paper stock that the form letter was printed on was probably the most expensive part of the whole deal. Blah.

Behold -- the luggage tag


Maybe two million miles will be better. Maybe?