American Airlines Award Map Glitch: Fly To ‘Retardville’ And ‘Allahu Akbar’
The American Airlines award map shows where you can fly based on a starting city and number of available miles that you specify. It’s a tool that’s been around for about a dozen years, and is useful if you want to see where you can go (for example) for 6,500 miles in coach.
When you search for flights you’ll see a map of available cities including some interesting destinations,
- Retardville (Los Angeles)
- Penis (Paris)
- Allahu Akbar (London
AA Award Map shows London as “Allahu Akbar” and Paris as “Penis”
byu/Frequent-Butterfly33 inamericanairlines
Pittsburgh was also ‘Shitville,’ a “missed opportunity to write Shittsburgh.”
It seems that American Airlines didn’t license a map for this tool, and is instead pulling OpenStreetMap tiles. OpenStreetMap is a user-edited tool like Wikipedia and anyone can update, fix, or… vandalize it. Someone keeps changing city names, and other users revert them, in an ongoing battle.
(HT: Points and PDBs and @PokeTraveling)
