TWA Ambassador club lifetime membership
Jan 10, 2001, 2:50 pm
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TWA Ambassador club lifetime membership
Does anyone know if the purchase of a lifetime ambassador club membership can still be bought? This would be an excellent asset since AA doesn't offer a lifetime membership (that I know of).
Jan 10, 2001, 3:11 pm
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You gotta wonder if they would be honored by AA even if they were.
Remember, AA is buying a company in bankruptcy proceedings, which gives a company all kinds of power to dump debt.
Or WORSE, they honor it at only the locations of existing Ambassador clubs, but not Admiral's Clubs --- but since you're flying on AA, you may not encounter as many Ambassador clubs outside STL, or at locations inconvenient to the AA gates...
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Remember, AA is buying a company in bankruptcy proceedings, which gives a company all kinds of power to dump debt.
Or WORSE, they honor it at only the locations of existing Ambassador clubs, but not Admiral's Clubs --- but since you're flying on AA, you may not encounter as many Ambassador clubs outside STL, or at locations inconvenient to the AA gates...
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"I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own."
Jan 10, 2001, 4:04 pm
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AA does indeed have a lifetime membership program.
However, I can now add my TWA one to my PanAm and Western lifetime collection (although I did get a Delta Lifetime from my Western.)
Perhaps I'll get a 2nd AA Lifetime from my TWA!
So far, my AA and UA lifetimes are out living them all......
However, I can now add my TWA one to my PanAm and Western lifetime collection (although I did get a Delta Lifetime from my Western.)
Perhaps I'll get a 2nd AA Lifetime from my TWA!
So far, my AA and UA lifetimes are out living them all......
Jan 10, 2001, 4:31 pm
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sdix,
American no longer has any lifetime memberships available. TWA does sell it, but I am not sure that I would buy one now (since Continental did not honor Eastern's lifetime passes purchased after their bankruptcy). Hopefully TWA will be honest as of now and let people if they think that they should be selling lifetime cards.
American no longer has any lifetime memberships available. TWA does sell it, but I am not sure that I would buy one now (since Continental did not honor Eastern's lifetime passes purchased after their bankruptcy). Hopefully TWA will be honest as of now and let people if they think that they should be selling lifetime cards.
Jan 10, 2001, 5:26 pm
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freakflyer is right, Eastern Ionosphere lifetime membership purchased before Chapter 11 were converted into lifetime President's Club membership, those who purchased after the bankruptcy were SOL.
Jan 10, 2001, 7:26 pm
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R,
Run, don'lt walk, to the phone and call Continental. It may be too late, but your card should have been converted to a lifetime President's Club card. And that will also get you into Northwest's club and America West's club.
FF
Run, don'lt walk, to the phone and call Continental. It may be too late, but your card should have been converted to a lifetime President's Club card. And that will also get you into Northwest's club and America West's club.
FF
Jan 10, 2001, 11:03 pm
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Thanks Tango. This makes a lot of sense. American must be awfully glad that they aren't picking up that liability also.
Can you find out if we can transfer 100k MR points into Aviators and get Platinum status?
Can you find out if we can transfer 100k MR points into Aviators and get Platinum status?
Jan 11, 2001, 10:00 am
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Rbarbour: Please let us know what you learn.
As I posted on another thread, I too had a Life membership in the EA Ionosphere Club purchased in the edarly 1970's. Some time after the demise of EA, CO offered to transfer this life membership in their Presidents Club if I made 4 (?) RT flights within 6 (?) months.
Unfortunately no CO routes and destinations were in my immediate travel plans; and (at that time) CO was the pits in service and EWR was about the same. So I passed up the offer.
I was chagrinned to later learn from a semi-retired friend from NJ now living in PHX that he simply bought four cheap (but refundable) PHX-LAS-PHX tickets, made photocopies and sent them to CO, and later cashed in the tickets. He is now a lifetime CO club member. I have only a possible collector's item EA plastic card!
As I posted on another thread, I too had a Life membership in the EA Ionosphere Club purchased in the edarly 1970's. Some time after the demise of EA, CO offered to transfer this life membership in their Presidents Club if I made 4 (?) RT flights within 6 (?) months.
Unfortunately no CO routes and destinations were in my immediate travel plans; and (at that time) CO was the pits in service and EWR was about the same. So I passed up the offer.
I was chagrinned to later learn from a semi-retired friend from NJ now living in PHX that he simply bought four cheap (but refundable) PHX-LAS-PHX tickets, made photocopies and sent them to CO, and later cashed in the tickets. He is now a lifetime CO club member. I have only a possible collector's item EA plastic card!
Jan 11, 2001, 10:51 am
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Members who have flown 1 million miles with TWA are entitled to lifetime Platinum membership. Complimentary access is then available for a member and companion. I suppose the million dollar question would be, what would it translate to in the AAdvantage program?
Jan 12, 2001, 12:47 am
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Originally posted by Old Gold:
freakflyer is right, Eastern Ionosphere lifetime membership purchased before Chapter 11 were converted into lifetime President's Club membership, those who purchased after the bankruptcy were SOL.
freakflyer is right, Eastern Ionosphere lifetime membership purchased before Chapter 11 were converted into lifetime President's Club membership, those who purchased after the bankruptcy were SOL.
I was also a EA Ionosphere Lifetime member. I didn't receive any offer for converting to President's CLub.
Who can I contact now?????
Thanks.
Jan 12, 2001, 12:22 pm
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Million Milers under AAdvantage are entitled to lifetime Platinum (2nd tier). This does not get you lounge access, except on day of travel for international itineraries on a OneWorld carrier.
Jan 12, 2001, 12:43 pm
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When Continental eliminated the the Infinite Elite status from the OnePass literature in 1994 they did not inform members who had qualified for Gold Elite in 1993 that they could continue to meet the qualification requirements, you had to ask. I'm told that it's no longer being given, even to those who may have qualified. I was also told that you had to actually fly the published milage requirements, if you were given comp status for one or more years it didn't count, no exceptions were made.