Programs: AA lifetime GOLD, thanks FT, AARP senior member
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Lifetime status: just made Gold/Platinum for life! shout & brag etc. consolidated
(This post is a clone of the first post in the thread, and has been replaced with the basic information about lifetime status.)
American Airlines is perhaps unique among the airlines in offering lifetime elite status to its members based on the number of lifetime miles earned from any source. (N.B. this is an undocumented benefit, and could change without notice.)
Basically, here's how it works: according to miles ever earned from any source (yes, credit cards, EQM, bonus miles, exchange transfers in from other programs, etc. all count, and regardless of whether they have been used or not,) one can earn lifetime AAdvantage status. (This is explained in the Wiki - link.)
1 million miles - Lifetime AAdvantage Gold status
(and 8 500 mile domestic upgrade "stickers," unless you live n an area where the "stickers can not be used, in which case you will be awarded 4 eVIP systemwide upgrades;
2 million miles - Lifetime AAdvantage Platinum status
and 4 eVIPs valid for the remainder of the current, and the following, status years, regardless of domicile
every million miles thereafter
4 more eVIPs, new status and 2 more luggage tags
You are also sent a congratulatory letter, as well as a new AAdvantage status card and two luggage tags - both reflecting current status and embossed with a logo with the millions of miles one has earned over their lifetime.
The highest number of miles by one person earned seems to be 34 million miles.
Last edited by JDiver; Jul 13, 08 at 2:30 pm.
Reason: replaced duplicate post with basic information
Programs: AA lifetime GOLD, thanks FT, AARP senior member
Posts: 13,811
Lifetime status: just made Gold/Platinum for life! shout & brag etc. consolidated
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Originally Posted by Johnosan
Last year I clocked up 148,018 in the seat miles but this year my target is expected to only be around 95,000.
Yes must get one of those credit cards that earns AA points - to think all the miles I could have achieved in the last three years makes me wince
I didn't know about the MM thingy until I joined this forum. If I had I would certainly of pulled my finger out and got a different CC back then.
I'm literally hours from crossing over an AA million. Watching my account all day long for postings. I wish to thank all those who helped me along the way. Thanks to advice on FT I've gotten over 500,000 AA miles in less than 5 years via all sorts of flights, purchases, programs and bonuses. Keep them coming! I miss the Kellogg's promotions!
Yes, if the usual batch processing appens tomorrow as expected, you are hours away! Now that it's a hot nasty summer, you have to find big lots of low-priced Dannon water.
Congratulations!!!
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Originally Posted by oldpenny16
I'm literally hours from crossing over an AA million. Watching my account all day long for postings. I wish to thank all those who helped me along the way. Thanks to advice on FT I've gotten over 500,000 AA miles in less than 5 years via all sorts of flights, purchases, programs and bonuses. Keep them coming! I miss the Kellogg's promotions!
ROTFL! I post this, the dreaded and obnoxious ad box pops up with a Laser Hair Removal ad? Too much! I'm not quite a billiard ball, but headed in that direction! Great marketing!
__________________ Lend a hand up with Kiva; far more than a hand out.
I just crossed 4-million miles this week. I've been a mileage hog for years now, starting with a 100,000 mile bonus promotion if one flew 5 OneWorld partners. Ah, what we do for miles...
Programs: AA lifetime GOLD, thanks FT, AARP senior member
Posts: 13,811
Only one of my postings came in over night, so I'm still a few miles short
Yes, what we do for miles! Lands' End has double miles on AA eshopping, so I'm going to buy some cotten sheets. Every little bit helps toward the NEXT million. I sure hope it get that million today.
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Ashburn, VA
Programs: AA EXPLAT, 2MM lifetime, only 21 months to earn the second million! SPG PLT
Posts: 1,530
Making 1MM!!!!
With an afternoon mileage post, I crested 1MM this morning. As others have posted here before, my mileage accumulation rate skyrocketed when I found FT.
I posted some time ago in the DC Happy Hour Thread that I would host another Happy Hour when I crossed the threshold:
After 22 years of leisure travel, my mother hit the 2,000,000 mile mark today - just a few days after her 73rd birthday! She is currently Platinum so she will retain her status for her lifetime or the lifetime of the AAdvantage program.
Almost all of her miles were earned through BIS miles and elite bonus miles; she has been Platinum for the past twelve years and was Gold for three years before that.
I cannot wait for her VIP upgrades to appear; she has promised me two of them. iI is only fair since I shared two of mine with her when I hit 2,000,000 miles five years ago.
