Buying your way into 1MM
Sep 21, 2005, 4:48 am
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Buying your way into 1MM
FT,
I tried to do a search, but the search function appears to friscalambalanated. Anyway, I am at 998,400 lifetime miles, but I do not intend to credit miles to AA for the rest of the year (going for the AA EXP and CX Diamond bifecta). Still, I would like the nice luggage tags. If I bought 2,000 miles, would those 2,000 miles be added to the lifetime miles total, or is it only flown, bonuses, and CC miles that count here?
I tried to do a search, but the search function appears to friscalambalanated. Anyway, I am at 998,400 lifetime miles, but I do not intend to credit miles to AA for the rest of the year (going for the AA EXP and CX Diamond bifecta). Still, I would like the nice luggage tags. If I bought 2,000 miles, would those 2,000 miles be added to the lifetime miles total, or is it only flown, bonuses, and CC miles that count here?
Sep 21, 2005, 5:26 am
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All miles, including purchased, should count for lifetime miles total
Sep 21, 2005, 6:22 am
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All miles, including non-flying partner bonuses (hotels, rental cars, flowers, etc.) count toward 1MM/2MM status.
Sep 21, 2005, 7:02 am
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Originally Posted by richarddd
dupe.
Sep 21, 2005, 8:19 am
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Originally Posted by ricktoronto
You didn't have to call him a dupe.
.Cheers.
Sep 21, 2005, 8:21 am
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Originally Posted by Pickles
(going for the AA EXP and CX Diamond bifecta)
Last edited by Blumie; Sep 21, 2005 at 8:22 am Reason: It's amazing what you can type when your fingers don't listen to your head
Sep 21, 2005, 8:56 am
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What's your hurry?
Unless there's something magic about having 1MM by Dec. 31, why the rush? You'll get the same status and the same card if you finish in January.
There are regular rumo(u)rs about AA taking lifetime status away or making it harder to earn in the future. So far they've all been false. Given how much money AA makes selling miles to its partners, and how this perk makes them more attractive, I don't think you have to worry - at least not for longer than it will take you to get 1,600 AA miles in the normal course of events.
There are regular rumo(u)rs about AA taking lifetime status away or making it harder to earn in the future. So far they've all been false. Given how much money AA makes selling miles to its partners, and how this perk makes them more attractive, I don't think you have to worry - at least not for longer than it will take you to get 1,600 AA miles in the normal course of events.
Sep 21, 2005, 9:41 am
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I'm at 1,858,246 and will add to thier incentive by purchasing ~30k miles on Jan1st (already did 40k this year) to make Lifetime Platinum before any chance of those nasty rumors becoming true this coming Spring.
So add that to thier benefit...~2.5 cents per mile
Ok - many will call me silly (or worse) for throwing money around like that but it would be just my luck for the rumors to come true this year and potentially see lifetime double miles and lounge access on international trips slip away from my grasp...
So add that to thier benefit...~2.5 cents per mile
Ok - many will call me silly (or worse) for throwing money around like that but it would be just my luck for the rumors to come true this year and potentially see lifetime double miles and lounge access on international trips slip away from my grasp...
Originally Posted by Efrem
...There are regular rumo(u)rs about AA taking lifetime status away or making it harder to earn in the future. So far they've all been false. Given how much money AA makes selling miles to its partners, and how this perk makes them more attractive, I don't think you have to worry - at least not for longer than it will take you to get 1,600 AA miles in the normal course of events.
Sep 21, 2005, 11:20 am
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One thing worth considering, IMHO.
There's absolutely no doubt-- no a shred of it-- from what I know, that AAdvantage was very actively considering the limitation on future life-status (presumable to BIS miles only, bringing over current totals as-is (last part speculative.)) No doubt whatsoever. I assume it still will happen at some point, for sure, personally.
Why they didn't do it at that time was, from what I can see, was simply lack of funds to make the nesc. programming changes (like the e-VIPs accounting set-up and many other things.)
FWIW.
There's absolutely no doubt-- no a shred of it-- from what I know, that AAdvantage was very actively considering the limitation on future life-status (presumable to BIS miles only, bringing over current totals as-is (last part speculative.)) No doubt whatsoever. I assume it still will happen at some point, for sure, personally.
Why they didn't do it at that time was, from what I can see, was simply lack of funds to make the nesc. programming changes (like the e-VIPs accounting set-up and many other things.)
FWIW.
Sep 21, 2005, 11:31 am
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So join AA-Idine and get the miles
A few dinners and wine....you're on your way!
Sep 21, 2005, 12:05 pm
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Originally Posted by oldpenny16
A few dinners and wine....you're on your way!
Sep 21, 2005, 2:43 pm
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Many sources for miles
There are so many choices to get AA miles - buying at $0.025 is just one of them. Even if you credit flight miles to CX how about others such as car rentals, hotels, office supplies, etc. Look at the various boards here and you'll see too many choices. 2000 miles is not that hard to get. You can even add a small segment run to your flt plans and get that kind of miles.
Sep 22, 2005, 12:18 am
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Originally Posted by JonNYC
One thing worth considering, IMHO.
There's absolutely no doubt-- no a shred of it-- from what I know, that AAdvantage was very actively considering the limitation on future life-status (presumable to BIS miles only, bringing over current totals as-is (last part speculative.)) No doubt whatsoever. I assume it still will happen at some point, for sure, personally.
Why they didn't do it at that time was, from what I can see, was simply lack of funds to make the nesc. programming changes (like the e-VIPs accounting set-up and many other things.)
FWIW.
There's absolutely no doubt-- no a shred of it-- from what I know, that AAdvantage was very actively considering the limitation on future life-status (presumable to BIS miles only, bringing over current totals as-is (last part speculative.)) No doubt whatsoever. I assume it still will happen at some point, for sure, personally.
Why they didn't do it at that time was, from what I can see, was simply lack of funds to make the nesc. programming changes (like the e-VIPs accounting set-up and many other things.)
FWIW.