Turkish Airlines Miles&Smiles - does TK offer Gold status for life

I've been hearing lately a lot about american companies offering gold status for life when you fly some huge number of miles. I don't know details,

but As I'm about to hit Gold on TK, after my flight from SNA to IAD on United in a week. I wanted to know if TK offered such Gold status for life

If TK doesn't, then I was thinking that after this trip and my gold on Turkish, I start using a UA or AA (depending on details) account for status and hope that I can hit gold for life (again don't know what the details are for it)

I've been hearing lately a lot about american companies offering gold status for life when you fly some huge number of miles. I don't know details,

but As I'm about to hit Gold on TK, after my flight from SNA to IAD on United in a week. I wanted to know if TK offered such Gold status for life

If TK doesn't, then I was thinking that after this trip and my gold on Turkish, I start using a UA or AA (depending on details) account for status and hope that I can hit gold for life (again don't know what the details are for it)

If you are very interested in lifetime status, then you may want to consider Asiana. They will give you lifetime *A gold at 500,000 miles, and they credit all EQM. In contrast, the two U.S. *A airlines, UA and US, are BIS only and US doesn't even have the option of *A gold for life.

If you are very interested in lifetime status, then you may want to consider Asiana. They will give you lifetime *A gold at 500,000 miles, and they credit all EQM. In contrast, the two U.S. *A airlines, UA and US, are BIS only and US doesn't even have the option of *A gold for life.

United you can get up to Global Services (super elite, normally invitation only tier) by flying 4 Million miles BIS. Though it's actually a GS lite, you don't get systemwide upgrades with it.

is that mean Asiana and or American would be a better choice?

Simple answer, NO.

You have been on Ft for over 4 years, there is a thing called SEARCH, if you do so on the various Americn carriers that you speak of you will find at least 5000 threads on the subject that could tell you every bit of information that you would ever want to know.

One note, do you think it really matters to you? You speak of just hitting gold, presumably for the first time. Do you really value going after a "lifetime" perk which at your current rate you would only hit the bottom rung of in about 30 years?

is that mean Asiana and or American would be a better choice?

It all depends on what you want with lifetime status. Personally, I wouldn't let lifetime status determine how I fly, because it takes so long to achieve. It is quite possible that the programs will be dramatically devalued by the time you get there.

If you do want lifetime status, I would recommend the following programs:

Asiana: 500k *A miles = *G
Korean: 500k ST miles = E+

UA: 1 million UA miles = UA Prem. Gold/*G
DL: 2 million ST miles = DL Gold/E+
AA: 2 million OW miles = AA Plat/OW Saph.

U.S. status will give you U.S. domestic upgrades, while international lifetime status is easier to get and gives you lounge access on U.S. domestic flights

It all depends on what you want with lifetime status. Personally, I wouldn't let lifetime status determine how I fly, because it takes so long to achieve. It is quite possible that the programs will be dramatically devalued by the time you get there.

If you do want lifetime status, I would recommend the following programs:

Asiana: 500k *A miles = *G
Korean: 500k ST miles = E+

UA: 1 million UA miles = UA Prem. Gold/*G
DL: 2 million ST miles = DL Gold/E+
AA: 2 million OW miles = AA Plat/OW Saph.

U.S. status will give you U.S. domestic upgrades, while international lifetime status is easier to get and gives you lounge access on U.S. domestic flights

Thanks DCAA for the details. I'm no were near 500k miles yet. But since the Amex corporate card should be used for everything I do, and I get all the points form it. and looks like Amex offers a card through BofA that is partnering with Asiana (for now it might not mean anything but maybe eventually i can transfer points off even if its not a BofA issued card).

But i guess I will let time tell, since I also have miles with Turkish and miles points with Chase Saphire.
I will start collecting hotel points too that I can transfer to miles too.

lol too many programs to try to figuring out at once.

Only BIS miles (or possible MQM's or premium multipliers) towards MM status on ANY AIRLINE. So your cc miles, hotel miles, whatever mean ABSOLUTELY nothing towards and airlines MM status.