American Express Membership Rewards - MR points = Elite status?

Hi everyone,

I've been a reader for a while and I recently caved and accepted the 50K points for Amex Gold. I've learned a ton from this forum and my thanks in advance to anyone who can answer my question. My question is if i decide to redeem the 50K points at say continental, these points are converted to miles. Do these miles count towards attaining elite status? That would be cool if it did :)

Again, thanks in advance for any comments

Matt

Do these miles count towards attaining elite status?

They don't, sadly enough.

What about lifetime elite?

What about lifetime elite?

:confused:

It doesn't help with elite, nor lifetime elite.

Only AA has a program on which non-elite miles works for a lifetime elite, but MR points can't be transferred directly to AA. When using another path to transfer them, will give you half the miles at best, so you need at least 2M MR-points for getting 1M on AA for lifetime status, but that will take some time.

For possibilities to convert, see http://www.webflyer.com/programs/mileage_converter/index.php

:confused:

It doesn't help with elite, nor lifetime elite.

Only AA has a program on which non-elite miles works for a lifetime elite, but MR points can't be transferred directly to AA. When using another path to transfer them, will give you half the miles at best, so you need at least 2M MR-points for getting 1M on AA for lifetime status, but that will take some time.

For possibilities to convert, see http://www.webflyer.com/programs/mileage_converter/index.php

I have been thinking about this a bit. What would happen if you use the Mileage Run Deals to isolate opportunities and then book using MR points? At what point is it a gain over Filtering the miles.

I believe transferred MR points do count towards at least current (non-lifetime) status with Priority Club hotels (Crowne Plaza, Holiday Inn, etc.).

I have been thinking about this a bit. What would happen if you use the Mileage Run Deals to isolate opportunities and then book using MR points? At what point is it a gain over Filtering the miles.
Are you asking about redeeming MR at $.01 per point, using it toward air travel? One must still do the butt-in-seat (BIS) flying to earn elite status, the same way one would if they paid for their ticket another way. Pretty exceptional to get ones cpm down below 2 cpm with any mileage run (I would say below 3 cpm, but I am not looking for an argument about what is "possible" when the stars are in perfect alignment), so how would starting with MR to pay for ticket be a better way to go about things?

If I have misapprehended what you have in mind, please correct me and explain.