In my opinion one of the hardest to obtain, based on annual levels and not on revenue or "by invitation only" is the Lufthansa HON Circle. You need to accrue 600.000 HON qualifying miles in two years.
This is the one I was going to name. Some of the published benefits are pretty crazy. In Frankfurt, you can check in at the First Class terminal, which is nice and all, but then you proceed outside where a chauffer drives you across in a Mercedes or Porche directly to the aircraft for boarding, which is awesome.
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Any card on Virgin Galactic would be the most prestigious.
You are of course correct.
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What you probably are looking after are the CO* and United GS-type levels.
CO*'s are pretty impressive to me (they are almost automatically CO Plats).
I don't know what the CO* card is. I have the Presidential Plus card but it doesn't get me any extra miles. Is it something you earn or something you pay for? Thanks..
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I don't know what the CO* card is. I have the Presidential Plus card but it doesn't get me any extra miles. Is it something you earn or something you pay for? Thanks..
It is not a card, but a designation that one attains by generating considerable revenue for the airline.
As in a corporate travel agent who would significantly affect the CO bottom line by only buying CO tickets for their personnel. Is that what you mean?
Lots of discussions in the CO forum... basically, it's a notation attached to those customers who bring in some defined percentage of revenue over some defined period of time. No card, but does show on the flight manifest.
In my opinion one of the hardest to obtain, based on annual levels and not on revenue or "by invitation only" is the Lufthansa HON Circle. You need to accrue 600.000 HON qualifying miles in two years.
I second that. You could also add SQ Solitaire PPS Club card.
As of by-invitation only for European airlines you have (to name a few) :
- AF/KL : Club 2000 / Skipper
- BA : Premier
The latter being much more exclusive and providing many more benefits than the former. There are 12,000 Club 2000 members for instance... far from the 2000 initial members of the "Club", even if KL Skippers have being integrated since the merger of FFPs
