miffSC

Nothing they have done so far has been kind or 'fair' for this side of the aisle... so, I am not expecting too much. I've been spending my time trying to reconcile myself to pretty much flying in the back of the plane from now on.

Mr. Vker

If there is no "buy up", any word on how long existing status will carry into next year? February as normal or IIRC was it extended? Soft landing?

heyeaglefn

Status is through February. You can buy up through AA through June so after it combines you can buy up.

CLTRob

I'm currently Gold through 2/2015. I won't have enough miles/segments for Silver next year. Since the merger of Dividend Miles and AAdvantage won't happen until 3/1/2015, will I be able to buy-up or renew Gold status in March 2015?

phlwookie

Before you all go cry in a corner, there is hope. From
http://viewfromthewing.boardingarea....iles-tomorrow/ there is this:

So for those who won't be able to do enough mileage/segment running there is at least still hope.

pkr529

This will not help me since I will be slightly over 75,000 PQM's. Looks like I will get burned for qualifying as low Platinum. I should have stopped at 50,000 PQM's and tried for lower tier status on United or Delta.

Superguy

So what will they do if you're falling to a lower tier?

Example: I'm a CP this year, but my travel was cut this year. I'm looking at making GP (or AA plat) if I can do a MR in the next month or so Could I just buy up to gold/plat for next year?

heyeaglefn

Look at the AA chart. If you are within a range of the next tier, you can buy up at that cost.

Superguy

Right, I get that, but it's a bit problematic on US. Historically, you couldn't "buy up" until you fell to the lower level first. So you couldn't "buy down" to the GP from CP until you fell to SP first.

Segments

The AA plan allows buy until next June or July so that everyone can see what the impact of merging accounts will have on your status. We haven't seen the US plan for buy up so hopefully it will also align to accommodate the merging of accounts.

skelzer

Let's just hope they recognize the additional segments currently required on the US side (US 120 vs AA 100). As it stands with the new AA buy-up, a member with 85 segments could use the max buy-up of 15 segments to retain EXP status. If 15 is the max segment buy-up on US side, it would do nothing to help a member with the same 85 segments. At this point, so close to the merger, ALL new policies should treat activity from travelers from both sides as equal. Fingers crossed.

CLTRob

Spoke to an Elite desk rep the other day who informed me that US won't be offering a "Buy Up to Preferred" for 2015 and if you don't have the miles by 12/31/2014, you won't have Elite status in 2015. I find that hard to believe since they are currently offering it over on the AA side. However, it does anger me that they rolled out the buy-up, boost, renewal, or what ever you want to call it, at AA but they keep their US Elite's hanging. If you are one company, you should roll-out to everyone at one time. Another poor management decision!

Another thing that angers me is the fact that US is now with OW and codesharing with BA; however, you can't book CLT to ORY, using Open Skies, and you can't book BA, World Traveler Plus, on even the BA website. I take that back, you can book Open Skies via US site but more than double the price . . . If you try to book BA from CLT so you can purchase Premium Economy, all flights are on US or AA on the transatlantic flight; therefore, no Premium Economy. Another poor management decision.

Well, these events have helped me make up my mind. So long to the "new" AA. I've decided not to do the "buy-up" if offered since we are being kept hanging, and I'll be canceling the $450 per year AA Executive card. Now I won't have to be upset about another poor AA management decision . . . I won't have to sit in AA's 3-3-3 and 3-4-3 configuration. The majority of the reviews reveal a horrible experience.

Delta/AF/KLM and Virgin Atlantic are looking very good and will be getting my business going foreard! Good luck AA.

ubernostrum

If you think phone agents have any idea what's planned or can give you the kind of confirmation you need to make expensive decisions, you need to think again. The number of "a phone agent told me..." posts that have turned out to have no relation to what actually happened is simply staggering.

Hokie Gator Flyer

Still nothing on the website about Buy Up (still says to check back later), but they now show Chairman's only needing 100,000 miles or 100 segments for 2014 (2015 qualifying) for just this year. There is another post on this with a link to the website.

2Tall4Y

Wait for it....