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How did I get XXX status? (2013 consolidated thread)
Hi All,
At the end of FY12, I had ~48k preferred qualifying miles and around 30 segments. I just missed gold. Today I check my account and it says I made platinum. How did this happen?
For what it's worth, I have the US Airways Mastercard
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Were you platinum last year? Mine says Chairman (I was chairman last year but only earned 50k miles this year) but I assume it will say that until Feb 28th when my status officially expires.
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Originally Posted by NYTA
Were you platinum last year? Mine says Chairman (I was chairman last year but only earned 50k miles this year) but I assume it will say that until Feb 28th when my status officially expires.
No - this was the first year I achieved any type of status.
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Interesting. Mine says Chairman until 2/28 but I wonder if there's some way I can find out. If I'm staying Chairman I might stick with US rather than switching to UA like I had originally planned.
Interesting. Mine says Chairman until 2/28 but I wonder if there's some way I can find out. If I'm staying Chairman I might stick with US rather than switching to UA like I had originally planned.
NYTA - are you doing status match with UA? I'm just wondering how it works, since I'll be leaving US after 16 years of loyalty for UA if US decides to merge with AA.
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Originally Posted by NYTA
Interesting. Mine says Chairman until 2/28 but I wonder if there's some way I can find out. If I'm staying Chairman I might stick with US rather than switching to UA like I had originally planned.
Where do you see how long your status is good? Under my account it just says Platinum.
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Under "Your Account" there's a section called "Quick Links" with a link called "re-print your card". When I do this it says Chairman's Preferred valid until 2/28/2013. I assume if I got renewed to Chairman instead of Gold like I was expecting, it would say valid until 2/28/2014.
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Originally Posted by bwiadca
NYTA - are you doing status match with UA? I'm just wondering how it works, since I'll be leaving US after 16 years of loyalty for UA if US decides to merge with AA.
I status matched to silver on CO a few years ago and then never flew them and now UA won't let me match again within 5 years, even though I'm Platinum on Delta and Gold on US.
If I leave US it will be because most of the flights I want to take on LH, LX and TK either don't earn miles or earn them at a lower rate, and I found the Chairman certificates to be unusable from TLV-PHL which is where I would typically want to use them. I did have close to a 100% upgrade rate on US domestic flights which was nice but I care more about earning points for long-haul in Y.
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Originally Posted by NYTA
Under "Your Account" there's a section called "Quick Links" with a link called "re-print your card". When I do this it says Chairman's Preferred valid until 2/28/2013. I assume if I got renewed to Chairman instead of Gold like I was expecting, it would say valid until 2/28/2014.
Hm. When I do that it says Platinum until 2/28/2014. Wonder how I managed to pull this off. Of course this comes on the heels of me traveling less in 2013
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Originally Posted by xtremeski2001
Hm. When I do that it says Platinum until 2/28/2014. Wonder how I managed to pull this off. Of course this comes on the heels of me traveling less in 2013
I'm certain that if you call and ask they'll take care of it for you. Or perhaps by posting here it will get resolved
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Originally Posted by xtremeski2001
How did this happen?
There's no publicly available criteria for this sort of thing, but we've always assumed it to be some combination of:
Higher fares/fare classes purchased, even if a low number of flights
Using fares associated with corporate contracts that US cares the most about
Ancillary spend (maybe)
Historical spend
Purchasing a bunch of full fare Envoy tickets (this has triggered mid-year early status bumps for some colleagues in recent years)
They know how much you spend on them and clearly Marketing runs some kind of analysis this time of year to try to retain/incent certain customers to stick around or increase spend further. In many cases, the outcome is positive for the airline.
I status matched to silver on CO a few years ago and then never flew them and now UA won't let me match again within 5 years, even though I'm Platinum on Delta and Gold on US.
I heard from UA that they won't status match or challenge for other star alliance carriers. Are there significant known exceptions for this year? Or I guess you were assuming you'd get the challenge/match from the delta status?
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Originally Posted by jondysse
I heard from UA that they won't status match or challenge for other star alliance carriers. Are there significant known exceptions for this year? Or I guess you were assuming you'd get the challenge/match from the delta status?
They are doing a promo for DL flyers to match but I'm afraid I'm ineligible for another couple of years. Really stupid on their part, in my opinion. As much as I keep trying to join UA and spend money with them they keep sending me elsewhere.
