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Old Jul 30, 2008 | 5:20 pm
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garycal
 
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Fresno, CA
Programs: AAdvantage Gold 1MM, United Gold
Posts: 141
Originally Posted by tripledip
I know I know, I should do the research and find this info myself, but there are 100 pages to go thru, and I've got an upcoming flight on AA, and it's 95 degrees and humid outside.

I'm Prem Exec on UA, is there a # to call to get them to bump my status from a total Zero on AA to a somebody?
I'm Premier Exec on UA, but when they killed the 500 mile minimum, I switched all my travel to AA. I called and asked about a status match and was told "we don't do that anymore, that has been replaced with the challenge program". Now I'm sure if I flew 250,000 BIS miles last year they would still status match, but it seems for United Premier Executive status, its a no-go.

The good thing, though, is that you get gold status with only 5,000 points (not miles, points), so I was able to do it in P class on a single trip between California and Missouri. Platinum is 10,000 points, so without some very creative routing its going to be multiple trips or something overseas.
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