Originally Posted by
VoodooYYC
I am also envisioning the "I have 29k status miles, but they are all on AC. Shouldn't they give me Elite anyways?"...
Actually that's not crazy. The way other airlines accomplish the same thing is by having extra miles such as DEQM for flying their own metal, then having higher thresholds. So it's about equally easy to reach those thresholds if you fly their metal but harder if you're flying other airlines.
Hm, that raises a question. If I book a flight marketed by another airline but AC metal does it count towards the 10k? What if I book an AC flight on non-AC metal, does that count?
For that matter, what if I fly LH on a route where AC and LH revenue-share. Surely that should be just as good as flying on an AC flight from their point of view.