"To reach the lowest Gold status tier, you'll ned 25,000 miles, but as user onenotesam pointed out, this is the only FF program where your miles earned from any source can get you elite status"

Anyone else think they should stop putting random people's comments in the actual article without checking the validity? It is kind of true, although not the way they said it. It is I believe the only program where any miles earned count towards lifetime elite status, but not your yearly elite status. If it counted towards yearly elite status I would be EXP every year...