Originally Posted by
gear02
[/B]I currently fly Continental but I have no status. I've asked them to confer silver out of goodwill, but obviously that didn't work. I was thinking of trying this with United but not sure if they'll be accepting of it. Based on the wiki, it seems that the optimal thing to do is do an AA challenge to Platinum and then status match it to the airline of my choice.
I'm not that familiar with AA, but I didn't think you could do the AA Challenge unless you had status at another airline. Is that correct? You should leave all options on the table, including DL. Not liking them seems like an odd reason. I get pretty good UG %'s as a GM. You can sign up for the AA cards with 75K bonus miles in another thread, get 150K miles, get status with AA, and then fly free wherever you want and have status. I'm getting the 150K AA miles, but I don't have status, so I'm sure no upgrades, free bags, or any other perks I get with DL.