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Old Jan 30, 2012 | 12:34 am
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amolkold
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Nowadays, Silver status can be bought with an AMEX DL CC. $99/year gets you Zone 2 boarding (same) + 1 free checked bag (same). The only thing you're missing is 25% bonus miles (which at 25-50K a year is only 6-12K miles) and upgrades (do you even get upgrades as a silver?).

I find these things would be the same across all the legacies ... credit card holding = most of the lowest tier elite's benefits. Not worth an MR that's more than the price of the credit card.
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