Originally Posted by
kaminski6
Okay, so I mentioned earlier I had 100k points post already in January '13. Well I have 4 flights scheduled already and chose not to pay for priority boarding as I assumed I was automatically an "A list customer" since I am well over 35k points. I called now to ask when I would receive my priority boarding ticket for being an A list customer... and the gentelman said I do not have a list status, and that the 100k points I have in bonus do not count towards it... Also leading me to believe once my other 50k bonus hits I will not earn a CP either. Is that true. Was this the case for many of you? Any ideas?
You should read the WN FAQ, laboriously put together by a number of volunteers. All this stuff and a ton besides is spelled out clearly. There are three kinds of WN points ("regular," Tier-Qualifying, and Companion-Pass-qualifying), and any given earning method could yield one, two, or three types of them.
Flying gets you all three kinds. Credit card spend gives you 2 of them, except if you push over a $10K increment with the Premier card, in which you get some of the third kind. Car rental/hotel may give you 2 kinds on part of them and one on the other. It is somewhat complex.
When I mentioned that 150K+ in a year from 3 CCs was overkill, I was referring to the fact that anything over 110K in a calendar year gets you nothing other than the points for travel.
Had you saved the third 50K for a future year, it would have given you almost half of yet another Companion Pass. That is a lot of value.