Originally Posted by
LucyP
Do you mean that the miles you get with the credit card don't count toward gold status? Because I'm almost at Silver now, and so would get enough miles by getting the card, unless those miles aren't "preferred" and don't count?
Nope, they aren't preferred and they don't count.
Unless you spend 25K on the card in a calendar year, in which case 10K will count toward preferred.